With Big Brother's penchant for efficiency, it will more likely mean that everyone within a three hundred mile radius of Washington, D.C., will be surveilled from eleven slightly different perspectives. In Hi-res.

United States also rumored to be working on atom bomb and rockets that will transport men to moon.

Oh, that Big Brother. I was hoping for constant surveillance of every square inch of Shilpa Shetty

Not exactly a new idea.

Sounds like an excuse to make the world's largest blowdartgun

Will they be linking the data to Google Earth?

It's being turned into a hangar for a prototype airship.


oh....my...GOD!

At least it's solar powered. And you guys thought Bush didn't care about the environment. For shame!

Its...its....it's like a satellite! But bigger! And not so high up!

In other news, terrorists begin shunning sunny Mid-east for Ireland and Seattle.

Who wants to go plink cameras?

*shoves camera in coat, runs from soze*

Good, I don't trust those shifty looking corn fields.

...unavailable for comment.

Lusiphur

WTF is that? Sephiroth with tits?

soze: WTF is that? Sephiroth with tits?
NOOB!

will stay in a geocentric orbit for up to a year, undetectable by ground-based radar.

I stopped reading at this point, because this dipshiat obviously doesn't have even the faintest clue.

Churchill2004: I stopped reading at this point, because this dipshiat obviously doesn't have even the faintest clue.

Don't tell me you're one of those heliocentric universe blowhards.

staplermofo: Don't tell me you're one of those heliocentric universe blowhards.


No, not universe. Just a heliocentric solar system. The universe doesn't have a definable center.

Anyway, that's not what's wrong with his statement.

Sure, the earth is moving. We can't feel it, but it's going around in circles. Yep, makes perfect sense.

Can I catch a ride?

Get em while they're hot! One size fits all!

2007-01-21 04:24:35 AMstaplermofo


United States also rumored to be working on atom bomb and rockets that will transport men to moon.

That's crazy talk.

2007-01-21 05:45:26 AMChurchill2004


staplermofo: Don't tell me you're one of those heliocentric universe blowhards.


No, not universe. Just a heliocentric solar system. The universe doesn't have a definable center.

Anyway, that's not what's wrong with his statement.

Maybe the universe has a defineable center, we just can't define it that's all.

\Unpossible !!!

Fark better not turn into Digg. Over the top BS headline FTL
Bring back teh funnies.

staplermofo United States also rumored to be working on atom bomb and rockets that will transport men to moon.

Will man ever walk on her fertile surface? Democratic hopeful Adlai Stevenson says so!

Meatzilla Get em while they're hot!

Bit young. And what's that thing on her head?

is it bulletproof?

I watched an episode of Outer Limits yesterday that had a similar plot. Except they could only watch 500 sq. miles. Turned out to be an alien plot.

I suggest we the world fight back by wearing no clothes.

DontBeStupid: Don't be... errr, nevermind.

But hey, that was teh funnah!

And it's an AFDB, just in case you were serious ;)

OMG....look out

a piece of technology as little understood as the blimp has been used in a seminal piece of fiction that treats a big brotheresque world.

My goodness this is scary. Wouldn't it be even scarier if there was a private company that had the technology to enable anyone with internet access to see anywhere in the world at will.

New's flash....just because the government can look anywere in the usa using blimps doesnt mean that they can percieve the totality of the united states. Furthermore....just because they don't have blimps...doesnt mean they can't already see a section (or sections) of the united states at will.

ok...ok..this artical is totally farked...


why would you need a blimp to stay in geocentric orbit>????
I can't believe I passed over that

Churchill2004: Anyway, that's not what's wrong with his statement.

Yep. It isn't in orbit. (pops)

It is simply going to float 12 miles up and maintain it's position using, I assume, normal blimpy methods.

/just agreed with Churchill2004
//feels very very dirty.

So because camera had wide angle lense that means they are constantly viewing every single piece of information possible on the US ground? You do realize that even if the resolution for that minute level of detail was there, who is even going to look at it in real time, or be able to store it? That is a TON of live streaming data.

Capabilities What they plan on doing

What a bunch of paranoid hippies. Next they are going to write up an article about the sat's we already have in orbit that can do the exact same thing. OMG

Don't look up.

And carry a hello kitty umbrella for leaving buildings that you enter with a black umbrella.

It's simply amazing that we have allowed ourselves to become a society of inmates.

Freedom? Please. You have the freedom to work and pay more than half of your income to various taxes. (or more) We're just a bunch of sheep too stupid to exert our will. Wait a sec... will? Say goodbye to free will.

Fortunately, most of the pot growers nowadays are indoors.

The_Time_Master: And carry a hello kitty umbrella for leaving buildings that you enter with a black umbrella.

I think this guy has the right idea..

abdul: Fortunately, most of the pot growers nowadays are indoors.

I can think of lots of legitimate reasons to want to have a closer look at..well...everything.

But you probably have the right idea. As the article mentioned one of the first uses will be for border surveillance. And after that, the "war" on drugs.

After all, nobody can be against better border security. Right? And no politician that wants to maintain power will come out against anything that would help end drug abuse. I mean... it's for the protection of the kids!

After that we'll be used to the damned things and nobody will think to complain.

Well, it IS for the children...

Are we supposed to call each other citizen yet?

I guess no more sex in public.

meekychuppet: I suggest we the world fight back by wearing no clothes.

Needs repeating.

If you've done nothing wrong. You've nothing to fear.
Obey.
Obey.
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Okay.

That's a lot of cameras. That, in turn, is a lot of Americans that have jobs watching screens all day.

Being Americans, they'll be fat, lazy, and disinterested. Former TSA employees or something.

So They still won't catch me.

Is this what Dubya meant when he said, "Make the pie higher"?

It's more of a blimpy like blimp thing than an actual pie shaped thing, but I suppose our president's never been all that particular about being... well, particular, so anyones guess is as good as mine.