Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
kalmar wrote:
Is any of that even vaguely true? Man appears to be the UK version of a freeper headcase.
Oh, he's pretty nuts, indeed. But that doesn't make his suggestion any less potentially cunning a way for terrorists to ju-jitsu the security forces.
Hmph, I'm not convinced of that threat - terrorists appear to be fucking idiots by and large, or they'd already have mastered landing large lumps of plastic explosive from R/C aircraft, or any of the dozens of far simpler techno hacks described by other techno-thriller-dabbling novelists..
Spoofing ground to air missiles? Seriously? There's lower hanging fruit than that.
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Squirt wrote:
They're not very big missiles, so there wouldn't be very much white-hot, high-speed shrapnel.
Granted. But, on the whole, any amount of white-hot, high-speed shrapnel impacting my cornflakes as I eat breakfast is more than I'd prefer to see.
Massive physics fail there anyway, IMO. Any "shrapnel" from the missile itself will be neither white hot nor at supersonic speed by the time it reached the ground, a moderate hailstorm would probably cause more damage to your breakfast.
Not to say I'd want a battery of the things on my roof, but that blog post was some hysterical rubbish