U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be Huge for UFO Reporting

Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:57AM (#20400302)

> “Craft using an inertial mass reduction device”

My internal cynic would guess that it's a joint public-private promotional stunt for Mass Effect. The whole backstory of this sci-fi was that they found a substance that could do exactly that.

"Oh look, US Navy has a patent for eezo-powered drive!"

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Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by dTal on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @05:35AM (#20400440)

My reaction: "Ohhhhh, duh!"

You don't normally expect this kind of nonsense from government, but the US military is heavily into media tie-ins, mainly film and video games. I'd bet 5 dollars you just nailed it.

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Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by freeflight on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @06:06AM (#20400565)

Is that also why they put literal SKYNET [0] in charge of telling us who to drone?

Just can't get over that one, either somebody in the NSA has a really dark sense of humor or people working there must be living in some kind of pop-culture vacuum.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...

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