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Comment Twitter is for idiots (Score 1) 121

Lets consider some common terms.

"Consumer"
"Brand Loyalty"

People are consistently manipulated via the media, their buying choices, their humor, their self identification, their politics, think about an environment where you are not exposed to some sort of advertising, propaganda, or other negative stimulus.

Do you have an environment like that?
We are drowning in a sea of media manipulation, and most can't see it as they have grown up with it.

Comment UWB RAdar (Score 2) 139

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ultra-wideband is also used in "see-through-the-wall" precision radar-imaging technology,[10][11][12] precision locating and tracking (using distance measurements between radios), and precision time-of-arrival-based localization approaches.[13] It is efficient, with a spatial capacity of approximately 1013 bit/s/m.[citation needed] UWB radar has been proposed as the active sensor component in an Automatic Target Recognition application, designed to detect humans or objects that have fallen onto subway tracks.[14]

Comment Tired of stupid questions (Score 1) 290

Given that the course of hypersonic research has acknowledged both of these concerns, why have several countries started testing the weapons?"

Because every country has a Military Industrial Complex that needs to be fed, and every country has people that... well in the words of General "Buck" Turgidson: "Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!"

So asking questions like "Why?" is silly, it's obvious why.

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