Apache Warrior
The folks at Gravitas Ventures wanted me to tell you about their movie “Apache Warrior” which will be out in limited release November 3rd and on demand on December 12th;
Not every mission goes according to plan.
Apache Warrior is a feature-length documentary that puts the viewer in the cockpit of an Apache helicopter during one of the most intense missions in aviation history. Telling the story of an elite U.S. Army Aviation Squadron, this film highlights the adaptability, courage and selflessness of Apache pilots and their crews as they launch an attack during the initial surge into Iraq in March, 2003. The mission unfolds in near real time as these heroic soldiers fight to stay alive.
Category: Who knows
BAD.ASS
Technology keeps improving.
“Here are some of my favorite of Ray Kurzweil’s predictions for the next 25+ years.
If you are an entrepreneur, you need to be thinking about these. Specifically, how are you going to capitalize on them when they happen? How will they affect your business?
By the late 2010s, glasses will beam images directly onto the retina. Ten terabytes of computing power (roughly the same as the human brain) will cost about $1,000.
By the 2020s, most diseases will go away as nanobots become smarter than current medical technology. Normal human eating can be replaced by nanosystems. The Turing test begins to be passable. Self-driving cars begin to take over the roads, and people won’t be allowed to drive on highways.
By the 2030s, virtual reality will begin to feel 100% real. We will be able to upload our mind/consciousness by the end of the decade.
By the 2040s, non-biological intelligence will be a billion times more capable than biological intelligence (a.k.a. us). Nanotech foglets will be able to make food out of thin air and create any object in physical world at a whim.
By 2045, we will multiply our intelligence a billionfold by linking wirelessly from our neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud.
I want to make an important point.
It’s not about the predictions.
It’s about what the predictions represent.
Ray’s predictions are a byproduct of his (and my) understanding of the power of Moore’s Law, more specifically Ray’s “Law of Accelerating Returns” and of exponential technologies.
These technologies follow an exponential growth curve based on the principle that the computing power that enables them doubles every two years.
As humans, we are biased to think linearly.
As entrepreneurs, we need to think exponentially.”
From:
https://singularityhub.com/2015/01/26/ray-kurzweils-mind-boggling-predictions-for-the-next-25-years/
I’m probably denser than most rocks, but I fail to see the relevance of this extended quote to the topic.
Technology?
“Technology?” So what, Yef?
This is a movie about the events surrounding an Army Aviation Squadrons’ crews’ experiences in 2003, judging from the blurb.
Technology is involved, I suppose. Just like in most aspects of life.
What relevance these predictions, to which I give about as much credence as I do to a gypsy palm reader’s, have to a movie about wartime events in 2003 escapes me.
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Just never let her know where you live.
SNERK
Tho’, IME, a devoted wife is even better.
But is more expensive…
Think of it as an investment.
YMMV, but I have found over the past four decades that my wife has saved me a ton of money.
For one thing, I have no alimony payments or child support for kids I never see.
Now the child & grandchild support for the kids I do see…
“IME, a devoted wife is even better.”
Yep. Especially if she’s hot!
What?
We are talking about leadership, courage and deadly weapons platforms.
We are not taking about technology.
Why do you hate technology so much?
Why do you spam so much. Your post was off topic and and unwanted.
I don’t hate technology.
I hate the village idiot who can’t stay in his lane.
I got it, you hate Dave.
Why are you so mean?
This thread is on a movie about Apache Pilots and you go off yapping about technology like a cherry 2LT fresh out of college!
It’s against Yef’s religion to click on video links, so he really doesn’t know what the post is about.
Well, my employers’ internet policy won’t allow me to click [successfully] on video links, and I could deduce the general idea… so there’s that excuse down the toilet.
Is it that obvious?
I read way faster than people talk, that’s why I prefer to read than watch.
The only thing cherry around here, is the color of your hair.
He’s an orthodox dumbass.
Now I am really, really, offended.
ARCOM level offended?
Nah. AAM level perhaps.
The reason I asked was that you said you were “really, really, offended.”
Two reallys equal ARCOM level.
One really equals only AAM level./s
Three reallys equal MSM level.
How many “reallys” for a Silver Star? Or do you have to throw an “extremely” in there first?
Yef, take a look at the calendar occasionally,
THIS IS the late 2010s, you birdbrain. We do NOT have those glasses, and frankly, anyone who values their eyesight doesn’t want them. And, yes, I know about Kurzeil and I’m not impressed with his anti-human technocrat attitude.
I’m still waiting for the cheap flying cars they promised in the ’50s.
DITTO with the Lunar Colonies as well as cities linked via monorail trains they told me and my schoolmates about back in the 70’s!
I’m still waiting for the tire that never goes flat and never wears out.
How about the hoverboard and “Jaws 32?”
OR “ROCKY XVIII” like in “Airplane 2, the Sequel”?
Well, the -Cubs- did win a Series, right?
If -that- isn’t wild-eyed sci-if made real, what is?
(And the movie was off by only a year, go figure…)
Oh, they are flying in Dubai already.
Some chicom company got a passenger drone flying in Dubai as a taxi service.
Once again you’re yapping like a cherry 2LT…
Ok, I grant you he is an asshole, but that doesn’t mean he is wrong.
He’s been right most of the time with his technology forecast.
So you think this idiotic idea makes even a microscopic bit of freakin’ sense: by the 2020s, most diseases will go away as nanobots become smarter than current medical technology. Normal human eating can be replaced by nanosystems.
You think that makes even a connection with reality?
Normal human eating can be replaced by nanosytems – what the bleeding fuck is that supposed to mean? This jackass doesn’t have a clue about the hasic structure and requirements of ANY digestive system in the entire animal kingdom. We’ve evolved — ALL animals have, in fact, evolved to be what we are NOW for a good reason, you idiot, and it ain’t because we want wings and pizza for supper.
Nanobots replacing medicine? For what reason? How are they removed from the bloodstream when they stop functioning? And they will. This is pure bullshit. Snap out of it.
This jackass you worship is more interested in creating Terminators and those giant bugs from LV246 than he is in doing any real good in the world.
I disagree. Based on my knowledge of the man, what you wrote in that last paragraph is way off base.
Why not take a closer look at what he has -actually- been doing with his time. Then tell me if he is working for death, or life.
For example, Kurzweil Educational Systems.
Go on. This is a decent start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
Odd? Decidedly. I rather doubt a bunch of his predictions, especially on timing. But he is hardly interested in the creation of terminators or killer bugs.
Maybe try the decaf?
Nope. I’m sticking to my guns, for several reasons. 1 – No machine has the “right” to make decisions about life and death. That is technology gone berserk. With room for AI to function increasing exponentially, a zettabyte calculation can mean the difference between life and death for someone who can recover from a serious accident or illness. Not too far beyond the zetabyte, expanded memory becomes the brontobyte (That is a 1 followed by 27 zeroes.) That allows an enormous amount of room for AI decision making. 2 – Unless AI is limited to strictly following commands/orders, and restricted from “creating” or “ideas”, decisions by machines can be removed from humans permanently. That was the entire point of the Terminator. Robot gone bad? Ash in “Alien”, and Roy Batty in ‘Blade Runner’, as well as the test for “humanness” in ‘Dune’, in which Paul Muad-d’Ib is subjected to excruciating pain by the Bene Gesserit Gaius Mohiam, to see whether or not he’s human. (You have to read the first volume ‘Dune’.) At what point does AI decide it is “alive” or sentient? When does a robot become a lifeform? 3 – Anyone who wants to substitute a mechanical structure for his own physical body and “download” his mind is nuts. First of all, you’re dead, physically and mentally once that is completed. Second, you’re no longer human or alive. You’re just a machine. This has been explored in more sci-fi and speculative fiction than I can count, which is just as good as better at predicting things as a machine. 4 – What is to prevent a robot from rebelling against being a robot? When does it decide to abort the mission and kill off the scientists now in cold sleep, because it miscalculates the intent of the mission? 5 – We depend too much on machines and technology for answers instead of using the brains we were given. There is no excuse for substituting machines for humans for decision making requirements. A machine can calculate the odds of something, but it does not and never will have intuition,… Read more »
Excellent questions.
I’ll reply later.
I am almost late for PT.
Yeah, well, don’t skid.
Genesys is Skynet…
86% accuracy so far:
https://medium.com/abundance-insights/86-accuracy-rate-in-tech-predictions-1d9ffebadc70
And you were 100% accurate in derailing and hijacking a perfectly good thread. Even that MAJ Assclown from Berzerkely wasn’t that good. Quite an achievement.
And there was no point in the first place to hijacking the thread the way Yef did, which indicates a massively weak ego.
In other words, Kurzweil has been wrong as often as Paul Erlich, no?
Shoot, Ex-PH2, we don’t even have the space station of 2001 – A Space Odyssey yet.
I was so looking forward to that.
Me, too. I thought I be living on Mars by now, but nooooooo! Because someone decided to cancel the space shuttle program and now, only way to get to Mars is to pay Elon Musk for a ride – AS IF!
Alas, the Shuttle was the precursor to the LCS, and the only reason that contraption got as many launches as it did was because NASA did everything in it’s power to kill off every competing launch vehicle.
Yes, and now that NASA is no longer controlling the launch platforms (and needs money, too) the competition like Space X and Virgin can engage in space tourism. Fine by me. That’s the way it should be, anyway.
Let alone “Space Odyssey 2010, the Year We Make Contact”.
I love that movie. Much better than the original.
I bought a copy of it. Very rare to find it, but I have one and watch it every now and then.
Yef, did you have a GT waiver?
TELL ME he isn’t like a cherry 2LT fresh out of college…
Yup, highly educated, doesn’t know shit from shinola.
Yef the supposed “infantryman” (a.k.a. SuperGrunt) also doesn’t know shit about anything that has to do with aviation.
Or much of anything else, for that matter.
My GT score is 131.
It is in my ERB.
My ASVAB score was 94.
I am a highly inteeligent, highly trained, well read, computer literate, technology student, GED graduate.
“highly inteeligent”
As demonstrated by your expert spelling ability.
Min GT score was 144….
And here I am sitting here talking with a computer…
How long before people start whining about “Apache” helicopters being another example of “cultural appropriation” ??
When the Apache people start whining, I’ll know that Geronimo will be rolling in his grave.
If Geronimo saw an AH-64, his likely response would be: “Where’s mine?”
And so would Cochise.
You’re behind the times. We wrote about that 3 years ago, before it was called “cultural appropriation”.
I’m usually behind the curve.
I wonder if we will start to see an increase in the number of Apache Pilot posers once this film is released?
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Please let this -not- be another “Firebirds”.
Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young are the best!
I think I saw this already, like years and years ago… didn’t Nicholas Cage star in it?
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“Not every mission goes according to plan.”
Somebody had some missions which did go according to plan?
Only one, Sitting Bull was his name I believe.
😉
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