Lockheed Martin to deploy airships over the US[views:3987][posts:35]_______________________________________ [Jan 22,2007 12:29pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/lockhee...altitude-airship-for-homeland-secu/ 12miles up.. and airships. I only got a few things to say about this first thought [img] second thought [img] what they want: [img] [img] reality: [img] |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 22,2007 12:30pm - NickReddy ""] Fucking a. dude. |
| ________________________________ [Jan 22,2007 12:32pm - Mess ""] no wonder their are so many paranoid schitzophrenics in the world |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 22,2007 12:34pm - the_reverend ""] [img] |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 22,2007 12:35pm - Sinistas ""] That Manatee pic is the best use of an image, ever. |
| _______________________________ [Jan 22,2007 12:38pm - Yeti ""] i always feel like somebody's watchin meeeee |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 22,2007 1:46pm - HailAtWork ""] bloody hell... |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jan 22,2007 1:49pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] NickReddy said:Fucking a. dude. Fucking a dude? |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 11:13am - HailAtWork ""] I'm sure this will be much better than spending all that money on say, healthcare...because what we really need is more military spending so the government can spy on civilians at their own expense. Who approved this and why aren't we lighting them on fire? |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 11:14am - HailAtWork ""] Big Brother's new toy: Another bloated gas bag watching you from the sky 2006-05-30 By James Renner Cleveland Free Times Last week, a fire ignited at the Akron Airdock that once housed a fleet of Goodyear blimps. Firemen rushed to the 211-foot-tall structure and quickly doused the flames. Reporters and photographers descended on the landmark. Many were surprised to learn the blimps were no longer being stored there. Turns out Lockheed Martin -- the company that gave us the Trident intercontinental ballistic missile -- was renovating the site for an upcoming project when the fire started. It's being turned into a hangar for a prototype airship. If you're frightened of this administration's habit of spying on American citizens, you may want to stop reading. The prototype is called the High Altitude Airship, or HAA. Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors in Akron won the $40 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to build HAA in 2003. It is essentially another blimp. A giant one. Seventeen times the size of the Goodyear dirigible. It's designed to float 12 miles above the earth, far above planes and weather systems. It will be powered by solar energy, and will stay in a geocentric orbit for up to a year, undetectable by ground-based radar. You can't see it from the ground. But it can see you. "The possibilities are endless for homeland security," says Kate Dunlap, a Lockheed Martin spokesperson. "It could house cameras, and other surveillance equipment. It would be an eye in the sky." According to a summary released by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, the HAA can watch over a circle of countryside 600 miles in diameter. That's everything between Toledo and New York City. And they want to build 11. With high-res cameras, that could mean constant surveillance of every square inch of American soil. "If you had a fleet of them, this could be used for border surveillance," suggests Dunlap. Launch date: 2009. |
| __________________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 11:16am - CaptainCleanoff ""] HailAtWork said:I'm sure this will be much better than spending all that money on say, healthcare...because what we really need is more military spending so the government can spy on civilians at their own expense. Who approved this and why aren't we lighting them on fire? [img] |
| __________________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 11:18am - CaptainCleanoff ""] I disagree with this shit, but HTL does nothing but bitch about it. If you hate this country so much leave or run for public office and do something about it. On a side note, this shit reminds me of: [img] |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 1:37pm - HailAtWork ""] I would move if I had the $, this country is getting far too retarded to warrant staying here. I thought about running for office, but I seriously doubt woonsocket is ready for my ideas... |
| __________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 1:43pm - w3 nli ""] Ha ha ! |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 1:44pm - hungtableed ""] HailAtWork said:I would move if I had the $, this country is getting far too retarded to warrant staying here. I thought about running for office, but I seriously doubt woonsocket is ready for my ideas... You know damn right well that you would never leave the U.S. And you're probably right about Woonsocket not being ready for your ideas, as liberal as any city can get, they still ain't got shit on your socialist values. Big-government socialist programs are only going to ruin this country because they basically say that the people are too stupid to do shit for themselves and they make people lazy and dependent on government handouts. How is someone supposed to learn valuable skills that would help them climb to a higher social standing by sitting on their ass waiting for their food stamps and welfare check? |
| __________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 1:46pm - w3 nli ""] wooo hoo food stamps and welfare. im going to vacation on the governments dollar. im actually an undercover agent, youre all going down. down town to china town |
| __________________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 1:49pm - Dwellingsickness ""] These threads where HTL runs her trap,always make me chuckle |
| ______________________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 1:52pm - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""] Five point plan for Woonsocket, RI 1. Change name to WOOOOOOOOOO-nsocket, invite Ric Flair to naming ceremony. 2. Make Ric Flair mayor of WOOOOOOOOOO-nsocket 3. Allow Ric Flair to chop welfare cheats right in the chest 4. Make out with Ric Flair 5. Erase point four and replace with something non-homoerotic about collective farming or something |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 1:53pm - HailAtWork ""] People wouldn't need food stamps and welfare if they lived in self-suffient communities. Why the fuck don't states/cities grow most of their own food? And why are we paying to live on little pieces if the planet that we already have every right to live on for free? |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 1:58pm - Ric Flair ""] WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Listen up fatboy! You walk into the mid-south Colliseum, trying to tell the nature boy how to run the show. You think you're the jet flyin, space mountain ridin, son of a gun, naitch? Let me tell you fatboy, there's only one kiss stealin, wheelin and dealin, son of a gun round here and to be that man you gotta beat the man, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 2:54pm - Hoser at work ""] HailAtWork said:People wouldn't need food stamps and welfare if they lived in self-suffient communities. Why the fuck don't states/cities grow most of their own food? And why are we paying to live on little pieces if the planet that we already have every right to live on for free? Oh jeezus here we go. I'll sum up HTL's thought process for you all to understand. "So like, we have to totally BUY land to live on? It's like part of the Earth maaaannn! Like we're part of the Earth so like, it's our right to be here! So like, I blame those stupid big tycoons for taking advantage of our Earth mother! Like....totally down with them, maaann!! They like make guys fight in wars and like, take bread from the children and totally kill everyone with their bombs and stuff!! It's like....totally all about money and business!! I'm like so totally sick of this...like....I wanna like run away to place where like...everyone has bare feet and like...I say totally down with showers man! Water is all about business man...the tycoons can totally regulate water so like...no showers! Like we can all just love one another because our bodies like, were totally meant to be shared with everyone maaann." So ya.....I don't think that Woonsocket would be interested. I've compiled a list of wonderful countries that we could all chip in to send you to. They are as follows, and ALL Socialist: China Sweden Syria Venezuela Vietnam North Korea Cuba Laos Turkmenistan Zambia Belarus Please let us know once you select a country and we will start a "Get HTL out of my fucking country" fund. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 3:00pm - the_reverend ""] I like how no matter what HTL says, hoser doesn't read it and then just spouts the same crap. please, come up with some better material in you war against HTL. |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 4:27pm - y_ddraig_goch ""] Hmmm sweden is one of the top ten countries, all above america, to live in. America was at number 25 I believe, Finland and Iceland where of course the top two, tied. So send me to sweden, though I love New England to much |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 10:45pm - miscegenator ""] I love it how people here bitch, bitch, bitch about "freedoms" and then do nothing. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 23,2007 11:57pm - anonymous ""] miscegenator said:I love it how people here bitch, bitch, bitch about "freedoms" and then do nothing. yeah, i hear you there. it's almost as lame as people bitching about people bitching |
| __________________________________ [Jan 24,2007 12:28am - W3 nli ""] why did you log out to post that |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 24,2007 12:36am - tomx nli ""] HailAtWork said:People wouldn't need food stamps and welfare if they lived in self-suffient communities. Why the fuck don't states/cities grow most of their own food? And why are we paying to live on little pieces if the planet that we already have every right to live on for free? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA first off: woonsocket BWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT A PIT!! second: yeah, more money into healthcare! because it would totally go to helping out the middle class, who are being ground into the dirt by taxes. no, instead, it would go to every welfare sucking pig that calls emergency rescues for "chest and/or back pain" every weekend so they can get a neat ride in an ambulance and get doped up on morphine in the ER all for free. the government needs to STOP putting money into healthcare, because without free rides the human scum would have to find another way to be disgusting filthy bottomfeeders that pull society down with them. why do you think health care premiums are so high? because of frauds, cheats, lazy pieces of shit that should be shot, not subsidized with government tax dollars. oh, you ate yourself to 900 pounds because youre a worthless pig? why not just claim youre disabled and live off my taxes? in fact, go right ahead and get that 26,000 dollar stomach stapling, post-weightloss surgeries and dietary rehabilitation! some bleeding heart FAGGOT decided that society owes you something because they overheard the idea in the campus coffee shop. disgraceful. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 24,2007 12:38am - W3 nli ""] amen ! |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 24,2007 1:27am - miscegenator ""] anonymous said:miscegenator said:I love it how people here bitch, bitch, bitch about "freedoms" and then do nothing. yeah, i hear you there. it's almost as lame as people bitching about people bitching Call it bitching, but your hipster ass might just be sorry I pwnt you for being ineffective and impotent. What the fuck are you good for? Pick me some cotton, nigger. |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 24,2007 8:32am - Hoser at work ""] the_reverend said:I like how no matter what HTL says, hoser doesn't read it and then just spouts the same crap. please, come up with some better material in you war against HTL. Of course I read it. Did you? If so, then re-read it. But, spouting the same crap is all that I can do when the same crap is spouted at me. It's a reactionary thing, Rev. It's like when people do stupid things on stage, your reaction is to take a picture. It's the same thing. Are you asking me to stop taking pictures? If you are, then you just pushed it a bit too far. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 24,2007 8:52am - the_reverend ""] I'm pretty sure you just blew my mind. I don't have the time to read so I just scan for keywords and then type my well-formed oppinion. typically, it's something like "BLAHBLAHBLAH IM SO SMRT BLAHBLAH LET ME WIKI SUCCUBUS'S ANUS BLAHBLAHBLAH" so what you are saying is we are all part of some huge rube goldberg machine: action/re-action. A hummingbird just flapped it's wings in africa and there's a hurricane a'cummin! |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 24,2007 11:03am - HailAtWork ""] Who ever said I wanted to live in a socialist country? I don't recall ever mentioning that...if you want to pay for land that's fine, go ahead, it's one of the most retarded concepts I've ever heard of, let's make life harder for our species by forcing people to do things for other people so they can dwell on a peice of the planet they already have a right to live on. If you're born on the planet, you naturally have to use the land and resources to survive like every other species here...why pay someone for it? But soon they'll be making you pay for water and air, and the rights to your own genetic material. Everything of the fucking planet has a $ on it now...fucking disgusting. |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 24,2007 11:06am - the_reverend ""] that's indian take right there! oh and [img] |
| _______________________________ [Jan 24,2007 12:58pm - Yeti ""] thats an awesome picture. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 24,2007 2:06pm - hungtableed ""] TomX has had the most intelligent thing to add to this. I second w3 with another: AMEN |
| _______________________________ [Jan 24,2007 2:07pm - Hoser ""] HailAtWork said:Who ever said I wanted to live in a socialist country? I don't recall ever mentioning that...if you want to pay for land that's fine, go ahead, it's one of the most retarded concepts I've ever heard of, let's make life harder for our species by forcing people to do things for other people so they can dwell on a peice of the planet they already have a right to live on. If you're born on the planet, you naturally have to use the land and resources to survive like every other species here...why pay someone for it? But soon they'll be making you pay for water and air, and the rights to your own genetic material. Everything of the fucking planet has a $ on it now...fucking disgusting. That ridiculous thought process that you have the right to live wherever you want without paying for the land upon which you live is Utopian and immature. If your belief that we should not have to pay for land were reality, it would hurl the world into wars everywhere as clans battled clans for land. It would be lawless and the land would be even more deprived of resources than it is now. It would create an unimaginable hell and thrust us into an archaic lifestyle. Laws guiding ownership of land protect more people than it hurts. The germanic tribes held land all over Europe for hundreds of years, and they fought and murdered one another over resources. The Romans eventually came there and fought and murdered and raped for more land and resources. War after war was fought over that land. I believe that you need a refresher course in human nature 101. This "people living in harmony shit is IMPOSSIBLE. You just need to get a handle on reality. Humans, as a race are a selfish and argumentative creature. It's would be nice to see your ideas take shape in the physical world, but they are ideas that are only Utopian, and worthless to pursue as a potential reality. Just think, without laws, land ownership, and $$......you probably would be barefoot and pregnant if not dead. You sure as hell wouldn't have the right to vote or drive a car. You wouldn't have the right to an education because presumably, you are a female. And without all of these things that look down upon, you would probably be wearing a burka and trapped in a village that you will never get out of, with no future or hopes. |