OMG , today I am amazed

blown away
Astounded
dumbfounded
tricked
believe,
and understand fully that we have never been alone, and that we will never be alone...

Originally posted by Thunderheart
Why the Japanese aren't ruling this world I'll never know, they are clearly superior beings to Caucasians in every way.

Compare this to what DARPA has, you will see caucasians still rule the roost. Not that either is genetically superior, just the way history has turned thus far.

Originally posted by ZombieJesus
Not very impressive, just a combination of proven technologies, but nothing groundbreaking. For all the people saying "getting closer" no, its not. It's based on the same gravity fighting technologies as an airplane and helicopter. When japan makes a sphere that has no rotary propeller and wings, thats when we will be "closer".

On the other hand, I cant wait for Air Hogs to get ahold of the concept, looks like an hour or two of fun on christmas day with the kids

Agreed, I had the same thought. This is not closer to anything, it's really same old technology we have had for a long time. Great useage of that technology to be sure, but that is all.

I am really amazed now and i am sure that it wont take more than 10-15 years for them to add gun and other things to this flying machine and you will see them in the streets and everywere

We had some UAVs for personel like this in testing in Afghanistan. Really nice and robust , hard to break , and could fall from any altitude and not break. Was Spherical like that with 3 cameras on it and was operated by one soldier and it followed us by GPS automatically and the camera would focus directly ahead of us , so we could easily see what was a half a mile or so ahead of us. Battery lasted 192 hours with solar charging while in flight , super quiet. Was told to keep it quiet , but wasnt classified or anything.

It also did a zigzag pattern above us so it didnt ever give our position away exactly , and it used a clear transparent material that reflected light above the UAV , so you couldnt see it unless you were above it , and it was partially transparent , and when you saw it , it was still hard to see because it was just round and just sorta blended in to every thing.

Really nice stuff. Had High Def Camera , and a Thermal Imager , as well as a Guidance camera that you flew the aircraft with , the High def was for viewing actual terrain and points of interest and he carried a pad about the size of a ..... ipad for viewing , and you could move the the aircraft around through the GPS by touch screen , by clicking on a grid point and it would go there , and you had a xbox controller to manually control it , but a finger print would move it to a grid , and it followed you in a search pattern automatically any way.

Really neat toy. Was #in awesome , i hated it when they took it back.

Originally posted by SteveR

Originally posted by Wide-Eyes
Have you played Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3? The Japanese army in that game is amazingly good.

What on earth does that have to do with the topic?

Why are there so many kids on ATS these days?

Ok let's get some context here:

Originally posted by Thunderheart
Why the Japanese aren't ruling this world I'll never know, they are clearly superior beings to Caucasians in every way.

To which I replied:

I think they tried to in the 1940's.

Mentioning Red Alert 3 was relevant because the Japanese army in that game have very advanced technology. This is all relevant to Thunderhearts comment, I replied. Why are you an arse about it? This is a discussion board...

I'm not a kid, I'm 30. So I like games, so do many other adults. Get over it.