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250-Foot Hybrid Airship To Spy Over Afghanistan
Toe, The writes "Gizmodo details the Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) (based on the P-791), a spyship from US Army's Space and Missile Defense Command capable of hovering at 20,000 feet. Planned for deployment in Afghanistan, the ship can float for three weeks and carry well over a ton of payload, apparently surveillance equipment. The video on Gizmodo of the P-791 shows that these ships are a hybrid not only of both buoyancy and propulsive lift, but also of both awe and hilarity."
My first thought when i saw this article was Hindenburg......
______ Eagles may fly but monkeys don't get sucked into jet engines.
Lucky there's a war going on, so we can test our new equipment. </sarcasm>
By mid-2011, when it will deploy, the war will have been won and it will just be used to make tourist videos. I seem to have inherited Tower Bridge, it's a pain to keep painted, would you like to buy it?
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
I'm not sure he's advocating cutting off the soldiers from support. He just seems to be saying that the war is really stupid, and any and all investment in such a war is folly to the extreme. The rest of his post is just trolling.
But, that said, I am not sure if it would be betrayal. From my point of view, everyone who signed up to invade Afghanistan and Iraq betrayed me, betrayed the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, and betrayed the citizens of his respective nation. When it comes to randomly invading countries, I am a pacifist to the extreme.
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You're right, the soldiers did, with full free will, agree to obey fickle and unpredictable political masters who have a long history of ordering the invasion of countries all across the globe, including (for the US) such powerhouses as Grenada. Going back as far as the Mexican-American war, where the US conquered half of Mexico, the soldiers should be able to see that their political masters are absolutely insane. The Spanish American war ended in the US conquest of the Philippines, where it brutally suppressed rebellion. We won't even get into all of the numerous little wars and interventions that US got involved with in the 20th century.
It's a shame /. has a lot of Americans - they must miss the accuracy of the humour :D
Nothing will benefit you in this world and the Hereafter. The bottom line will be just another foot in your cowardly Kaafir ass.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
not quite, blimps dont work like the traditional idea of a balloon, more like a li-ion battery really, you have your rectangular battery block that you can grab with your hands and jam into your laptop, and inside that block there is six/nine cells that contain all the funky battery stuff. blimps are made of little bloons inside a big case bloon, and the outside balloon doesnt have any helium in it, its just stretched over the frame, then there is a considerable gap between this outer layer and the lift balloons (enough for a man to walk through, for maintenance purposes) thing could probably survive a woodpecker, it just wouldnt look to graceful.