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US warns China after lasers injure American pilots in Africa
The United States has issued a formal warning to China after personnel at the Asian country's military base in Djibouti used lasers to interfere with U.S. military aircraft, minorly injuring two pilots, according to the Pentagon.
Top Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White told reporters Thursday that the U.S. is confident the Chinese are behind the "very serious incidents," which have increased in the past few weeks.
"There have been two minor injuries. This activity poses a true threat to our airmen. We have formally demarched the Chinese government. And we've requested that that Chinese investigate these incidents," White said during a Pentagon briefing.
The U.S. government, meanwhile, has warned airmen to be cautious when flying in certain areas in Djibouti, in Africa, due to the recent incidents.
Also at CNN.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 04 2018, @05:53PM (6 children)
You call it murder. I call it pranking the prankster. Or, we could call it wanking the wanker. Whatever we call it, I'm with Darwin. Only the fittest should survive, and obviously, these wankers aren't fit.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday May 04 2018, @06:53PM (5 children)
Do you even understand (of course you fucking don't, I'm being rhetorical...) what Darwin meant by "fittest?" No? Then shut your stinking gob.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 04 2018, @11:16PM (4 children)
Don't start talking shit, Zumi. Of course I understand Darwin. Which part do you need explained? The part where stupid bastards fucking with heavily armed planes/tanks/troops/ships don't stand a chance of accomplishing anything, other than causing death to rain from the skies?
Go watch that video again - the one called "collateral murder". People die, for real, and their children with them. Survival of the fittest. It isn't a game, there is no reset, no power-up, nothing but death.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday May 05 2018, @04:32AM (3 children)
So you *don't* actually know what Darwin meant by "fitness." Thanks for confirming it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 05 2018, @01:48PM (2 children)
In nature, traits that contribute to survival to sexual maturity, and reproduction, are selected for. Traits that don't aid in survival to sexual maturity tend to be weeded out.
Now - I'm a big, bad, terrist mofo, and I'm pissed at the USA. So, I go out whenever possible, just to fuck with them. I've heard that lasers blind pilots, so I start waving a laser around when 'Murican aircraft are near. I get by with that little thrill for awhile - but one night, the jet flew over, and disappeared, only for six Apache helicopters to pop up over the trees. I quickly jump into a ditch to take cover, but that doesn't save my three wives and eighteen children sleeping in the hovel behind me. All of them dead, and I can't even find enough of their bodies for proper funerals. Darwin award, 21 times - three wives, and eighteen children, blown into eternity without passing my DNA on to the next generation.
Now, try one more time to convince me that you understand Darwin better than I do. The terrist mofo just ain't fit!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday May 05 2018, @05:07PM (1 child)
*rolls eyes*
If he already had kids then, newsflash, he was sexually mature and already reproduced. Evolution is not some teleological force. From a purely reproductive standpoint, the "terr'ists" are *more* fit than most Americans, and I have to wonder sometimes if there's some kind of subconscious understanding of that in our armed forces. Or in your mind, since you seem obsessed with levelling the playing field (and everything else for miles around).
War is not a case of genetic unfitness. It is not something wrong with the genome, it does not, for example, produce lazy sperm or mutations incompatible with life. No, war is something *we* do. You really want to conflate character traits or behavior (or culture...) with genes so you can point to Darwin and say "See? They DESERVED to die!" to ease what remains of your own conscience. It doesn't work like that.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 06 2018, @02:06AM
92nd percentile short circuit?
Mankind takes years to mature. Mankind requires constant nurturing in the first years of life. Our terrist hero has managed to nullify all the nurturing given to his offspring - which sorta kinda translates to an erasure of his sexual achievements, as well as the achievements of his three wives.
You, our sheltered American female member, seem to think that only adult males die in war. Women and children around the world would be happy to correct that belief.