From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 08:42:39 MST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Wiik" <mwiik@messagenet.com>
To: "extropians" <extropians@tick.javien.com>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: IRAQ: Fire the script writer, please
> Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > This was hyped as the TV event of the season,
> > but so far it has been a big letdown. The audience is disappointed.
> > All that anticipation has been build up, but there's no war in
> > sight. Not only has the climax been delayed, it may never happen
> > at all. Lousy script that.
>
> Just as with the Lord of the Rings movie, which wasn't released in all
> its expanded DVD glory till a year after the theatrical release, the
> best video from our new war won't show up till long after the event. For
> instance, on Cryptome they linked to a neat film of an AC-130 gunship
> firing its weapons on hapless Afghanis. It was neat to see the effort,
> in terms of 105mm shells expended, to kill just one guy! It was an
> infrared video, and the people-targets were all lit up like glowing
> stick figures. Coolest part was when they finally hit this one guy and
> you can see a severed limb flying off, still glowing with body heat!
>
> But sadly, you won't see that on CNN.
>
> And it's not like we don't have the technology. Look at those souped-up
> M16's our troops have now. It doesn't seem like it would take much extra
> weight to add a small camera on each weapon so each kill-shot could be
> recorded for posterity. Perhaps editted into a family video for the
> widow and orphans.
>
> I think having more video would make everybody much more supportive of
> the war. It should be possible to have a little camera on each bomb or
> artillery shell. In fact, I think the U.S. should personalize each and
> every bomb, give it it's own URL and let children post messages which
> would be printed via some sort of hand-held dot-matrix printer on the
> munition as it's loaded. Combine this with the camera on the bomb
> transmitting it's last image so you could actually match up individual
> dead iraqis with the bomb that killed them. Then the kids could write
> the Iraqi widows and orphans explaning why their husbands and fathers
> had to die, and it'd all be archived for future historians.
>
> -Mike
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