12358e2f0c8e
tech



Hello Jim - 

CA>>> What I see on television they are creating headgear that
CA>>> really does reduce the landscape to nothing more than a
CA>>> video game for the pilots. I guess they think reaction
CA>>> times are faster with a view he/she is familiar with
CA>>> (video games)? 

JB>> i think it's more a matter of filtering out the
JB>> distractions, so to reduce the information overload. 

JH> I'm no expert on modern weapons systems, but I'd have
JH> thought those virtual displays were intended more to
JH> increase the effectiveness of the aviator's interaction and
JH> use of the weapons systems at his/her disposal. 

Seems we're all saying the same things in different ways.
Reducing the view to a video game = less detail = less
distractions = reduced information overload? 

CA>> They say that, yes, but I can't imagine what
CA>> 'distractions' they are referring to other than the sight
CA>> of a city being blown to bits? 

JH> Charles, you've been putting up some posts over the past
JH> week or two which I'd have thought beneath your
JH> intellectual level. You been forgetting to take your meds,
JH> or something?? 

No meds to take. A bit disgruntled that every explanation seems
to be accepted at face value with little to no checks and
balances to validate these hypothesis. I know other people,
older than myself, who are as dissatisfied with the quick
answers as I am. Possible for different reasons but we're not
all convinced everything that is/was known has been told to us. 

That combined with the fact that I am no demolitions expert and
cannot make a value judgement based on any prior knowledge of
similar events. 

JH> Militarily, I think that the actual "blowers of cities to
JH> bits" have pretty much been spared the more 'distracting'
JH> views of their actions for quite awhile, back to field
JH> artillery in WWI, same in WWII, and bomber aircraft in
JH> WWII. Even back in WWII, it was a bit of a "game" view from
JH> elevation say 20K feet. You drop your bombs, you wait
JH> awhile, and then you film when the bombs finally start
JH> striking "targets" at ground level. If they land on or near
JH> their intended targets, you won!! 

That comment was made by a Viet Nam pilot referring to his
active duty overseas (with a grin on his face) that made the
comment a hard one to forget. Killing people should not be that
easy IMO. 

JH> The "distracting" (aka disturbing?) views I think are all
JH> down much closer to ground level. They carefully edited out
JH> the blood, guts, and body parts so we didn't see that part
JH> on TV, but some of the footage we did get to see after the
JH> SEP11 events are what I'd call the disturbing parts. 

I'm confused that we spend all the money we do for GSA, NSA,
FBI, CIA, and others plus spy satellites and can't get advance
warnings of such an event nor locate two missing airliners in
time to force them down (or shoot them down if need be). 

I seriously doubt that if my working lifetime had been spent
managing those organizations that any person or persons who
were a real threat to the USA could cough without my knowing
about it. 

I'm trying to find a way to be as comfortable with the
rationalizations as others seem to be. I have two sons of draft
age and four grandsons that I do not want to see misused the
way Viet Nam vets were misused. AFAIK I am the first generation
of Americans whose peers died for no good reason in a battle we
did not win. Once was one time too many. 

Before anyone asks, no I have never served in the military. 

>
>        ,                                        ,
>      o/      Charles_Angelich  - DOS Ghost       \o       ,
>       __o/
>     / >  www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/  < \   __\__
 

___ * ATP/16bit 2.31 * 
... Xmas Music! www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/snowsc.htm

--- Maximus/2 3.01