Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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