Have you ever seen something in the news that has made you think, “Hmmm… The Terminator movie is actually coming true”?
This story really did it for me.
A Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout UAV strayed into restricted airspace above Washington DC after departing Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland on August 2, the result of a software logic flaw that caused the operator to momentarily lose contact with the drone. Programmed to circle when communications are severed, the chopper failed to follow its failure protocol, instead heading twenty-three miles on a north/northwest trajectory — which could have had serious consequences had it been equipped with 70mm Hydra rocket pods or Hellfire Tankbuster missiles. Although this type of incident is rare, it is not unheard of: last September the Air Force had to take down an MQ-9 Reaper in Afghanistan when it failed to adhere to failure protocols after dropping communications with the ground. At least, that’s what we’d like to believe… the alternative scenario is too frightening to consider.
-Engadget
Its not suprising, therefore, that Lockheed Martin and Kaman’s unmanned helicopter won a US military contract recently, most likely because it didn’t stray towards the White House, and also because you can opt for a human pilot!
I have recently noticed in a lot of new movies that advertising within movies is in abundance and, worryingly, so is subliminal advertising. I started wondering when this trend began. Was it (as suggested by most production companies) since illegal movie downloads started eating into profits, thus causing them to have to explore new lines of revenue? Or is it perhaps something that has always been there and that piracy is just being made a scapegoat of? Honestly it didn’t take long to remember ‘Ice Cold in Alex’ from 1958. Plot summary:
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.
I’ve never seen anything like this before but I like it!
Infographics surround us in the media, in published works both pedestrian and scientific, in road signs and manuals. They illustrate information that would be unwieldy in text form, and act as a visual shorthand for everyday concepts such as stop and go. What I like with movie infographics are that they map out and give the plot or story of a movie in a really enjoyable way. I could look at them for hours.
This rather odd movie by Oliver Laric shows how most things we see in the media are not original and how we have become so used to seeing replication that we do not even notice it anymore.
I thought it was never going to happen, I mean it was 1985 when Back to the Future first showed us the Hoverboard. 25 years later and BOOM! Technology catches up with Science Fiction.
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