"Another way to look at is, how many people would have died if those same missions were carried out by manned aircraft/troops? Perhaps more (though I don't have figures, so I don't know).

I sort of agree on the "dehumanizing" aspect though. War is…"

"I wonder at what level this decision (to not encrypt) was actually made. Surely there must have been more than a few engineers and managers to whom an unencrypted video feed sounded like a bad idea...I wonder who in the end actually decided it was…"

"Just out of curiosity (I've never logged telemetry before) -- why is a separate datalogger required? I assume at least many of the people on this site have a ground station they send telemetry to, so why not just record into a file as you go? Can a…"

"Yeah, I've had visions of my UAV plunging toward the ground or stalling then plunging toward the ground because of the lack of orientation info. I do think, from what I've seen of the EasyStar, that I'll be able to do short test flights without…"

"Yes, those fireworks were CGI, but I think one of the announcers on the NBC broadcast said so, or at least alluded to that fact -- I remember hearing something to that effect while I was watching the broadcast."

"Hmm, sounds very interesting, but I'm not sure I understand exactly how you would apply chaos theory to an autopilot. Granted, I haven't studied chaos theory very much, but my understanding of it is the "butterfly effect": the fact that an extremely…"