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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)."
They use them more now than the little electric carts with six wheels. They go through the gate and can fly and some have little missles that can take out small squads of Jaffa really quickly.
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
As with most things, The Onion has already tapped this comedy vein: .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Is Pretty Cool
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Haha that reminds of a song!
Star Trek'n
Captain James T. Kirk
"We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, We come in peace, shoot to kill, Scotty beam me up!"
If you mean nerd as in a WOW/ART/Music/Myspace Nerd, then yes I might agree with you. They are typically a notch or two on the evolutionary scale above Dirty Hippy, which as we all know is the lowest know species of man. They tend to be pacifistic in nature due to miss-informed biased world view based on You-Tube and blogs rather than a more practical & more accurate hands on, been there, looked at it with my own two eyes life experience.
On the other hand if you mean Nerd as in an engineering student (the highest form of life) then you are WAY off base.
An engineering nerd can appreciate the cold unfeeling efficiency of high-tech death as well as a society that doesn't reward pacfism. Hell if you didn't get that from reading Star Ship troopers then you can't hardly call yourself a proper nerd.
If President Bush had read ST and been a proper Nerd, we wouldn't be still fucking around with Iraq, Iran, and N. Korea.
This is how it would have played out if he had.
9/11 they fucked with us
10/11 President declares the Axis of Evil must be delt with.
10/12 we drop a nuke on Iraq
10/13 we drop a nuke on Iran
10/14 we drop a nuke on N. Korea
10/15 France protests
10/16 we drop a nuke on France, they retract their protest
1 month later we find out Bin Laden did it and that he is hiding in Pakistan
We demand they catch him and extradite him to the US....or else.
24 hours later Pakistan delivers up Osama Bid Laden
24 hours after that we nuke Pakistan for dragging their feet.
The UN becomes much less "whinny" for some odd reason.
"Well, the military gets the money to buy the toys; if we moved, say, 20% of the military tech budget into space exploration, that would be a lot sexier right now."
Social Security took up 20.2% of the 2007 federal budget. Defense took up 19%. By your logic, most geeks would be turned on by granny porn.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
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