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k310 | 3 days ago

Accidentally

https://archive.ph/Oh6gF

The same laser system (Locust) shut down El Paso International Airport, apparently defending the U.S. from a party balloon.

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toomuchtodo|3 days ago

Godspeed for anyone transiting the airspace where these devices are active.

peddling-brink|2 days ago

They are going to shoot down an airliner, then blame Anthropic and the Democrats.

fruitworks|2 days ago

just tell em to wear their disintegration-proof vest

reacharavindh|2 days ago

I mean, wouldn’t an even slightest clever adversary do just that? Launch a bunch of decoys(party balloons, drones, whatever) amidst one they actually want to actually use as an attack vector? Would the pentagon just play an expensive pew pew and potentially miss the real one?