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- From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
- Subject: Re: The Future of the Bike
- Message-ID: <C19o5A.40H@geovision.gvc.com>
- Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
- Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
- References: <C0x9B1.JM6@hpchase.rose.hp.com> <129480001@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:48:45 GMT
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- slo@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Loughran) writes:
-
- >And then there's VR - Oakley could integrate some ex-military Head-Up Display
- >kit into their next generation of 'shades. These could make that journey
- >into work safer and more interesting by providing real time threat assessment
- >of all other road users, along with a list of possible "solutions"...
-
- Just show me how to attach an AMRAAM or Phoenix CIWS to my bike, and I'll be
- happy. ``OC Transpo Bus approaching from behind on intersect course, engage
- and destroy''
-
- Glossary for non-sci.miltary readers:
- AMRAAM: Advanced Medium Range Air-Air Missile (currently being field tested
- in Iraq).
- Phoenix CIWS: Close In Weapon System - those things that look like R2D2 on
- the topsides of navy ships. A 30mm canon firing Depleted Uranium rounds for
- shooting down sea-skimming cruise missiles and other threats at close range.
-
- --
- Paul Tomblin (pt@compass.gvc.com) I don't make or state policy for GeoVision.
- Usenet, n:
- An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making
- a disagreeable person keep his distance. -- Paraphrased from Ambrose Bierce.
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