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Blimps Monitor Crowds At Sporting Events
Death Metal tips news about how defense contractor Raytheon is adapting military-style surveillance packages for use aboard blimps at public events like the Indy 500. "Until recently, Raytheon's eye-in-the-sky technology was used in Afghanistan and Iraq to guard American military bases, working as airborne guards against any oncoming desert threat. Using infrared sensors and a map overlay not unlike Google Earth, the technology scans a large area, setting important landmarks (say, the perimeter of a military base), and constantly relays video clips back to a command center. If a gun fires or a bomb is detonated, the airships can detect the noise and focus the camera — all from a mighty-high 500 feet." Though the technology is expensive, Raytheon is shopping it around to police departments and other organizations that might want to keep an eye on large gatherings of people.
In modern America, we are faced with the possible oppression of the human race at the hands of the military industrial complex. The scary thing is that these agents take on forms that make them blend in with our everyday environment. We don't see the threat because the threat is masquerading as part of our normal world.
Fixed that for him.
Where in the constitution does it say they're allowed to spy on you with a Zeppelin while you're watching a football game.
NOWHERE, that's where!
Next they'll be putting cameras in your bathroom, just in case.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
That's because you're an Apple fanboi and the RDF caused you to read it wrongly. That or he was joking, you choose.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
We want to catch them before they even become terrorists, by doing things like not sending troops to shoot up their homeland.