Category: To be used for Evil

Was it a Nuke?

North Korea

 

 

As all the news sources are saying the explosion that was detected in North Korea today was equivalent to less than a kilo tone of TNT I’m asking the question was it a nuclear device? We won’t know this answer until some form of radioactivity can be measured from the test. Not a whole bunch is released from an underground test so it could be that Kim Jong-il and his boys are pulling a fast one. At any rate I’d like to think that this is the case. At least the new prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, visited China and has at least gotten them to agree that North Korea having nuclear arms is a bad thing.

Large Explosion Detected in North Korea

North Korea

 

 

 

Various news outlets are reporting that a large, and quite possibly nuclear, underground explosion happened a short time ago in North Korea. The explosion is currently estimated at only 550 tones of TNT. The U.S. Geological Survey also reports it had detected a 4.2 magnitude quake in North Korea at 10:35 local time (0135 GMT).

Wired Nextfest 2006

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I had the happy accident of seeing a sign for the Wired Nextfest in a subway on Tuesday and made it one of the last things on the big list for NYC.
Holy crap, all the time I was there I kept thinking Roy Batty’s line from Blade Runner "I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…’ This was stuff that I had blogged about or read of in magazines…

Flickr photoset Wired Nextfest 2006 

Robotic Bomber On The Way

New robo bomber

 

The military hates to let a cool idea die, the J-UCAS smart drone was supposed to be an un manned areal vehicle that could take out the enemy or jam radar systems. Pretty much it was going to be tasked with trail blazing the way for manned missions into hostile territory. Not an all together bad idea, who likes to be shot at? However, after possible budget considerations, the idea of using this platform as an upgrade to the  long range bomber fleet. With China fast becoming a replacement for our cold war adversary this tool may be just the thing we need to maintain balance in the world.

Defense Tech: Killer Drone, Dead; New Bomber Lives

Robotic Frisbees of Death

Disc UAVsReminds me of a certain flying camera that I blogged about a while back. Except the part about shooting molten metal at the targets that is…

 "The 3-D maneuverability of the Frisbee-UAV [unammned aerial vehicle] will provide revolutionary tactical access and lethality against hostiles hiding in upper story locations and/or defiladed behind obstacles," the company promises. The circular drones will be lanuched "from munitions dispensers or by means of a simple mechanism similar to a shotgun target (skeet) launcher," Triton adds. Once in the air, they’ll be tele-operated by soldiers on the ground. Or, if needed, the fightin’ frisbees will pilot themselves as they hunt for guerrillas. Once they catch up to the baddies, the drones will use a series of armor-piercing explosives, shooting jets of molten metal, to eliminate their targets.

Defense Tech: Robotic Frisbees of Death