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Remote Operated Aircraft Targets Hurricanes
burnin1965 writes "Usually news articles about remote operated UAVs involve blowing people up. NASA's application takes a different path and uses the utility of the aircraft for scientific research that will benefit humanity. I haven't read much about NASA's Global Hawk lately, but they have been busy providing up-close access to the recent string of hurricanes."
Finally?
Humans are terrible replicators of Godly things.
Now we'll have HAL on Earth. Yay.
Just wait until Stuxnet infects these things ..
fucktard! they are used for surveillance, firefighting, search and rescue and humanitarian missions besides sending ragheads to Allah!
anyone with a conscience, & some form of attention span left, may find this interesting;
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/178/722/By_Way_of_Deception,_Thou_Shalt_do_War.html
Retired NORAD Officer's New Book Predicts a Tentative Worldwide UFO Display on October 13, 2010
it would have helped with scheduling if the time was supplied; like between 1-6pm, or after the tornadoes, something.
as for unfairness, we like this reference; google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=weather+manipulation
& this one; google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=bush+cheney+wolfowitz+rumsfeld+wmd+blair+obama+weather+authors
meanwhile (after a further while of continued death, debt & destruction); the corepirate nazi illuminati is always hunting that patch of red on almost everyones' neck. if they cannot find yours (greed, fear ego etc...) then you can go starve. that's their (slippery/slimy) 'platform' now. see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
never a better time to consult with/trust in our creators. the lights are coming up rapidly all over now. see you there?
greed, fear & ego (in any order) are unprecedented evile's primary weapons. those, along with deception & coercion, helps most of us remain (unwittingly?) dependent on its' life0cidal hired goons' agenda. most of our dwindling resources are being squandered on the 'wars', & continuation of the billionerrors stock markup FraUD/pyramid schemes. nobody ever mentions the real long term costs of those debacles in both life & any notion of prosperity for us, or our children. not to mention the abuse of the consciences of those of us who still have one, & the terminal damage to our atmosphere (see also: manufactured 'weather', hot etc...). see you on the other side of it? the lights are coming up all over now. the fairytail is winding down now. let your conscience be your guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. we now have some choices. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on your brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.
"The current rate of extinction is around 10 to 100 times the usual background level, and has been elevated above the background level since the Pleistocene. The current extinction rate is more rapid than in any other extinction event in earth history, and 50% of species could be extinct by the end of this century. While the role of humans is unclear in the longer-term extinction pattern, it is clear that factors such as deforestation, habitat destruction, hunting, the introduction of non-native species, pollution and climate change have reduced biodiversity profoundly.' (wiki)
"I think the bottom line is, what kind of a world do you want to leave for your children," Andrew Smith, a professor in the Arizona State University School of Life Sciences, said in a telephone interview. "How impoverished we would be if we lost 25 percent of the world's mammals," said Smith, one of more than 100 co-authors of the report. "Within our lifetime hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions, a frightening sign of what is happening to the ecosystems where they live," added Julia Marton-Lefevre, IUCN director general. "We must now set clear targets for the future to reverse this trend to ensure that our enduring legacy is not to wipe out many of our closest relatives."--
"The wealth of the universe is for me. Every thing is explicable and practical for me .... I am defeated all the time; yet to victory I am born." --emerson
no need to confuse 'religion' with being a spiritual being. our soul purpose here is to care for one another. failing that, we're simply passing through (excess baggage) being distracted/consumed by the guaranteed to fail illusionary trappings of man'kind'. & recently (about 10,000 years ago) it was determined that hoarding & excess by a few, resulted in negative consequences for all.
Remote operated UAVs? As opposed to all the manned ones?
How exactly is watching hurricanes, which redistribute energy and bring water to the Americas, going to benefit humanity? With super HD footage for the Discovery channel? Saving a few lives when 100x as many die every year to massive overpopulation? Nah. It won't benefit humanity. It's cool though.
you both forgot to add that you're both afraid, no demeaning retort intended.
Come on, NASA, let us queue up for 30 seconds of access to a live feed with the ability to move/aim/zoom the camera and fire a paintball! Charge for it and make millions!
The (former) little aussie that could :) - they have since been bought out by Boeing (Insitu).
Aerosonde has been doing it for a while, hence aero-sonde. I believe they started doing crazy weather stuff some time before they were the first UAV to cross the Atlantic in 1998.
The University of Colorado and University of Nebraska have been doing this to target severe thunderstorms for awhile. http://tornadochaser.colorado.edu/
Presently, Mississippi politicians have larded up the hurricane hunter fleet in Biloxi, MS.
The use of drones could eliminate the need for putting pilots and crew in harms way and shut down an over-expensive program. Its time the government began investing in technologies that will save money rather than just protecting political pork.
How can stopping hurricanes be a good thing? How do we know what adverse effects could occur if we interfered? Imagine we stopped volcanoes? Like all things natural; when we try stop them; something worse replaces them!
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