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"The Gun Is Civilization" by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)
Mali:
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on January 13, 2017, 05:51:18 PM --- The latest iteration of TrackingPoint's Linux powered gun sight, being developed for the military, will reach out 3,000 meters and touch a 16" target traveling 20m/s.
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HAD to bring out the Linux thing didn't you? ;D
You are correct that our weapons get more and more efficient at mass casualty in less time and that is a scary thing. Someday we may actually have a "Death Star" level weapon. I won't be alive to see it, but it is a likely scenario.
GreyGeek:
--- Quote from: Mali on January 16, 2017, 12:44:32 PM ---HAD to bring out the Linux thing didn't you? ;D
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Yup. I hate to see people exploited by Microsoft and Apple and still get infected with malware.
--- Quote from: Mali on January 16, 2017, 12:44:32 PM ---You are correct that our weapons get more and more efficient at mass casualty in less time and that is a scary thing. Someday we may actually have a "Death Star" level weapon. I won't be alive to see it, but it is a likely scenario.
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And, they'll get smaller and thus more portable. We have GPS guided bombs. With modern GPS we can target to within 2.5 cm (1 inch). I can see bullets fired into arcs that use miniature electronics to guide the projectile to within +- 1 inch at five miles, the shooter not even being able to see the target. Just an airborne or spaceborne targeting system that feeds constant updates to the projectile in flight as the target moves.
Watching Jihadi and Syrian videos of the war there points out that most "warriors" just stick their AK47 up in the air so the muzzle is above the wall or mound, and sprays lead down range. That is a LOT of Lead pollution that will come back to poison future inhabitants. One bullet could do the job if existing technology were used. Linux is free. The software which does the trajectory calculations and the hardware which controls the barrel is not free. That's where the cost is. But, economy of scale could drop the cost to the commodity basement.
Using three or four wifi routers positioned around a house or a building I can measure the reflected energy and create an interior map of the house, and images of the people inside of it. One can even detect beating hearts by the doppler shift. Weapons exist now that could shoot through the walls and hit that heart, if it were known exactly where to point them. Now we have that technology.
How about insect size drones that fly over, around and through barriers and contain a miniature hypodermic with a milligram of a potent neurotoxin? Just flying into the face, arms, back of the neck or the scalp ... and a minute later the target is dead.
And there are so many more things most people never think of or read about.
Kendahl:
--- Quote from: depserv on January 10, 2017, 02:52:27 PM ---I don't have historical statistics to back it up, but I have always assumed this to be likewise true of violence between individuals. In debates with anti-gun bigots I have asked them to show me a historical correlation between firearm development and an increase in murder rate, because if what they say about there being something special about guns that makes there widespread distribution result in a higher murder rate, we should be able to look back and see murder rate go up with each improvement in guns. But no one has ever been able to show me such a correlation.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker discusses the more or less steady decline in violence from human prehistory to modern times. The Omaha Public Library has a copy.
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