From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 14:15:43 MDT
>From: nanowave <nanowave@shaw.ca>
>>Brian D Williams wrote:
>>There is a report on Reuters today that Iraqi Migs have been
>>violating the no-fly zone and chasing after unmanned Predator
>>Drones.
>
>>Wouldn't it be interesting if the next Predators were equipped
>>with Sidewinders rather than Hellfires.
>
>>Mike Lorrey grab your tools and meet me...
>Yes I agree that might be "interesting" from a purely
>technological angle - which I'm sure is what you meant.
You're wrong, I threw that idea out there in the hope that it might
be seen and adopted, in case no one else had thought of it.
>It might also be interesting to give a flicker of thought to the
>fact that your proposal implies the incineration, molecular
>dissociation, decapitation or whatever of a sentient being that
>comes equipped with dreams, desires, pain receptors, a mother, a
>father - maybe a brother, or perhaps a dog that wags its tail when
>the pilot returns home at the end of the day.
>From a day of gassing the Kurds? Like the terrorists who commited
9-11, they are beyond any sympathy from me, the best they can count
on is a boat-tailed .308.
>No debate from me on whether military planners should be
>influenced by such "interesting" thoughts however - they probably
>shouldn't. Should we think about them when chatting on a mailing
>list that deals with the idea of improving humans? Well there, you
>just did ;-)
Look for me to do everything possible to support the forces of
Extropy over those of entropy.
Brian
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