Boeing completes successful test of air-to-ground laser turret, enemies are teh doomed
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted August 14th 2008 9:35AM
posted August 14th 2008 9:35AM
posted August 14th 2008 9:35AM
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wtf? lasers? O_o
ENEMY UAV IS ONLINE
HAHAHAHA Love the title, picture is perfect
now i want popcorn
Cue teh music..
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughqjbzx2Fk
Damn, you beat me to almost the exact same comment :(.
Sad to say, but I only clicked on the article to see what picture Engadget chose to use.
Thats a beautiful home, it looks an awful lot like, WTF.........
Lol.
I think I'm one of the few people who got your joke, too ;D
We now have the technology to hit the wrong target much more accurately.
at least when you hit the Brit friendlies you'll cremate the evidence
UK: You hit the friendlies again!! Morons!...
US: Er... it wasn't us... must have them terrorists..
UK: what?! there are alot of terrorists flying around in tricked out 747s with lasers on in their noses are there?
Exactly what I was thinking, FuzzyCat.
I am guessing, the wrong target will be a fleet of Airbus A380's. soon the airlines will be the world super powers it will no longer be Capitalist v Communist but two storied vs longer. They will also overpower the banks and take all there monies and then fill the tubes with there media so even when we download movies, there will be BOEING WATERMARKS!! WTF!!. and for the rest of us, has anyone seen teh simpsons episode with the Aliens taking the white house?
soon later Jay's theory of the monkeys taking over, and burrying the statue of liberty in the sand will occur. then it will be 2012.. WHOA.? !!!
Real Genius FTW!!!!
Hehe great movie.
"Are you prepared if gravity were to reverse itself? Only thing I can't figure out is how to keep the change from falling out of my pockets... I've got it! Nudity!"
Does anyone else smell popcorn?
Ice is Nice!
Kent ... this is God. Stop playing with yourself.
"It's times like this that remind me of the immortal words of Socrates when he said, 'I drank WHAT?!?'"
Love that movie; now I'm going to have to look for it on the dollar rack at Best Buy.
now there's an old movie. I forget who played the college kid. Was it Val Kilmer?
Yes.
Yes, there was only one college kid in that movie.
Great Movie.!!.....and yea....I think this was the movie that helped jump start his career.
Lazlo....in the closet........LOL.
Yup - Real Genius.
Great Movie
The guys who made that must have been some real geniuses. I bet Batman was involved.
Am I the only one that thinks such lighthearted posts about weapons are completely inappropriate?
Yes.
Come on now, it's a damn laser mounted on an airplane. If you can't find comedy in that, you must be a sad, lonely person.
If you can't see the total friggin awesomeness of a LASER on an AIRPLANE, then why are you reading Engadget?
rofl, gtfo you hippie
Note to self:
Yeah, seems so.
I agree with you !!!
What most lighthearted peaple seem to forget is that this is only the beginning,and some voice deep inside tells me,that once this industry get's this far,there's no whay back,for one simple reason:MONEY !!!
And you,the taxpayer will give it to them,usefull or not.
Hassen't it allways been like that ?????
Now lasers on angry sea bass...that would be alarming and NOT grounds for humor
@ 'L'
sounds like you didn't have many friends...
or a sense of humor
Go back to your DeathNote
@blade417, yeah, poor me. I'm *so* lonely because I think weapons are not a funny thing...you really must be an awesome psychologist, knowing me inside-out from just a single post!
Unfortunately weapons are essential, otherwise the "bad guys" would be breaking things over the heads of the defenseless and we would all be bowing down to them.
This would limit collateral damage, so you should look at it with a different perspective.
This is great news, pinpoint accuracy to get the job done, without blowing up the neighbors.
Uhm, but jtc970, the bad guys just got an airborne laser, didn't you read the post?
keep it in ur pants, Padme.
its not that big a deal. its barely a weapon. you seriously think there going to fly over Moscow with this bulbous flying chunk of 747, and expect to kickass.
maybe if it was like the Blackbird with this thing. then we would start building bomb shelters.
Kent....Have you been touching yourself???
It really is god....
Oh great. What's next -- lightsabres?
[computer monitor is sliced in half by lightsabre]
Darn.
I swear if this thing knocks over my damn mailbox ill sue those laser'in bastards
f'ing choice. nice work Boeing
Engadget, SUPER solid work on the picture. Real Genius...this makes my day.
Hahaha, loved the reference to that movie from the 80s which i sure as hell dont remember the name, nor the context of what goes down in the movie.... but i do remember the popcorn through the roof!
=]
totally redefining the phrase "pew pew pew"
It's just going to be one bigass PEWWWWWWW now.
Spy 'sappin my laser!
This is awesome.
The interesting part about this laser is obviously its purpose - i mean, what damage can this laser do, that a air to ground missile can't? The keyword is "Plausible Deniability"
Just take a look at page 7 of this briefing:
http://www.nmoia.org/images/NMOPTICS_Briefing_a.ppt
There are three parts who wants to know about an attack:
The attacker, the attacked and the public.
When you use a big fucking laser at something, I'm pretty sure both the attacker and the attacker notices it - no denying there. That leaves the public as the only ones you can plausibly deny it happened to.
...wonderful... a weapon US can use whenever they don't want the public to know they did it. Just when did the US military forget they're the good guys?
Yessss!!! now the US military can go attack all those schools and playgrounds without the damn international media finding out.
Hmmm, what can a LASER do that conventional EXPLOSIVE ordnance can't ... I wonder ... Maybe not BLOW UP limiting collateral damage?
Fair, a laser has uses - but that's still besides the point that an offical paper states that the "problems solved" are:
Technology wins wars
Precision
Speed of Light
Collateral Damage
Plausible Deniability
Lethal to Non-lethal
Reduce Manpower Density
Plausible Deniability... "problem solved, guys."
Wait, how could the US deny it was them that used the laser on the target?
I mean who else has a laser attached to an airplane?