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2011-07-18 Science & Technology

Single Keystroke Nearly Self-Destructs Unmanned Navy Copter

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-07-18 16:50|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 DO NOT PUSH THE RED BUTTON!!!!

Also, the spacebar is one of the biggest keys on the keyboard. Why tie it to the FUCKING SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE!?!?!?

Use the ~ for pete's sake! Or CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-D or something.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-07-18 17:10|| 2011-07-18 17:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Lazy programming, mayhaps, DV?

Posted by Barbara 2011-07-18 18:41|| 2011-07-18 18:41|| Front Page Top

#3 More likely bad human factors.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-07-18 19:33|| 2011-07-18 19:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Bad humans are always a factor!

when the drone's operator accidentally pressed the spacebar with a wire from his headset
I suspect there is more to this story. As DV said, the spacebar is the biggest key on the keyboard. My money says they were using it to navigate through or select menu items.

Posted by SteveS 2011-07-18 20:38|| 2011-07-18 20:38|| Front Page Top

#5 When I become the Evil Overlord, my weapons of mass destruction will NOT have a self-destruct device. If for unavoidable reasons I am forced to include a self-destruct device, it will NOT be triggered by a large, red button labeled, 'do not push'.

Posted by Steve White 2011-07-18 21:39|| 2011-07-18 21:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Common sense rules for evil overlords.

Posted by badanov 2011-07-18 21:56|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2011-07-18 21:56|| Front Page Top

#7 This story has so many holes and unanswered questions it reads like a psyops plant. The failures actually sound like good news - just what you need in field testing.

Still, the predatory bird-sized version of this product may be more useful - more sensors, more loiter, less weapons.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2011-07-18 22:05|| 2011-07-18 22:05|| Front Page Top

#8 What? No, Molly Guard?

Posted by CincinnatusChili 2011-07-18 22:11|| 2011-07-18 22:11|| Front Page Top

#9 it will NOT be triggered by a large, red button labeled, 'do not push'

Instead the 'do not push' button would be wired to a very high voltage so that any pusher would be instantly Barbequed.

Said meat would then be fed to the sharks with frigging lasers on their heads...

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-07-18 22:23|| 2011-07-18 22:23|| Front Page Top

#10 HHHMMMM, and yet the Navy still wants more of 'em!?

* ION PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > NEW LONG RANGE USAF BOMBER WILL BE ONE FAMILY OF AIRCRAFT, NOT MANY, i.e. a single platform = design for different capabilities - not just "joint", but "integrated across [multiple] domains.

ARTIC = DITTO DESIRED BY USDOD + US GOVT. FOR ...
> F-35's.
> USN Submarines.
> Various USN Surface Warfare capabilities.
> SPace.

ESPEC AS PER USAF + USN "GLOBAL STRIKE" RESPONSIBILITIES [e.g. Global Prompt Strike, Orbit-/SpaceStrike], beyond the potential of AIRSEA BATTLE Concepts in WESTPAC Region [read, China].

Again, the USDOD believes that there won't be anymore major inter-state wars for the rest of the 21st century, or at least thru 2050, so I'm presum that both offensive + defensive utility is inferred.

* SAME > [US-designed] FLYING CARS COULD BE IN UK SKIES IN FIVE YEARS. The US$250,000 = UK L$155,000 Terrafugio Transition.

Dem TRANSFORMERS go full monty as per GEORGE JETSON, or is it the way around - "JETSONIAN", versus "going OPTIMUS", ETAL.???

D *** NG IT, DOES NO ONE CARE FOR "SPACE GHOST"!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-18 23:50|| 2011-07-18 23:50|| Front Page Top

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