Yeah sorry, that did sound smug, but I didn't mean it to be. It was internal amusement at the stuff the tinfoil crowd comes up with that probably should have stayed in my head rather than ending up in an HN comment.
Thomas,
It's smug because he has professional experience with the topic and few others here do. From previous comments: 'runjake is in his 40s, served in the military (I'm presuming the USAF)
Yep.
did EE/CS stuff with the ICBM program, and did some kind of work the UAV control system
Yep, but I wasn't in the ICBM program, rather I worked with air-launched/dropped nukes. I did not work directly on any modern UAV systems. I worked with their 1990s precursors: air-launched autonomous (conventional/nuke) cruise missiles.
It is possible that he is just making that stuff up, but it's (a) unlikely and (b) pointless and boring to debate it.
Yeah sorry, that did sound smug, but I didn't mean it to be. It was internal amusement at the stuff the tinfoil crowd comes up with that probably should have stayed in my head rather than ending up in an HN comment.
Thomas,
It's smug because he has professional experience with the topic and few others here do. From previous comments: 'runjake is in his 40s, served in the military (I'm presuming the USAF)
Yep.
did EE/CS stuff with the ICBM program, and did some kind of work the UAV control system
Yep, but I wasn't in the ICBM program, rather I worked with air-launched/dropped nukes. I did not work directly on any modern UAV systems. I worked with their 1990s precursors: air-launched autonomous (conventional/nuke) cruise missiles.
It is possible that he is just making that stuff up, but it's (a) unlikely and (b) pointless and boring to debate it.
Yep.