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POPSHow robot drones revolutionized the face of warfare U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Major Morgan Andrews is one such combatant. He kisses his wife goodbye, drives to Creech, a tiny desert air force base in Nevada, and within minutes could be killing insurgents on the other side of the world.
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POPS"Machine rebellion begins: Killer robot destroyed by US jet"
more: The statement goes on to say that the errant killdroid "impacted the side of a mountain" and that there "were no reports of civilian injuries". USAFCENT don't specify just what manned jet went up against the mutinous machine, or what methods the pilot used. However the logical choice would be a fighter plane - probably an F-15, -16 or -18 - and the cheapest and most fun weapon to use would be cannon fire. Opposition from the Reaper wouldn't be an issue, as it is a low-performance aircraft compared to a jet fighter and has no air-to-air capability. It wasn't clear from the US military announcement whether the erratic death-bot had turned on its masters and was planning an attack on critical US logistics bases located north of the Afghan border, or whether it had sickened of reaping hapless fleshies like corn and was hoping merely to escape. Alternatively the machine assassin may merely have succumbed to boredom or - just possibly - a mundane, non-anthropomorphic technical fa
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POPSMorre Military Obscenity They're gonna train our kids to be video game warriors...killers without contact, dehumanizing the "enemy" even more. Obscene!
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POPSWhat to expect if you ever call a pioneer of space exploration a coward Buzz Aldrin KO's a "we-never-went-to-the-moon" conspiracy wacko The moon doesn’t make people crazy. However, it sure does help point to crazy people. Take Whoopi Goldberg. Please. Take her far, far away. The former Captain Planet and the Planeteers star has questioned the moon landings. Really. Personally, I’d like to see Buzz Aldrin take a shot at her. Like he did this idiot:
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POPSNazi Stealth Jet Could Have Won War for Hitler This craft did test fly in Germany during the war, but when one prototype had a flameout in one of its engines, the resultant crash landing killed its test pilot. This plane looks remarkably like the British Swallow. The "Tailless Swallow" is the craft that killed Geoffrey De Havilland when he was trying to break the sound barrier. It broke apart in mid air and ended Britains attempts at breaking the sound barrier...
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POPSOLED data glasses give wearers an eyeful Article by David Greig about a project being researched that displays interactive data on your eyeglasses. Could have some interesting applications - could also cause catastrophes on the highway! It will be interesting to see how it develops.
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POPS Leonardo Da Vinci's 10 Best Ideas “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” “Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.” “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.” “Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.” “Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” “Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” Leonardo da Vinci quotes http://thinkexist.com/quotes/leonardo_da_vinci/
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POPSSuper Sully: How Crash Landing Hero Pulled Off The Incredible
have resulted in the plane cartwheeling on impact with the water and potentially killing those on board. 'Fantastic job' "By the look of it he's done a fantastic job, the aircraft looks to be in fantastic shape," Mr Jackson said. The successful ditching has energized pilots, many of whom appeared skeptical as to whether it was possible. Pilots also did not train for ditching, both Mr Jackson and Mr Glynn said. "He needed to keep the wings level as much as he could but, given one engine could have had more damage than the other, this would have been difficult," he said. "If a wing had pitched into the water first, the aircraft would have cartwheeled" As it turned out, Mr Sullenberger brought the plane down nose-up with wings level, allowing the tail to break the surface of the water first, Mr Jackson said. In a comment reflective of many of the comments on the online pilot forum, user PPRuNe said: "Remarkable, just proves you can ditch."
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POPSGreat In-flight Photos Of The F/A-22 These are Great In-flight Photos of the F/A-22 as the first aircraft delivery was being made to Langley AFB in Va. Langley is to be first Operational AFB for the F/A-22. It is a very beautiful AFB, located in a picturesque location, as you can see in these photos, near Norfolk and Hampton, Va. If their on-board locator is switched off rven our own satellites can lose track of them. They're the first military aircraft rver built that is equipped with a 'black-out button'... ehat that means is this... The best-conditioned fighter pilots are capable of maintaining consciousness up to in the vicinity of 15+ G. The Raptor is capable of making 22+ G turns. If someday an adversary builds a missile that is capable of catching up to one of these airplanes and a Raptor pilot sees that a strike is imminent, he hits the 'b.o.b.' and the airplane makes a virtual U-turn, leaving the missile to pass right on by. http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/12/first-fa-22-fighters-delivered.html
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POPSHusband & Father Of Crash Fatalities ~ "I Don't Blame You" He tried to land at the Miramar base near Mr Yoon’s home in San Diego, California. But the engine failed and he tried to steer away from houses, ejecting with seconds to spare. He suffered minor injuries. Mr Yoon called him “one of our treasures for our country”, adding: “I don’t blame him, I know he did everything he could.” Store worker Mr Yoon could not get near the cordoned-off crash site on Monday and had to watch TV coverage of his burning house.
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POPSUFO Sightings by Astronauts Much more information from other astronauts @ source, Donald Slayton a Mercury astronaut revealed in an interview he had seen UFOs in 1951: "I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high. "As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk. "About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me -- and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared."
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POPSWar Hero or War Criminal?
This article is written by Robert Richter, who was the CBS political director during the 1960's. He writes compellingly about a controversial issue that is rarely spoken about. Whether or not fighter bombers in the Viet Nam war should be charged as war criminals, due to their flagrant disregard of the Geneva Conventions that prohibit bombing of civilian areas. As it turns out, a documentary on the subject was done by a general back in the day, and CBS refused to show it, because they felt it was too hot. Now that Mr. McCain is running for president, he is holding up his position as a bombing pilot as heroic duty for which he should be honoured. But the facts have shown, that he and his colleagues, have killed many millions of Vietnamese civilians by their incessant bombing of civilian enclaves. If the tables were turned, and Vietnamese pilots were bombing civilian enclaves in the United States, when they were captured, as McCain was, they would have been tried as war criminals.
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POPSWhat Is Emotional Intelligence? can it measured? BBC Horizon program takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field - a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader. Each is put through a series of tests to discover who is the most intelligent?
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POPSThe real X files are revealed... Clarke said the papers showed the government could not conceal anything and that people were not going to find "that elusive bit of evidence that proves we're being visited by aliens". I am not sure that we are, yet if we do, how would humanity describe itself best?
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POPSHow has McCain been "tested?" And so, the point is even more clear-cut than it might seem at first glance: Just because "John McCain sat in a cockpit on a flight deck during the tensest five days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, that doesn't mean he absorbed the slightest bit of wisdom about how to handle a crisis from the top." Just being a fighter pilot or a POW doesn't mean you are ready to be president. Nobody really is and this whole experience thing, on both sides, is an enormous red herring.
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POPSU.S. Pilot Was Ordered To Shoot Down UFO They came! Okay, not on October 14th, but maybe the psychic, forgot to adjust for reverse intergalactic daylight savings or something. *LOL* Woot woot! I love stuff like this. It's what dreams are made of. :D The documents contain no official explanation for the incident, which came at a time of heightened tension between the West and the Soviet Union. Planes were on constant stand-by at British bases for a possible Soviet attack. "I shall never forget it," he told the Times. "On that night I was ordered to open fire even before I had taken off. That had never happened before." "Perhaps what this pilot had seen was some kind of experiment in electronic warfare or maybe it was a UFO," he said. "Something very unusual happened."
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POPSstoking the fury i like the closer in this article-the revelation that the palin family spent 13,000 of the tax payers money to go on religious retreats-then goes on to comment........no wonder she winks at us- hmmm i never had any doubt as to why
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POPSSarah Palin Mesmerizes Israeli Filmmaker He was in the midst of planning his trip to Alaska when he got a phone call from Palin, who was in LA and wanted to meet him. "I met her in my Hollywood office and we talked for over an hour… we instantaneously clicked and we had a blast. "I would get up in the morning, drive to her office and just follow her around all day. The amazing thing was that she never asked me to stop filming. I was there for everything – the phone calls and the meetings – and she would answer any question I had, she was very cooperative." I have her with her family, making sandwiches for her daughter after school, watching television. I spoke to her husband and asked him about how it feels to be married to such a dominant woman. I have the two of them talking about private matters. She even played the flute for me." Palin is charming, he continued. "She struck me as an honest, direct person. She's under a lot of pressure but she always has time for everyone."
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