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k-krack 01.21.2007 08:11 PM

Big Brother has an eye in the sky.
 
YOU ARE BEING WATCHED.

According to a summary released by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, the HAA can watch over a circle of countryside 600 miles in diameter. That’s everything between Toledo and New York City. And they want to build 11. With high-res cameras, that could mean constant surveillance of every square inch of American soil.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlin...ther_s_New_Toy

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Last week, a fire ignited at the Akron Airdock that once housed a fleet of Goodyear blimps. Firemen rushed to the 211-foot-tall structure and quickly doused the flames. Reporters and photographers descended on the landmark. Many were surprised to learn the blimps were no longer being stored there.

Turns out Lockheed Martin -- the company that gave us the Trident intercontinental ballistic missile -- was renovating the site for an upcoming project when the fire started. It's being turned into a hangar for a prototype airship. If you're frightened of this administration's habit of spying on American citizens, you may want to stop reading.

The prototype is called the High Altitude Airship, or HAA. Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors in Akron won the $40 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to build HAA in 2003. It is essentially another blimp. A giant one. Seventeen times the size of the Goodyear dirigible. It's designed to float 12 miles above the earth, far above planes and weather systems. It will be powered by solar energy, and will stay in a geocentric orbit for up to a year, undetectable by ground-based radar. You can't see it from the ground. But it can see you.

"The possibilities are endless for homeland security," says Kate Dunlap, a Lockheed Martin spokesperson. "It could house cameras, and other surveillance equipment. It would be an eye in the sky."

According to a summary released by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, the HAA can watch over a circle of countryside 600 miles in diameter. That's everything between Toledo and New York City. And they want to build 11. With high-res cameras, that could mean constant surveillance of every square inch of American soil. "If you had a fleet of them, this could be used for border surveillance," suggests Dunlap.

Launch date: 2009.

ALIEN ANAL 01.21.2007 08:17 PM

damn, no more public masturbation

!@#$%! 01.22.2007 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by ALIEN ANAL
damn, no more public masturbation


on the contrary. exhibitionists will be thrilled.

Malachi_Constant 01.22.2007 03:15 AM

I've really gotta get the fuck up out of this country. Either that or study law. Can't decide.

SynthethicalY 01.22.2007 03:16 AM

Study law and become a lwayer, then governor,finally achieve success as the President.

Malachi_Constant 01.22.2007 03:20 AM

Nah. I'm way too open about my drug use.

SynthethicalY 01.22.2007 03:25 AM

Well you could claim redemption, and call yourself a born-again christian. so forth.

!@#$%! 01.22.2007 03:29 AM

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Originally Posted by SynthethicalY
Well you could claim redemption, and call yourself a born-again christian. so forth.


that donkey fuck! yes he did it that way. obama on the contrary chronicles his coke us in a book. which i hope won't come back to bit him in the ass. at this point it shouldn't.

anyway i should go crash... or get off the internet actually, or i'll never get anything done! :D

good nites.

SynthethicalY 01.22.2007 03:30 AM

Later, me too, I have school in the morning, later.

Malachi_Constant 01.22.2007 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by SynthethicalY
Well you could claim redemption, and call yourself a born-again christian. so forth.


Fuck that. Rather start my own cult.


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