You may want to view the web site with the aid of the bable fish.
The helicopter is available for about 50,000JPY in hobby stores in Japan. It can either run for 30 minutes with a trailing power line attached, or 3 minutes with a rechargeable battery pack. It's meant for indoor use and has built in circuitry to make it easy to fly.
Keyence also sells something called a Desktop Runner which is a small R/C truck, on about the same scale as a matchbox car, and costs about the same as the helicopter.
I just saw an interesting television show tonight.
After the second world war, somebody conducted some studies of soldiers from that war and discovered that apparently only 15% of the men actually fired on a man coming towards them.
Between that time and the Vietnam war, the military began to use conditioning. This consisted of having the men fire at man like targets while being trained, thus conditioning them to fire on man like shapes without thinking.
The same study technique was used on soldiers from the Vietnam war and it was discovered that 90% of the soldiers in that war fired on an enemy soldier.
No, video games couldn't possibly have a shred of influence on anybody's behavior. ---------------------- That being said, there is a difference between video games making it easier for someone to kill, and making them go out and kill.
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Well, you can find small R/C helicopter at this site:
http://www.keyence.co.jp/hobby/
It's about a foot long (290mm).
You may want to view the web site with the aid of the bable fish.
The helicopter is available for about 50,000JPY in hobby stores in Japan. It can either run for 30 minutes with a trailing power line attached, or 3 minutes with a rechargeable battery pack. It's meant for indoor use and has built in circuitry to make it easy to fly.
Keyence also sells something called a Desktop Runner which is a small R/C truck, on about the same scale as a matchbox car, and costs about the same as the helicopter.
I just saw an interesting television show tonight.
After the second world war, somebody conducted some studies of soldiers from that war and discovered that apparently only 15% of the men actually fired on a man coming towards them.
Between that time and the Vietnam war, the military began to use conditioning. This consisted of having the men fire at man like targets while being trained, thus conditioning them to fire on man like shapes without thinking.
The same study technique was used on soldiers from the Vietnam war and it was discovered that 90% of the soldiers in that war fired on an enemy soldier.
No, video games couldn't possibly have a shred of influence on anybody's behavior.
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That being said, there is a difference between video games making it easier for someone to kill, and making them go out and kill.