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Re: It's Christmas eve in Australia
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Posted by IHank on December 23, 1999 at 19:27:23 from (167.142.18.50):
In Reply to: It's Christmas eve in Australia posted by Greg Teague on December 23, 1999 at 13:59:32:
Greg- From Iowa, in the US Midwest, Holiday greetings back to you and yours! Wishing you all the best in the new years to come. End the old year with a laugh and start the new one with a grin... Is this joke really true? Let us know, please. CAUTION-- Another Depends Moment ahead!) Don't mess with Kanga and/or Roo! This is supposedly a true story from a recent Defence Science Lectures Series, as related by the head of the Australian DSTO's Land Operations/Simulation Division. They've been working on some really nifty virtual reality simulators, the case in point being to incorporate Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters into exercises (from the data fusion point of view). Most of the people they employ on this sort of thing are ex- (or future) computer game programmers. Anyway, as part of the reality parameters, they include things like trees and animals. For the Australian simulation they naturally included kangaroos. In particular, they had to model kangaroo movements and reactions to helicopters (since hordes of disturbed kangaroos might well give away a helicopter's position). Being good programmers, they just stole some code (which was originally used
to model infantry detachments reactions under the same stimuli), then changed
the mapped icon, the speed parameters, etc. The first time they've gone to demonstrate this to some visiting Americans, the hotshot pilots have decided to get "down and dirty" with the virtual kangaroos. So, they buzz 'em, watch 'em scatter, and have a big laugh. The visiting Americans nod appreciatively... then go berzerk as the kangaroos respond with a Stinger launch at the hapless helicopter. Yeah, a king sized Ooooooooooh Sssssssshit! Fixed wing, rotary wing, no matter- It'll be "no wings" an jest-a few moments... Programmers looked rather embarrassed at forgetting to remove the part of the 'borrowed' coding with the grunts normal response to provocations... and Americans leave muttering comments about not wanting to mess with the Aussie wildlife... As an addendum, the dumb assed simulator pilots from that point onwards avoided kangaroos like the plague, just like they were supposed to do in the first place! (Thanks to my ornery niece, "Cessna Cindy", at LZ Caracole for this joke. IHank)
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