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Thought: limits of technology/war

Apr 08, 2007 15:48

So for lack of anything better to do (oh, I could have done a load of wash, I suppose), I ended up channel surfing and came across some violent pornography that stands in for educational television. Of course, I speak of the Discovery Channel's Future Weapons. In any event, the episode was hormonally describing the allegedly awe-inspiring elements ( Read more... )

war, military, iraq, technology, insurgency, usa

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ianmcdonald April 9 2007, 09:45:09 UTC

Oddly, the production that makes Future Weapons is based just downthe road frome me here in Sunny Holywood, Northern Ireland: Waddell Media. As I dayjob in the same line of business, I happen to know that one very good director I've worked with before turned the show down because he thought it was pure Gun Porn.

Gun Porn applez April 9 2007, 14:43:21 UTC

What a small globalised world we live in!

re: Gun Porn - oh my yes it is. Your director associate shows greater taste than most then.

A show like this, and the times they air it, are a white phosphorous 7.62mm round driven through the beating heart of Parental Advisory philosophy.

Re: Gun Porn ext_3059 April 9 2007, 23:49:00 UTC

Don't know that you can shoot WP though hearts. The terminal ballistics aren't great.

-- tom

Re: Gun Porn applez April 10 2007, 04:57:23 UTC

Who needs ballistics when the phosphorous will incinerate in oxygenated blood gases? ;-)