Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] War...what is it good for?
From: "Michael E. Bérubé" <MEB@goodphotos.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:27:12 -0500
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At 12:39 PM 3/22/01 -0800, Guy Bennett wrote:
>Now, rather than PJ sporting D1s with zooms, imagine if they could built
>tiny digital cameras into the tips of bullets and program them to run
>continuously from the moment of firing to the moment of impact, then link
>all of those streaming images to a site on the web (with an address like
>"kill'emall.com") where they could be viewed 24/7. On the same site, a link
>to similar streaming video shot from the noses of falling bombs, live
>webcam footage of the mutilated and dying in military hospitals on both
>sides, all accompanied by non-stop live CNN-type coverage by military
>experts speaking through interpreters in a variety of languages in
>streaming mpeg movies.
>
>Wouldn't that be neat.

I know that was tongue in cheek, but do you think that such "coverage" in 
today's world would help stop war or just sell a lot of advertising flights?
Michael

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