http://www.thefoa.org/tech/ref/appln… If we can tap fiber, I’m pretty sure good old fashioned copper telegraph lines aren’t an issue to intercept ;)
Morgan Rock
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Corvidae are too awesome to do the bidding of terrorists. They’d simply mass together and wage war on ISIL themselves. Terrorists frankly need to watch their backs around crows or ravens. They’re simply no match. :P
Physical access to data means the data is theirs. Doubtful the data on a static storage medium could be unbreakable by government decryption means. Transmission online means encryption methods can rotate, change, etc - as long as the two systems continue to pass messages, cipher sets and encryption methods can change…
This one made me legitimately LOL :D
... carrier pigeons are super easy to track (they’re physical and fly between points), they carry relatively easily decryptable messages, and they’re super vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks (catch pigeon, read message, replace message with disinformation, release pigeon on its way).
It’s a missile designed to deliver nukes. Yes, we ideally want it to get there quickly. :P
The early 90’s test had nothing to do with the system as a whole. The successful early tests were of subsystems entirely divorced of targeting, guidance, or other full integration tests. You literally have no idea what you’re talking about. The explosive residue (likely gunpowder) found on pieces of the aircraft were…
Maybe you should? THAAD came online in 2007... 9 years after TWA 800. It also uses a kinetic kill mechanism, which means there’s no explosive at all (where you were suggesting it was an explosive in a missile). Furthermore this is a nearly ONE TON MISSILE travelling MACH 8. That impact would tear the aircraft in half.
Missile warheads don’t work that way. No offensive anti-air missile company worth their salt would degrade the reliability of their product by forcing it to require direct kinetic impact for success (which a single explosive charge with no frag material would). Warheads are designed to explode outside an aircraft and…
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This is the thing all those other people are talking about. Cg shift aft = insta-uncontrollable-climb (as if someone threw the trim wheel back more than imaginably possible), then stall and descent. That’s what happened to 800.
Personally I think the setup of this video is boring as hell. If you are going to show off the speed of something, show a video from a fixed standpoint with the ship speeding by... I couldn’t honestly tell by this video if this were faster than a destroyer or aircraft carrier at full chat. It’s just a ship in the…
Indiana Jones was delayed and the technology was thrown into The Force Unleashed. Then other business developments (Lego Indiana Jones, the 4th movie) ended up pushing it back, and then it was cancelled, with only the portable version ever coming out (and royally sucking). It was called “Staff of Kings”.
Pretty sure all military aircraft in civilian airspace run transponders like the rest of everyone else just to make sure no terrible collisions or anything happen. A lot of modern aircraft are designed for low RCS even if they aren’t “stealth”, especially unloaded. It’s be a nightmare trying to track everything with…
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Yeah... the B-2 is a quiet aircraft as far as military jets are concerned. The only offensive jet I’ve heard that was quieter is probably the A-10 (thanks to its airliner-class high-bypass engines). Compared to a fighter or even a B-1? There’s no comparison. The B-2 is a whisper compared to the B-1’s godly roar.
I’m personally surprised they didn’t attach them to winched support lines and turn them into larger arrays of these things. Even with a decent steel cable, they’d be invisible to 400mph aircraft. If them made a 1200’x100’ array of balloons, they’d probably be able to take down a few aircraft if they knew their general…
You DO realize games back in the early-mid 90’s cost $79-99.95, right (and they STILL often featured $40 or so “expansion packs” that were mostly just story add-ons)? That’s about $130-140 in today-dollars. Game developers are being asked to make more and more HUGE games for far smaller returns, and WE’RE bitching…
With all due respect, though... Furniture is nothing like software. Gaming software, specifically, can end up with a $100M budget because it takes teams upon teams to build the incredibly complex systems (and tons and tons of 3D/art assets) involved in getting our video games built. Gaming software is probably closer…