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   old

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 13th, 2003 @ 5:44am

   
   

   This is so yesterday.
   BTW, when do we get a new poll ?

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   So you're telling me ...

   

   slim, Aug 13th, 2003 @ 7:23am

   
   

   .... that some model airplane (presumeably remotely controlled by radio by someone in a boat???) went 49.68 miles per hour in a headwind across the Atlantic.
   
   Dude, you may not have been born yesterday, but you probably did just fall off a turnip truck.
   
   LOL

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   Re: So you're telling me ...

   

   dave, Aug 13th, 2003 @ 7:52am

   
   

   flying from Canada to Ireland i believe the plane would have had tailwind across the atlantic. plus it wasn't controlled by radio till it was about to land, it was all GPS navigation. Way to read the story first :D

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   Then

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 13th, 2003 @ 9:04am

   
   

   Could a model plane made in, say, North Korea or Iran put a spray bottle full of germs in the plane and ...?
   

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   Find out more

   

   DL, Aug 13th, 2003 @ 9:06am

   
   

   Main website for the project is here.

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   Re: Then

   

   MissinLnk, Aug 13th, 2003 @ 1:57pm

   
   

   Sure. Of course, you gotta remember that this was the 5th plane to try in this attempt (the other four all went less than 1/3 of the entire route)....and that this wasn't the first attempt. So as long as you're willing to having 9 premature "bombings" in your homeland and in countries near-by... :-)

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   Re: Then

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 13th, 2003 @ 6:06pm

   
   

   It will take trial and error. But once the technology is perfected, what prevents a rogue nation or terrorist from flying a hundred planes over a crowded stadium in a big city?
   

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   Looking Up, Aug 18th, 2003 @ 11:46pm

   
   

   Hey, kids, let's not get paranoid now. This was a MODEL AIRPLANE, not a UAV. The technology already exists for UAVs to deliver payloads to target locations (wanna work for Boeing?), but even so, it's much too technical for terrorists. There are MUCH easier ways to deliver greater terrorist threats than to load something on a tiny airplane and send it off. Besides, it's more fun for them to fly planes into building, themselves, so they can die and be with 70 virgins in the land of Allah.

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