Skynet is coming.

[ScottL]

Years ago I repaired a bullet detection system for an air force Bombing/strafing Range. It used the supersonic wake of bullets to determine their proximity to a target acoustically. It was used to train Air force pilots to strafe on target (A couple of telephone poles with a canvas strung between them.) with their 1/2 second burst of ammo. The system would produce a hit/no-hit count on a readout which set an acoustical target cone based on a calibrated amplifier's settings.


Within a year thereafter it was replaced with a system that mapped the projectile's trajectory in three dimensional space. Much more useful because it could give the pilots better feedback than the previous system. (Which was really old.)

Wait....you repaired a bullet detection system that waited for the wake or sound of the bullet? Please clarify as the bullet would've already hit the target before either the wake or the sound were detected.

Post-strafe analysis.

Ahh makes more sense now. Read it wrong I suppose. Thanks.

[Diogenes]

Hasta la vista, 2nd Amendment.
New Drone Sensor Could Instantly Spot Any Shooter

Years ago I repaired a bullet detection system for an air force Bombing/strafing Range. It used the supersonic wake of bullets to determine their proximity to a target acoustically. It was used to train Air force pilots to strafe on target (A couple of telephone poles with a canvas strung between them.) with their 1/2 second burst of ammo. The system would produce a hit/no-hit count on a readout which set an acoustical target cone based on a calibrated amplifier's settings.


Within a year thereafter it was replaced with a system that mapped the projectile's trajectory in three dimensional space. Much more useful because it could give the pilots better feedback than the previous system. (Which was really old.)

Wait....you repaired a bullet detection system that waited for the wake or sound of the bullet? Please clarify as the bullet would've already hit the target before either the wake or the sound were detected.

You want to know how the system worked?

There was a microphone placed in a bulwark in front of the target. The mic was pointed towards the target. The microphone was designed to be sensitive to sounds within it's "cone" of operation. It was connected to a calibrated amplifier with a peak limiter so that the output counter would only be triggered by sounds greater than the threshold setting within the cone of the Microphone's sensitivity.

The cone (size of target) could be expanded by increasing the gain of the amplifier. The dials were calibrated to correspond with desired target size.

As a supersonic bullet moves forward it produces a sonic boom in it's wake. From the perspective of a microphone, the sound appears to emanate from the bullet's closest approach to the microphone. As a result, the intensity of the sound is directly proportional to the closeness of the bullet to the microphone. Bullets that pass by outside the microphone's selected cone of detection are not counted, while bullets that go through the microphone's cone of detection are counted as "hits."

As a result, the operator can see how many bullets flew through the microphones "set" cone of detection, and therefore how many were on target. This produces the pilot's "Score" of rounds on target.


Given that Fighter jet guns pretty much destroy anything they are fired at, this is a pretty good way of being able to track hits on a consumable target. (Sometimes they would move in an old truck, aircraft or tank to serve as a target instead of the Canvas strung between two poles.

[choff]

The clock keeps ticking toward skynet.

http://tech.ca.msn.com/robots-have-just ... re-sorta-1

[Betruger]

Does skynet dream of electric sheep?

[rjaypeters]

No. Androids...Which Dream of Electric Sheep.

But Skynet might use these:

Kilobots Are Leaving the Nest: Swarm of Tiny, Collaborative Robots Will Be Made Available to Researchers, Educators, and Enthusiasts

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 112020.htm

...for its own purposes.

[Diogenes]

The clock keeps ticking toward skynet.

http://tech.ca.msn.com/robots-have-just ... re-sorta-1

Robots Have Just Become Self-Aware (Sorta)

Qbo’s ability to see is quite a lot more complicated, as it is equipped with stereoscopic vision that allows it to see and learn. It uses one of its eyes for "object recognition", while the other performs "face recognition."

[Diogenes]

Government Total Recall On Past Communications

These regimes will store every phone call, instant message, email, social media interaction, text message, movements of people and vehicles and public surveillance video and mine it at their leisure, according to "Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Government," written by John Villaseno, a senior fellow at Brookings and a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA.

http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/008430.html

[Diogenes]

Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing

In the space of three years, the administration has built an extensive apparatus for using drones to carry out targeted killings of suspected terrorists and stealth surveillance of other adversaries. The apparatus involves dozens of secret facilities, including two operational hubs on the East Coast, virtual Air Force­ ­cockpits in the Southwest and clandestine bases in at least six countries on two continents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... story.html

[MSimon]

But D,

Anything that will stop the dopers from doping it up is a good thing. Your liberties are just collateral damage and it wonders me why you are so reluctant to give them up in the name of the greater good. You should be shoveling them into the fire by the bushel basket to stop the dope menace.

Everyone must be watched. And more than a few need to be killed. The tools you have shown us here are perfect for the job.

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/mexico ... affrey.htm

[Diogenes]

But D,

Anything that will stop the dopers from doping it up is a good thing. Your liberties are just collateral damage and it wonders me why you are so reluctant to give them up in the name of the greater good. You should be shoveling them into the fire by the bushel basket to stop the dope menace.

Everyone must be watched. And more than a few need to be killed. The tools you have shown us here are perfect for the job.

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/mexico ... affrey.htm

Don't think for a minute that the efforts by some to create totalitarian control are entirely the result of the war on drugs. People will seek to create totalitarian control for it's own sake because evil people lust for power.

Insofar as the War on Drugs has an impact on the creation of this totalitarian control system, Drug users are merely aiding them by giving them further excuses to use it.

[krenshala]

But D,

Anything that will stop the dopers from doping it up is a good thing. Your liberties are just collateral damage and it wonders me why you are so reluctant to give them up in the name of the greater good. You should be shoveling them into the fire by the bushel basket to stop the dope menace.

Everyone must be watched. And more than a few need to be killed. The tools you have shown us here are perfect for the job.

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/mexico ... affrey.htm

Don't think for a minute that the efforts by some to create totalitarian control are entirely the result of the war on drugs. People will seek to create totalitarian control for it's own sake because evil people lust for power.

Insofar as the War on Drugs has an impact on the creation of this totalitarian control system, Drug users are merely aiding them by giving them further excuses to use it.

Don't you mean that by having these drugs be illegal, those that desire a totalitarian control system are merely using drug users as an excuse to expand their powers? Skynet would definitely help them in this ...

[Diogenes]

But D,

Anything that will stop the dopers from doping it up is a good thing. Your liberties are just collateral damage and it wonders me why you are so reluctant to give them up in the name of the greater good. You should be shoveling them into the fire by the bushel basket to stop the dope menace.

Everyone must be watched. And more than a few need to be killed. The tools you have shown us here are perfect for the job.

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/mexico ... affrey.htm

Don't think for a minute that the efforts by some to create totalitarian control are entirely the result of the war on drugs. People will seek to create totalitarian control for it's own sake because evil people lust for power.

Insofar as the War on Drugs has an impact on the creation of this totalitarian control system, Drug users are merely aiding them by giving them further excuses to use it.

Don't you mean that by having these drugs be illegal, those that desire a totalitarian control system are merely using drug users as an excuse to expand their powers? Skynet would definitely help them in this ...

No, I mean that by people insisting on doing something illegal, and which has broad opposition among the public, they are creating excuses for the totalitarian types to increase their surveillance power.

If the D@mn drug addicts would quit trying to get high, the government couldn't use them as an excuse to expand Federal Surveillance/interdiction powers.

If we GET to a police state, it will be because drug addicts (and terrorists) nudged us into it. They believe that their desire to get a buzz is more important than worrying about the monster they are creating.

[MSimon]

But D,

Anything that will stop the dopers from doping it up is a good thing. Your liberties are just collateral damage and it wonders me why you are so reluctant to give them up in the name of the greater good. You should be shoveling them into the fire by the bushel basket to stop the dope menace.

Everyone must be watched. And more than a few need to be killed. The tools you have shown us here are perfect for the job.

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/mexico ... affrey.htm

Don't think for a minute that the efforts by some to create totalitarian control are entirely the result of the war on drugs. People will seek to create totalitarian control for it's own sake because evil people lust for power.

Insofar as the War on Drugs has an impact on the creation of this totalitarian control system, Drug users are merely aiding them by giving them further excuses to use it.

Don't think for a minute that the efforts by some to create totalitarian control are entirely the result of the war on drugs.

Oh. I don't. But I do thank you for aiding and abetting them with your control fantasies.

BTW I suppose it was the users of alcohol who were responsible for the alcohol gangs of the '20s. After all - without the users there would have been no gangs.

I expect you will get the totalitarian state you are working for before people in pain give up their pain relievers.

And note: the military will be going after its own people.

Vets confounded by dueling medical pot rules

Veterans Affairs allows it in some states while Justice Department cracks down

[Diogenes]

Don't think for a minute that the efforts by some to create totalitarian control are entirely the result of the war on drugs.

Oh. I don't. But I do thank you for aiding and abetting them with your control fantasies.

Someone is going to be in control. That is the nature of human beings. We refuse to accept any society in which there is not a strong man of some sort keeping order. That being said, it is in our best interest that the control should be benign and subject to the will of an informed and responsible people.

I expect you will get the totalitarian state you are working for before people in pain give up their pain relievers.

You use an awful lot of misapplied euphemisms. My Uncle used to say he was going to the "Candy Store" when he really meant he was going to get a bottle of hooch.

What you refer to as "pain relievers" is more often a "get high" chemical of some sort, more correctly identified as a foreign toxin or poison.

[Diogenes]

Robots Deliver In Afghanistan

December 29, 2011: On December 17th, a U.S. Marine Corps K-Max helicopter UAV in Afghanistan made its first combat supply delivery, bringing 1.5 tons of food and other items to a combat outpost. The mission took 90 minutes. Two K-Max helicopters arrived in Afghanistan last November and will remain until May.

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairm ... 11229.aspx