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Homemade RC Millennium Falcon Is the Drone You've Always Dreamed of Flying
MojoKid writes Here's a dose of Rebel goodness to tide you over while you wait for the next Star Wars trailer. A drone enthusiast in France recently graced the web with a few videos of a self-built quadcopter with a shell designed to look like the Millennium Falcon. It's enough to make a Star Wars fan tear up. The drone features a blue thruster light, just like the real Millennium Falcon, and has bright front lights as well. Its creator, who goes by "Oliver C", has some serious modding skills. The shape of the Millennium Falcon presented Oliver with some challenges, but he has the balance more or less handled by the time the spaceship (or quadcopter) takes its first flight outside.
Sorry, it's not "Arabs" that dream of virgins as the reward for al jihad al asghar against their hated infidels, it is Muslims (subscribers to the political ideology invented by Caliph Abd al-Malik called "Islam"). There are many Arabs who are Christians (Assyrians, Copts, etc), Druze, Yazidis, even a few Zoroastrians have not yet been slaughtered by the various Muslim sects. An Arab is a member of an ethnic group who may or may not believe in the ideology called "Islam", and tens of millions of Arabs do not.
ps. for those Slashdotters who think Islam was created by Mohammed (which is the orthodox Islamic fiction) you are well behind the current historical scholarship. See Dr Tom Holland's research (acessible through his very readable book "In the Shadow of the Sword") for the evidence that shows that the Koran was neither original (much of it plagiarised from early Christian and Jewish stories of the region) and satellite imagery shows that from 630 CE to 725 CE the qibla of all mosques pointed to Petra, not Mecca (decisively showing that the Islamic narrative of its origins is completely false). The story about what the First Arab Emperor (Mohammed) did, where he came from, what he said, and the origins of the Koran are all fictions added well after Caliph Mohammed was dead. The superstition/supernatural aspects of Islam were (badly) plagiarised from the Arian heresy of Christianity and seem designed to provide divine justification for the Arab Empire to counter-balance the Jewish and Christian traditions of the Eastern Roman ("Byzantine") Empire. These are new historical discoveries - we live in interesting times!
For those wanting to know some of the arguments but don't want to read Dr Holland's book, you can get a flavor of the emerging scholarship on the origins of Islam (and the complete falsehoods of orthodox Islamic doctrine) at YouTube discussions such as:
"An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings - Jay Smith" [72 mins]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Sorry to wander off-topic there Slashdotters. I just had to respond to that incorrect identification of the Arab ethnic group with a doctrine of Islam. I hoped you find the rest of the post informative - because believing that Islam was created by Mohammed has now shown to be as out-of-date as believing the Sun goes around the Earth (although a lot of people are yet to catch up to the new information; and of course, those with a vested interest will resist the new information - but it is the truth, amigos and amigas).