11.09.10

Cult of EMP Crazy and other things: What He Said

Posted in Crazy Weapons at 8:58 am by George Smith

At ph2dot1, it is written:

Every so often you come across items that are simply begging for the “Dick Destiny” treatment! An example: Seven Terror Tech Trends.

And some of them are:

“… new forms of airborne attack… model aircraft as “a homemade cruise missile??? or even building a model sailplane out of plastic or composites with a pound or two of explosives and something to serve as shrapnel,??? the presenter said. Such a craft could evade radar and penetrate no fly zones to hit specified targets such as “the next presidential inauguration,??? he said. “Let’s call this a homemade cruise missile???

Terrorist cyber ops…

“Dirty” bombs… Oh, and EMP bombs too… which the terrorists would promptly use to target… the Internet!

“DIY bio-chemical weapons”… and “genetically targeted pathogens” Apparently the latter have been spotted “in several decades…”

“Mass-effect things that go bang.???

Engineered bio-weapons. Hmm, what could these be? “… man-made bacteria designed to take out entire cities… “malignant nanomaterials??? designed to “eat building materials??? and devour vehicle lubricants.”

I missed it. My bad.

ph2dot1 does what’s needed, even including the Strangelove shot of Sterling Hayden.

The only mildly remarkable thing is the Army still wasting effort on premature ejaculates and Toffler-ian turds that were old a long time ago — particularly the evergreens of microbes that eat buildings, microbes for eating specific kinds of people, electromagnetic pulse bomb suitcases, and so forth.

Ten years ago it was hilarious and exciting to read tortured crap from some US Army man going on about ESP, telekinesis and computer viruses that could cause heart failure in a leadership journal for officers.

Now it’s really long in the tooth.

“Security Error” announces my browser upon hitting the Army’s Unified Quest website.

Unconvincing at being forward-looking.

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