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uncle phil · 07-07-2010, 02:17 AM

mordret · 07-07-2010, 04:10 AM

This is so totally a urban legend... And the guy who invented it was not even well documented :

1/ the radars used to check road speed are very different from the detection and ranging radars aboard warplanes.
2/ the only thing that could make a Early Warning System aboard a fighter-bomber plane react is a Target Acquisition radar, which directs all its energy on one single target, and do not sweep at all : again, this is very different from both a detection radar and a road speed check radar.
3/ the Sidewinder is a short ranged, very light and agile, infrared guided fire-and-forget AIR-TO-AIR missile... It would be absolutely useless against a ground target, although if it exploded near enough, the poor constable would most certainly die...
4/ there is no such thing as "automated protection system" that would fire deadly weapons without the pilot's guidance. Thanks to whoever decided this, we've seen enough of doomsday scenarii in movies where the computers wage war on the poor humans...

Redlemon · 07-07-2010, 06:14 AM

Funny story, and even better correction, mordret.

uncle phil · 07-07-2010, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mordret

This is so totally a urban legend... And the guy who invented it was not even well documented :

1/ the radars used to check road speed are very different from the detection and ranging radars aboard warplanes.
2/ the only thing that could make a Early Warning System aboard a fighter-bomber plane react is a Target Acquisition radar, which directs all its energy on one single target, and do not sweep at all : again, this is very different from both a detection radar and a road speed check radar.
3/ the Sidewinder is a short ranged, very light and agile, infrared guided fire-and-forget AIR-TO-AIR missile... It would be absolutely useless against a ground target, although if it exploded near enough, the poor constable would most certainly die...
4/ there is no such thing as "automated protection system" that would fire deadly weapons without the pilot's guidance. Thanks to whoever decided this, we've seen enough of doomsday scenarii in movies where the computers wage war on the poor humans...

good thing this is tilted humor...

LordEden · 07-07-2010, 01:07 PM

Phil, you should know better. ALL jokes must be correct in terminology and facts to be funny! Jesus man, didn't you get the memo? I want to see all your jokes cited (with researched sources) and with correct terminology at ALL times or it's off to old fogies home, I mean retirement community, with you!

uncle phil · 07-07-2010, 04:56 PM

i apologize from my bottom to my heart...

sheesh...

Ilow · 07-07-2010, 05:18 PM

One more incorrect joke like that Phil, and the Sidewinders are coming for YOU!

Redlemon · 07-08-2010, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by uncle phil

good thing this is tilted humor...

Yup! And this is one of those great situations where the nitpicks are as good as the joke.

07-07-2010, 02:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
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07-07-2010, 06:14 AM	#3 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	Funny story, and even better correction, mordret. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

07-07-2010, 04:56 PM	#6 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	i apologize from my bottom to my heart... sheesh... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-07-2010, 05:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
Ilow Junkie Location: Pats country	One more incorrect joke like that Phil, and the Sidewinders are coming for YOU! __________________ "Religion is the one area of our discourse in which it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about" --Sam Harris

07-07-2010, 04:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
mordret Tilted Location: Metz, France	This is so totally a urban legend... And the guy who invented it was not even well documented : 1/ the radars used to check road speed are very different from the detection and ranging radars aboard warplanes. 2/ the only thing that could make a Early Warning System aboard a fighter-bomber plane react is a Target Acquisition radar, which directs all its energy on one single target, and do not sweep at all : again, this is very different from both a detection radar and a road speed check radar. 3/ the Sidewinder is a short ranged, very light and agile, infrared guided fire-and-forget AIR-TO-AIR missile... It would be absolutely useless against a ground target, although if it exploded near enough, the poor constable would most certainly die... 4/ there is no such thing as "automated protection system" that would fire deadly weapons without the pilot's guidance. Thanks to whoever decided this, we've seen enough of doomsday scenarii in movies where the computers wage war on the poor humans...