ION, Robot Wars: The 6 scariest unmanned aerial vehicles

This one is the newest and hasn't flown yet:

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Behold the future of aerial drones — this one could be the scariest of them all. It's designed to be launched either from land or catapult-launched from ships, and could be refueled in midair, letting it fly indefinitely. This stealthy 19-foot-long aircraft will have the smarts to carry out its own missions, and the looks to carry 4500 pounds of bombs, missiles, and surveillance gear. There's even talk of loading it up with lasers and microwave weapons. Look out, everyone, because this is the flying killer robot of your nightmares.

It seems like the days of piloted close support missions are coming to an end.

It seems like the days of piloted close support missions are coming to an end.

Yeah, at least for dangerous missions where there's strong anti-aircraft defenses.

Wow, catching up was a little terrifying. I think tommy may need some time away from google.

HA. Tommyrot = googlefu.

I am back from the DMV where I had a super pleasant DMV worker (who made a special March of Dimes donation card for Grace! With red hearts!) and it took less than hour for TWO transactions AND I was able to get my license renewed early because I already had an appointment.

And in other flowing with bureaucracy news, I have an appointment with social security tomorrow and I got a letter today from Medi-cal saying I needed to go to Social Security and sign her up for Medicare. This, my friends, is serendipity!

(AND we bought another new car seat. Please do not ask how many car seats we have purchased because I lost count around 6, but the one in K's car had a giant slab of sytrofoam fall off that Noah picked up, asking, "What's this?")

Hokay, I'm missing something here. Who can wear pigtails? chart. How can Zooey Deschanel's pigails be more questionable than Tila Tequila's? How can they be more infantilising than Baby Spice's? And I don't even really like Zooey. Some of those are just kids. Some of those are women working the Lolita angle. Some of those are women whose hair is worn in two. She's awfully dramatic and naysaying with the whole "can't do this over 19" angle.

Signed,
Mutton.

Timelies all!

Brief, heavy rainstorm here. Meanwhile, Nova is staring intently at a bug. Yeah, my life is exciting.

Some of those are women whose hair is worn in two.

raises hand I'm wearing pigtails right now, because it's an easy way to keep my hair semi-controlled under my hat without putting it up in a bun.

The pigtail thing cracked me up! The article is, well, tone deaf.

The author is also apparently a child, which makes it even creepier.