Stealthy New Predator Aircraft Revealed

[Tom Lowe]

http://i.gizmodo.com/5224305/predato...-faster-faster

I'm guessing that this is why Gates wants to halt production on the F-22 soon. These new robotic planes will probably be able to mop the floor with manned aircraft soon enough - and at 1/3 the cost. Pretty soon wars will be fought by ultra-fast-reflexed 12 year old gamers recruited by armies, sitting at Xbox consoles. And who says there's no future in gaming?

Will future armies be able to taunt each other over voice chat: "You got schooled noob! Uninstall!" :head_explode: :head_explode: :head_explode:

Or better yet, instead of fighting wars at all we can just "settle things" on Xbox live. Think of all the savings in money and lives.

[Jacek Zakowicz]

What is this- Mass murderer's forum now?
Jacek Zakowicz, OptiTek

[PatrickW]

Soon enough these will be flying the skies of America, scanning, and recording the population, in defense of civil liberties tracking evil terrorists and vicious criminals, and enemies of the state (hippies, people that don't agree with the government, journalists, politicians, you)...

[Tom Lowe]

i think i spotted a few of these over Arizona near the Mexico border already...

[conrad gaunt]

I think you'll find advanced missile technology/satellite tracking will remove the need for planes at all. And now we have the ram-jet technology for extra speed..

They're already long range and accurate enough, if you don't mind blowing up a few civilian villages and schools, like your American puppet masters did when the "intelligence agencies" thought Osama was staying in a bed and breakfast in one, on the border of Pakistan, and then atomised it completely in an act of unjustified mass murder) I know, the British dropped cluster bombs on Basra, but then they're c**ts too..

I naively thought special forces going in was the slightly better option, apparently not..

Its funny actually, we thought there were burglars in next doors house the other night, so we poured petrol through the letter box and set fire to it, just to make sure we didn't get burgled too.. etc etc

Maybe new political leaders will lead to missiles being replaced with more talking, though its doubtful. Then again, thats probably what leads to wars.

Can someone please go dis-arm Tom, or do I need to fly to the states with my spud gun and a large King Edward..

[Tom Lowe]

heh. hey, i'm calling for the end of all physical wars. why not just cut out the middle man and fight all our wars on Xbox Live? imagine the savings!

of course, in this scenario sweden and south korea would be "superpowers."

[Austin Glass]

I'm still trying to figure out how much of ronxs' post is meant seriously...

certain parts are obvious... others not.

[conrad gaunt]

I'm still trying to figure out how much of ronxs' post is meant seriously...

certain parts are obvious... others not.

lol!.. the bit about the bed and breakfast, i made up (but not the village/school/high altitude bombing of/200 dead children etc).. and the bit about setting fire to our neighbours house, was a metaphor for the logic used to justify such actions.. everything else..well you're an adult, go figure.. but I'll add, the biggest wars are waged using a secret weapon called the IMF/World Bank.. so yes, I get Toms humour, but felt the need to point out that all war is waged by ignorant racsists at the top of the chain..

[Alan Skinner]

Reminds me of the Original Star Trek program where the Enterprise visits a world that is at war with a neighboring planet. To preserve the buildings and landscaping, it had been "talked out" by the politicians on both sides that a computer would decide where a "computer generated" enemy missile hit. The blast radius would be calculated by the computer and the citizenry caught in this area would be rounded up and disposed of cleanly.

This is what happens when you take the "talking" too far. War is HELL! That is why it should be avoided.

Technology has been advancing the cause of war and vice versa since the first anthropods picked up sticks and hit each other with them, progressing to throwing rocks, javelins etc.

Einstein said that: "So long as there is man, there will be wars."

Plato said: "Only the dead have seen the end of war."

What did they know? They knew the positively staggering ability of men to rationalize their actions. "They believe differently than I. I am right, therefore they must be wrong. Let us kill them and take their territory" and on it goes.........

[Tom Lowe]

Plato said: "Only the dead have seen the end of war."

In some ways, the old Greek texts say almost all there ever was or ever will be to say.

Of course, I'm a big believer in what Carl Sagan has to say on this topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuJ3Tjj40P8