Not just a hoax, but a chilling hoax. I hope it give the **AA a moment pause. What if they do push just a smidge too hard? If the US government can pull a German citizen out of New Zealand, where else is there for TPB to operate 'safely'?
Nobody knows just what might happen if TPB got desperate enough, but this gives people a taste.
What is also not taken into account is the heart-rate and respiration of a regular cyclist at all other times of the day. What is the long term average for people who cycle to work and those who drive?
What I find nifty is that this is actually happening right now. If it is only 335 lightyears away, then the image is 335 years old. This is not some image of a supernova that happened and the soon-to-be-ex-star was in fact already gone. but the formation of a planet is sloooooow. We can be watching this now for a long while (longer than our lives) and get a lot of information from it. As telescopes get better, we'll get a better view too.
I remember that movie! The guy was left eye dominant and had to get 'trained' by driving around a jeep etc (montage scene) with the dominant eye covered so that his Apache controlling eye stopped being a lazy bugger. Then there was some great helicopter shoot-outs and America won.
You are forgetting pre-downloading. Any Steam game I pre-ordered was also pre-downloaded and ready to play the minute it was released. Can you do the same with the DVD?
A new Warcraft RTS, set 5-600 years after current WoW content would be a great lead-in to Warcraft 2. It could be used to set the scene for the next MMO, start development on a story and characters and future bosses. And it wouldn't be too hard to create make it so that your previous character could be part of your prologue as the great hero who slew whatever. If you see how your character generation in GW2 goes, the ability to pick a previous character and it will look up some feats of strength, be them PvE or PvP and let you pick something major you did to add to your characters backstory etc...
Sorry to be a bit off topic, but there was a very good article on/. about how you really shouldn't use Americans as an indication of how the global population thinks.
What if you have a support craft that flies higher up, or a few miles away that acts as C&C. What if you get a B52 (Service Ceiling of 15km) loaded with drone control equipment that avoids direct conflict due to cruising so high up.
A nice pic of what I imagine. The plane can be fitted to transport 2 drones (I don't know whether they can reattach after launch).
What would the latency be if you had LoS on your drone, using laser (to avoid your signal being intercepted). What would the latency be then even at maximum range (how far can you see from 15km up? Answer: ~400 km)
Even at a distance of 400km (range of a predator drone is 1,100 km) you shouldn't have much lag. The only downside is that the drone doesn't operate above 8km, so you'd have to launch it and then climb, or (guessing) you can drop it from higher, but would have to go down to pick it up later. The good thing would be that after releasing it, you know it can't be taken over and used against the B-52, since it cannot fly up there. Also, the Hellfire missiles usually equipped are Air-to-Surface and not likely to pose a threat to the B-52.
What is likely to spot and target a B52 that is up to 400 km away? A number of B-52's were lost in Vietnam, but they were performing manoeuvres overhead (dropping bombs) and not away off at the horizon simply controlling drones. So this would likely keep the pilots safe.
Or they currently don't make any plane to support 15g manoeuvres because no pilot can handle that stress. Tale out the pilot, and you can design it to survive whatever you like (can afford) with the materials you have available.
Have you not seen the video of the 2 quadra-coptors (spelling?) throwing the pendulum between them? Computer-Computer interaction will annihilate a human controller, when they know exactly where eachother is, where each one is going to go and have no fear of sacrificing one of their brethren to take you out. They won't feel remorse or pity, they will not get tired or give up until you are DEAD.
Yes, if they are switching beef for horse, they might be switching horse for beef. Have you noticed any enlargement in your moobs (puntastic!) recently?
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Don't forget the "World Series"
Not just a hoax, but a chilling hoax. I hope it give the **AA a moment pause. What if they do push just a smidge too hard? If the US government can pull a German citizen out of New Zealand, where else is there for TPB to operate 'safely'?
Nobody knows just what might happen if TPB got desperate enough, but this gives people a taste.
What is also not taken into account is the heart-rate and respiration of a regular cyclist at all other times of the day. What is the long term average for people who cycle to work and those who drive?
What I find nifty is that this is actually happening right now. If it is only 335 lightyears away, then the image is 335 years old. This is not some image of a supernova that happened and the soon-to-be-ex-star was in fact already gone. but the formation of a planet is sloooooow. We can be watching this now for a long while (longer than our lives) and get a lot of information from it. As telescopes get better, we'll get a better view too.
Brain Bugs? Frankly, I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive!
Clearly they deliberately only charged up 25% of the valves prior to launch.
I remember that movie! The guy was left eye dominant and had to get 'trained' by driving around a jeep etc (montage scene) with the dominant eye covered so that his Apache controlling eye stopped being a lazy bugger. Then there was some great helicopter shoot-outs and America won.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Birds
Given the user's name, are you sure that's a +1 mod?
I agree, homophobes are weird idiots.
You are forgetting pre-downloading. Any Steam game I pre-ordered was also pre-downloaded and ready to play the minute it was released. Can you do the same with the DVD?
And Butt Stallions. Don't forget the Butt Stallion.
I guess the wire coming out of his brain is occluded by the tinfoil hat.
A new Warcraft RTS, set 5-600 years after current WoW content would be a great lead-in to Warcraft 2. It could be used to set the scene for the next MMO, start development on a story and characters and future bosses. And it wouldn't be too hard to create make it so that your previous character could be part of your prologue as the great hero who slew whatever. If you see how your character generation in GW2 goes, the ability to pick a previous character and it will look up some feats of strength, be them PvE or PvP and let you pick something major you did to add to your characters backstory etc...
I see the name Kansas and imagine a single cottage being picked up in a tornado and flung to Oz.
I suppose it best to just link the article.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/02/25/1659230/we-arent-the-world-why-americans-make-bad-study-subjects
Sorry to be a bit off topic, but there was a very good article on /. about how you really shouldn't use Americans as an indication of how the global population thinks.
Oh come on, it's not called "The Red Planet" without good reason.
Screw Stephen, Sheldon's got his eyes on it!
What if you have a support craft that flies higher up, or a few miles away that acts as C&C. What if you get a B52 (Service Ceiling of 15km) loaded with drone control equipment that avoids direct conflict due to cruising so high up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B-52_with_two_D-21s.jpg
A nice pic of what I imagine. The plane can be fitted to transport 2 drones (I don't know whether they can reattach after launch).
What would the latency be if you had LoS on your drone, using laser (to avoid your signal being intercepted). What would the latency be then even at maximum range (how far can you see from 15km up? Answer: ~400 km)
Even at a distance of 400km (range of a predator drone is 1,100 km) you shouldn't have much lag. The only downside is that the drone doesn't operate above 8km, so you'd have to launch it and then climb, or (guessing) you can drop it from higher, but would have to go down to pick it up later. The good thing would be that after releasing it, you know it can't be taken over and used against the B-52, since it cannot fly up there. Also, the Hellfire missiles usually equipped are Air-to-Surface and not likely to pose a threat to the B-52.
What is likely to spot and target a B52 that is up to 400 km away? A number of B-52's were lost in Vietnam, but they were performing manoeuvres overhead (dropping bombs) and not away off at the horizon simply controlling drones. So this would likely keep the pilots safe.
Or they currently don't make any plane to support 15g manoeuvres because no pilot can handle that stress. Tale out the pilot, and you can design it to survive whatever you like (can afford) with the materials you have available.
Have you not seen the video of the 2 quadra-coptors (spelling?) throwing the pendulum between them? Computer-Computer interaction will annihilate a human controller, when they know exactly where eachother is, where each one is going to go and have no fear of sacrificing one of their brethren to take you out. They won't feel remorse or pity, they will not get tired or give up until you are DEAD.
In soviet Mars, comet kill Curiosity!
Sounds like a Surface problem.
Given the time-frame, I'm thinking closer to R'lyeh's true location. How about we all just leave this continent alone, 'kay?
Yes, if they are switching beef for horse, they might be switching horse for beef. Have you noticed any enlargement in your moobs (puntastic!) recently?