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1 posted on 02/15/2016 6:54:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
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Just a minor point. Current day writers assume everyone knows what an acronym stands for— they don’t. The article should have simply stated this in a sentence: “unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).” But then again most writers never learned it.


2 posted on 02/15/2016 7:02:45 PM PST by Fungi
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They’ve been working on this for quite some time. Back in WWII, they experimented with using wasps as navigators in B-17 Bombers.

“Pilot to navigator. Pilot to navigator. What is our current position?”

“Bzzzzz. Bzzzzz. Bzzzzz.”

“What the hell did he say? ‘Bzzzzz’? Where is that? Andy, can you understand him?”

“Well, Skipper, I think he said we’re by a tree.”

“That’s it! Try the duck.”


3 posted on 02/15/2016 7:02:57 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: BenLurkin

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants because #patriarchy! (Sorry, I had to! It’s too tense here lately!)


4 posted on 02/15/2016 7:04:47 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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Great. Just what we need - clouds of pilotless drones circling our soda cans at picnics...
5 posted on 02/15/2016 7:05:31 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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