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-tiberius t1_je29jnj wrote
Reply to comment by CygnusX-1-2112b in How racing drones are used as improvised missiles in Ukraine - They are light, fast and cheap by speckz
A few years ago there was a choreographed drone display during the Super Bowl halftime show. I was horrified. If we can pre-program these cheap drones to dance around the sky, someone is going to pre-program a swarm armed with rudimentary explosive devices. The idea that some guy can buy these online, arm them, program each with an individual target, and launch dozens or hundreds out the back of a Uhaul is fucking terrifying. We need jammers. We need countermeasures. We probably need a watch list for people buying large numbers of these things.
Best they could give us in Afghanistan in 2016 was a Mossberg 500 and some birdshot. That shit was probably futile then, it almost certainly is now.
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Reply to comment by OSCgal in TIL that when Weird Al wrote I Want A New Duck in 1985, he went to the library and researched ducks for a week by ElderCunningham
A hand-carried typewriter is the kinda thing Al would own.
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Reply to comment by TheSpiceMelon in TIL that when Weird Al wrote I Want A New Duck in 1985, he went to the library and researched ducks for a week by ElderCunningham
He spent 6 months in Jerusalem studying the Torah and he even got circumcised as an adult to better understand Jewish culture. Fun fact, he's now a registered mohel in the state of California.
-tiberius t1_j4kece3 wrote
Reply to TIL that when Weird Al wrote I Want A New Duck in 1985, he went to the library and researched ducks for a week by ElderCunningham
Ah, yes, his last single before being gunned down by Madonna's henchman. RIP, Al.
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Reply to comment by ThePhotoGuyUpstairs in How racing drones are used as improvised missiles in Ukraine - They are light, fast and cheap by speckz
Yeah, it's a terrifying possibility, and the more these drones show themselves effective in combat, the more likely I think it that some asshole will get the idea to try. Hell, ISIS successfully killed some French soldiers almost 9 years ago with a single drone loaded with C4. Thank god none of their adherents in Europe or the US were able to do the same, because they wouldn't hesitate.