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Smithsonian Gets Military UAVs
NetworkWorld is reporting that a new exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is featuring some of the military's more prominent UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). In addition to the vehicles themselves, a large number of supporting technologies are also on display. "Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used by all four military branches for missions ranging from reconnaissance and surveillance to attack and each branch is represented in this exhibit: Predator, DarkStar, X-45A (Air Force); Shadow 200 (Army); Dragon Eye (Marine Corps); and Pioneer (Navy)."
War is just man being territorial, just like all the other beasts in nature. If a male lion enters another male lion's domain he will be expelled with excessive force. Animals make war just as much as men, if not more. The major difference is animals are just a lot less efficient at it and a lot more open. Business is war too, fighting over the territory of another, leaving hundreds of thousands without jobs, a crashed economy or any number of other problems.
The main problem with the US currently is that it sees the entire world as its territory. If oil exists, we own it. We may use business to own it, or we may use destruction to own it but both are just tools for defending our domain and capturing the domains of others. Nerds, who have a much higher intelligence on average, should understand this more than the common man. War is just a part of nature. You can't eradicate it. You can only filter it through a new medium (i.e. business).
10/21 The rest of the world, in a "surprise" strike, nukes the US back to the stone age, and then, for a good measure, again, back to the primordial slime age. All US citizens abroad, all their spouses, children and anyone who says a word of sympathy towards them are then hunted down, tried, and duly executed.
Following which the world takes a few decades to get over the latest of the failed hegemonic empires to stink up the planet Earth, after it has joined the ranks of the like of Rome and Ghingis Khan in the realm of the past tense. And history marches on.
You see, this game can be played by more then one player and usually, as in this case, the belligerent supremacists with these big big wet dreams of lording over everyone with their nukes (or whatever) are a tiny minority of the world populace. They best do not forget that.