You better tell the folks at Edwards Air Force Base that they shouldn't be testing stealth drones there, then. Oh, and maybe you should shoot an email over to Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks complaining about the RQ-170 Sentinal development. And I suppose the folks at White Sands Missile base should be chastised for testing the new stealth cruise missile in US skies.
Bottom line: The Air Force is not going to test stealth technologies or anti-stealth technologies in foreign airspace, and they're certainly not going to wait until wartime to develop these technologies, because by then it will be too late.
The NTSB is an independent federal agency charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation accident in the U.S. and significant accidents in other modes of transportation-railroad, highway, marine and pipeline.
Which one of the things you have listed require them to be stealth?
Let's see. Pilot training. Equipment validation. Wargames. Besides, stealth is more than just not having active transponders and radars. Stealth is also built into the airframe, in terms of materials used, reflection angles, etc.
They want to use unmanned drones to spy on everyone but right now that would be too dangerous because of possible collisions with commercial aircrafts.
They want to use unmanned drones to spy on everyone but right now that would be too dangerous because of possible collisions with manned spyplanes. FTFY.
Sigh! Spiderman's webs attach to skyscrapers, streetlights, bridges and the like. That's why you never see him swinging around in the suburbs. Spiderman only fights crimes downtown.
Thing is, they are only talking about the internet traffic, not the total data available on the internet. For example, abandoned blogs. There must be loads of blogs that people have started, then abandoned because nobody was reading them, or they moved to facebook, or whatever. Photo sites, parts databases, etc, There must be terabytes of stuff that is never, or rarely accessed. And that's only web pages. What about FTP sites, and others?
On the other hand, there will be a lot of duplication of data in that Suburban, as well as on the internet. How many times is this post going to be read? How many times is the Miley Cyrus video being downloaded? How many copies of DeCSS are there on the net?
Not so. At Lucasfilm, the company (more specifically ILM, the special effects branch), "better" is default. "Faster" and "cheaper": pick two is the saying.
However, when it comes to movies by George Lucas... not so much.
For bits, yes. For atoms, it's been much easier, because of the resources needed to duplicate intellectual property that is embodied in actual matter. But with 3D printing, atoms are becoming more like bits.
Okay, but to have that kind of control, you'd have to become a monopoly supplier of nylon, or polycarbonate, or silicon, or whatever material makes up the design. The design itself is just a cad/cam file, easily copied.
There is still time to do this, not that I'd be a fan.
No. There isn't. The cat's already out of the bag on this one. 3D printers can be built by any DIY-er with a handful of tools, some simple circuitry, and parts you can pick up at your local hardware store.
Your wife leaves for a few days, and the best thing you can think to do with that time is spend it all watching television? Dude, don't you have hobbies? You know that cool stuff you never get to do enough of because your wife thinks you should be paying attention to her? A few days ought to be enough to at least build a prototype of a cool robot.
Ooh, like that one on Robot Wars episode 20. Here, I think I have it on one of my hard drives somewhere. Let me cue it up on the big screen.
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Where, pray tell, is all of this closed air space?
You better tell the folks at Edwards Air Force Base that they shouldn't be testing stealth drones there, then. Oh, and maybe you should shoot an email over to Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks complaining about the RQ-170 Sentinal development. And I suppose the folks at White Sands Missile base should be chastised for testing the new stealth cruise missile in US skies.
Bottom line: The Air Force is not going to test stealth technologies or anti-stealth technologies in foreign airspace, and they're certainly not going to wait until wartime to develop these technologies, because by then it will be too late.
The NTSB is an independent federal agency charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation accident in the U.S. and significant accidents in other modes of transportation-railroad, highway, marine and pipeline.
So put a reflector on the tower so the signals don't go up. Or don't put cell towers near airport approach corridors.
Which one of the things you have listed require them to be stealth?
Let's see. Pilot training. Equipment validation. Wargames. Besides, stealth is more than just not having active transponders and radars. Stealth is also built into the airframe, in terms of materials used, reflection angles, etc.
They want to use unmanned drones to spy on everyone but right now that would be too dangerous because of possible collisions with commercial aircrafts.
They want to use unmanned drones to spy on everyone but right now that would be too dangerous because of possible collisions with manned spyplanes. FTFY.
I can't see a single reason for the Air Force to be flying stealth drones in US airspace.
Really? Not even for pilot training? Not even for equipment validation? What about air shows? Demonstration flights? Wargames?
Your imagination needs a workout, I think.
Neither would be more aerodynamic, since either can be placed behind a transparent-to-the-appropriate-frequencies fairing.
Sigh! Spiderman's webs attach to skyscrapers, streetlights, bridges and the like. That's why you never see him swinging around in the suburbs. Spiderman only fights crimes downtown.
Seriously, you guys need to stop camouflageing the metric system with these silly inches and pounds nonsense.
Sometime next year...
"Hey! Honey. Come check this out! The price of UttBay Outway stock is going through the roof.
Apparently neural networks are news to the dot.com guy who submitted the article...
There's ten thousand every day,
Shit, I could code this thing.
You just did.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ That is all
Thing is, they are only talking about the internet traffic, not the total data available on the internet. For example, abandoned blogs. There must be loads of blogs that people have started, then abandoned because nobody was reading them, or they moved to facebook, or whatever. Photo sites, parts databases, etc, There must be terabytes of stuff that is never, or rarely accessed. And that's only web pages. What about FTP sites, and others?
On the other hand, there will be a lot of duplication of data in that Suburban, as well as on the internet. How many times is this post going to be read? How many times is the Miley Cyrus video being downloaded? How many copies of DeCSS are there on the net?
Will it help me to get to my beautiful beachfront property in the Florida Everglades?
I thought cookies were for storing session independent settings, not for advertising.
Not so. At Lucasfilm, the company (more specifically ILM, the special effects branch), "better" is default. "Faster" and "cheaper": pick two is the saying.
However, when it comes to movies by George Lucas... not so much.
For bits, yes. For atoms, it's been much easier, because of the resources needed to duplicate intellectual property that is embodied in actual matter. But with 3D printing, atoms are becoming more like bits.
Okay, but to have that kind of control, you'd have to become a monopoly supplier of nylon, or polycarbonate, or silicon, or whatever material makes up the design. The design itself is just a cad/cam file, easily copied.
Future sales will be of raw materials needed to fab things. Designs are digital files, which already cost nothing to copy.
I thought intellectual property laws were already impossible or impractical to enforce.
There is still time to do this, not that I'd be a fan.
No. There isn't. The cat's already out of the bag on this one. 3D printers can be built by any DIY-er with a handful of tools, some simple circuitry, and parts you can pick up at your local hardware store.
Ideas, once shared, belong to the person sharing and the person shared with...
...either of which may decide to share it further.
I admire the vet who fixes Siberian tigers.
Your wife leaves for a few days, and the best thing you can think to do with that time is spend it all watching television? Dude, don't you have hobbies? You know that cool stuff you never get to do enough of because your wife thinks you should be paying attention to her? A few days ought to be enough to at least build a prototype of a cool robot.
Ooh, like that one on Robot Wars episode 20. Here, I think I have it on one of my hard drives somewhere. Let me cue it up on the big screen.
He3 fusion doesn't work. Other than that, we're good to go!