i had to doublecheck if this was 'onion news network'
i mean, jesus.. is this supposed to be real tv?

there's loads of pictures and video of WW2 dog fights
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=ww2+gun+camera&search_sort=relevance

edit; damn, thought i was first to point it out.. posting a comment on an old open window

oh, and also something else that's interesting..
the US had by the end of the war remote controlled missiles that sent live video back to the controller
i don't know if any footage or pictures of it exist anymore, but it's pretty damn cool considering how early it was even for radio
never got a chance to test them in action though

"vote according to your frontal, not yer hind brains"

^ if you tell us why any of this shit is worth a single vote?

skynet doesn't stand a chance

>> ^alizarin:
...

You make the error of thinking "SkyNet".

We, as in you and me and every one of our children, are NOT dying out..

We, as in biological humans, ARE..

Not in the sense of genocide, but plain old fashioned extinction.

We are already replacing our bones and heart valves and such for artificial ones, and soon entire limbs.

It's only a matter of time until the entire body and biological genetic material is replaced.

All WE are, we as in our individuality and intellect, is just data.. information in a container made of the flesh of our forefathers.

In the future when resources are running thin, it is not only a way of life - it's the only way of life.. biological life is horribly expensive.

>> ^ponceleon:
Now I want Patrick Stuwart's voice on my GPS... "Just a right up here... right here... yes."

probably quite possible.

he probably says all the necessary words here..
and if not, there's surely fillers on the seven seasons of startrek.

stuff like this is quite easy to make
hardest part is to get the camera movements to look good
if i was making it, i would have made the shuttle multilayered and shifted the layers around a bit so it would look 3d
or make it actual 3d and project the detail texture on it.. just having a reflective glint on a surface makes it look ten times more real
looks good though

>> ^MaxWilder:
I love the end where they show off its specs like an unlockable weapon or vehicle in a video game.

they even used some of the same sounds as in terminator: future shock


i wonder if they'll shoot it straight to it's destination or park it on orbit for assembly first
being such a complicated and precise instrument, and knowing all the trouble we went through with hubble, i would think it dumb to launch it and just trust that it will work

Well, at that distance there would be NO shock wave.
Much closer by there would be a small burst of plasma that would probably punch a few holes in ISS seams and destroy solar panels, but the intensity of the light would be the bigger worry, burning and melting every surface, starting fires inside the station through what light gets through the windows.
Also, the way i understand it though, the ISS would be pretty much untouched by any EMP.
It takes a considerable length of wire to induce power failures, and the ISS is probably protected from surges more than usual, being in space and all - as long as it's not too close to the blast.
Nukes would look damn awesome from orbit, but nothing like that.

the embed is about the haiti earthquake
link in comment works though

yes, wasting 24% of my time manually sorting a minuscule fraction of the entire fucking internet is a real source of angst for me
eh?
considering the enormity of the task at hand, i'd say search engines do a pretty darn good job

well done video though.. if the actions were more believable one might mistake it as an episode of cops or something

*dead

eh
*blocked
hulu should go there automatically

goddamn this so infuriates me
EVERY SINGLE LCD SCREEN IS TRANSPARENT
and we've had those since the eighties
they just have a white plastic sheet behind it to catch the light from the edges
oleds are damn cool for a number of reasons but dammit, this is not one of them

the android webkit browser better support extensions
i don't like wasting my precious bandwidth for useless flash ads