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September 30, 2004
security blimp
Before I write anything of substance, I just gotta say "security blimp" out loud a couple of time. You should try it. "Security blimp. Security blimp." Thas some funny shit, and I'm sober like four out of five judges.Yesterday morning, metro DC commuters were shocked to see what at first was assumed to be a UFO (well, if you think about the acronym, duh) or maybe a very cute, slow moving terrorist attack.
But no, it's the Security Blimp, which the US Army was "testing" over the busy streets of our nation's capitol. From what I can gather, it's a big old eye in the sky, as they say, to be used to surveil, or maybe even "spy". It's loaded with cameras and imaging equipment and the like, so it can detect things like troop movements and traffic jams, and really hot pedestrians. Dunno why metro DC is an appropriate place to test something like this, well, except for the really hot pedestrian part.
According to the article linked above, the Army prefers that the blimp be instead referred to as an "airship". Sorry, US Army! A blimp by any other name is still a blimp, Pork Chop! Big Brother has never looked so cute! And slow.
Posted by mrbrent at September 30, 2004 10:26 AM