I’ve been a fool. Obedient sheep that I am, I believed all those government and scientific reports that laser rifles and hand-held force fields were decades away from reality — if they were possible at all. Cloaked in the dull skepticism of a flat-earther, I naively thought that advances like “Electro-Hypnotizers” and “Ion Ray Guns” […]
From the monthly archives:
June 2005
The Air Force’s bid to take over all of the U.S. military’s flying drones has been shot down, Inside Defense says. Over the years, the various branches of the military have all pursued their own independent, often overlapping, unmanned aerial (UAV) vehicle programs. The result is a giant, jumbled robot menagerie, with over a dozen […]
* Robot snipers to Iraq? (5th item) * Passport screens = suck * What the hell is boost gas? And why should we care? * Iraqi cops = double-agents * Private warriors exposed
Saving pilots’ lives is cool and all. So is holding on to some cash. But one of the biggest reasons why militaries have become so infatuated with robot planes might be the drones’ ability to hang around in the air. Flying a plane is tiring. A pilot can only last so long before he needs […]
I met Elizabeth Visceglia in 1997, and fell in love with her approximately two hours later. Last week, on a sugary beach on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, I finally worked up the guts and good sense to ask her to marry me. She said yes, taking my grandmother’s engagement ring from 1940. Back at the hotel, […]
