The future is drones not F35s legacy fighter jets, not fighter jet pilots

ORLANDO, Fla., — Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk predicted Friday that the future of war would be carried out by autonomous drones and not by legacy aircraft.

“The fighter jet era has passed,” Musk said during a fireside chat with U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. John Thompson at the Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. “Drone warfare is where the future will be. It’s not that I want the future to be – it’s just, this is what the future will be,” he added.

Musk also said that Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jet, which is the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons system, should have a competitor.

“The Joint Strike Fighter, there should be a competitor ... that’s a controversial subject but I don’t think it’s good to have one provider,” Musk said. He later elaborated on Twitter that the F-35 competitor should be a drone.

“The competitor should be a drone fighter plane that’s remote-controlled by a human, but with its maneuvers augmented by autonomy. The F-35 would have no chance against it,” he wrote.... CNBC


How many billions have Singapore just signed away for a dozen F35s? Read the above and ask if this is a sensible thing to do. Also ask how many drones can be bought with the billions that have gone to the few legacy fighter jets F35s? Just heard that they would start with 4 toys and option to buy 8 more. Let' hope they would save the money for better uses by not exercising the option. Paying protection money for 4 toys should be more than enough.

The F35s may be good for show for a few more years, but by the time they are delivered, they could be obsolete, money down the drain. As for future jet fighter pilots, oops, I mean drone fighter pilots, they would be looking very nerdy, with glasses and not very athletic except for their fingers and their brains. No need perfect eyesight, no need strong muscular body to withstand physical and mental stress, high pressure etc etc. And Singapore has plenty of them, all ready to take up such glorious warring occupation. Future war heroes are made of these...nerdy looking drone fighter pilots.

The Saudis are very happy flying Chinese drones for attack missions. So were the Turks, but not sure where they bought their drones. The Americans too are using drones instead of jet fighters to protect the lives of their pilots from being shot down.

What do you think?

PS.  Musk also said this,
“A thing that will feel pretty strange is that the Chinese economy is probably going to be at least twice as big as the United States’ economy, maybe three times,” Musk said.
“The foundation of war is economics,” Musk said. “If you have half the resources of the counterparty then you better be real innovative, if you’re not innovative, you’re going to lose.”

Covid 19 - It would not hit the USA

When the coronavirus first Wuhan, China, there was this air of arrogance in the West, particularly the USA. It would not happen to us, it is a China problem. And so they went about attacking China and smearing China in every possible way they could. And as the problem grows daily, the West started to turn racists and there were many racist attacks against anyone looking Chinese in western countries, including the US of course. And one white asshole wrote and reported in another racist main media, the Wall Street Journal with the heading China is the New Sick Man of Asia, thinking it was very fun, and defended by the equally racist American govt as freedom of speech.

So it would not happen to the West, not to the USA. All the Swine Fever, Bird Flu. SARS and now Covid19 would only happen to China, not any other slum and filthy third world countries and definitely not Europe and the USA. The picture is changing and turning ugly with South Korea and Italy and Iran as the new centres of Covid19 epidemic. And the US is still smarting that they have very few cases, nothing to worry about. The latest, a Californian has been infected but with no travel record to China or other worse hit countries. Two in Washington state also infected and also had no contacts with foreigners or been to affected places. These cases look like indigenous virus found in the USA. Perhaps one of the reasons why so few cases were found in the US is because they have only conducted screening on about 400 individuals as at 25 Feb 20. The rest of the Americans were not tested.

It would not hit the USA. One month after the news of Wuhan epidemic, most Asian stock markets started to fall sharply, but not the European stock markets or New York.  They are immuned from this Wuhan virus, nothing to worry about, for reasons they know best. This virus only attacks Chinese perhaps or just Asians.

Nevermind the Covid19 virus. On 24 Feb, finally the impact of Covid19 hit the USA when Dow Industrial index fell more than 1,000 points. It did not stop there and the worse was on 27 Feb when it was -1190 points, the biggest one day fall in the history of American stock market.  Last week alone US 3.5 trillion dollars were wiped out from the American stock market alone. All the life long savings, pension funds, whatever funds, took a big hit. No, the Covid19 virus would not hit the Americans, it just did a nuclear thing, to wipe out the stock market. No one American is spared from this onslaught. The one who laughs last laughs loudest.

Thank God it is finally happening. And the story is just being written. The ink has not dried yet and many more chapters to come before the end.

Malaysia, the king and the de facto king

(Bloomberg) -- Malaysian lawmakers from across the political spectrum blasted Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for calling on parliament to vote on a new leader, saying the move disrespected the country’s monarch.

Parliament won’t convene the special meeting on March 2 as the letter sent by the premier breached procedure, house speaker Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof said in a statement. The meeting should only be called after a decree from the king, he said. Mahathir said Thursday the king had failed to find a candidate with a clear majority in the 222-member parliament, and an election would be called if lawmakers couldn’t decide on a leader in the special meeting. The king had appointed Mahathir as interim prime minister following his surprise resignation this week....

The backlash raises questions about whether Mahathir, 94, miscalculated in abandoning a coalition that pulled off a shock election win in 2018, taking down a government that ruled consecutively for six decades....  Yahoo News

Mahathir is fighting his last battle at the age of 94. The last time when he announced his shock resignation as PM while in UMNO, the UMNO top leaders spared no time to accept his resignation immediately to his horror. They could not wait to remove him as the PM and put another aspiring and ambitious UMNO leader in his place. This time round the play was the same. Mahathir thought he was the de facto king and is still calling the shot, the indispensable leader Malaysia could not do without. Then came the news that PKR and DAP again changed their position, from supporting Anwar to supporting Mahathir and Mahathir said he had enough support to be the PM.

Then the Palace made the announcement that Muhyiddin would be sworn in as the PM, meaning Bersatu had backed out from supporting Mahathir.

When the chips are down, everyone is abandoning him. Anwar put himself up as the candidate for PM but changed in the last minute when he could not muster enough numbers to be the PM. His former foe, UMNO would have nothing to do with him, and his own party Bersatu has put up Muhyiddin as their PM candidate. The errant PKR break away 11 MPs also turned against him.

And worse, for announcing that the PM would be chosen at the next Parliamentary sitting in 2 Mar, he seemed to have forgotten who is the King of Malaysia and offended the royalties and the loyal Malaysians that loved their King. They are accusing him of showing disrespect to the King and promptly the Palace announced that there would be no Parliamentary sitting to elect the PM, a slap on Mahathir's face.

Just a few days ago, after resigning and reappointed as the interim PM, Mahathir seemed to be the one to be the PM again and calling for the formation of a unity govt. This is not going to be. Muhyiddin won. Looks like his last gambit has gone with the wind. Mahathir's final battle with the royalties ended with the royalties as the winner.

At 94, it is unlikely that Mahathir is going to be given another chance to stage a comeback.

North Korean suffering under the Evil Empire

"The coronavirus issue was discussed and the committee immediately had given permission to export the equipment" used to fight the illness, said Christoph Heusgen, who heads the United Nations body that applies the sanctions imposed on Pyongyang in an effort to force it to give up its ballistic and nuclear programs.

Ill-equipped North Korea has weak medical infrastructure and has cut itself off from the outside world, closing its borders as analysts say prevention is its only option.

"The problem is that right now the North Koreans closed the borders," Heusgen said after a closed-door Council meeting about the reclusive state.

The members of the Security Council called on North Korea "to allow this equipment in. So the population can be protected," he said, without elaborating on the type of equipment.  AFP news posted in Yahoo News

During the Korean War in 1950/2 the evil Americans practically destroyed the whole infrastructure of North Korea.  Everything man made were bombed to oblivion. Nothing more than 3 foot tall were found standing. That was how heavy and destructive the American bombings were in North Korea. But that was not all, all infrastructure, dams, rice fields etc etc were also flattened. The land were sprayed with chemicals to make them barren, could not be cultivated or grow anything on it.

That was the North Korea the evil Americans left behind. And that was not all. They misled the UN to impose sanction on this country, not allowing them to trade with any country in the world, thus adding to their economic woes, poverty and suffering of the Korean people, all the works of the evil Americans and their allies and the rest of the world that were too weak to go against the Evil Empire's dictate.

So, did the North Koreans closed their own borders as the evil white men would be spouting? who closed the borders on the North Koreans? Why were the North Koreans so poor? Their own doing, mismanagement or the works of the evil white men?

How valid were the comments by this Christoph Heusgen, another unthinking white that did not know the history of North Korea and uttering nonsense just like some of the bananas here? The North Koreans would love to trade with the rest of the world if not of the bullying and unjust sanctions imposed on them by a UN that was misled by the evil Americans. The fate of the North Koreans would befall Iran, Venezuela, Colombia and many African and South American countries under the perversed economic sanctions imposed by the evil Americans. Myanmar too would end up in the same state and the evil white men would say these countries closed their doors to the world, not because the evil Americans closed it on them.

Any idiots still uttering that the North Koreans closed their doors to the world? The door was slammed in their face by the evil Americans, locked down and isolated from the rest of the world.

Heng ah, I am not a sia suay or disgraceful

I can claim this honour because I have not bought a single mask since the outbreak of Covid19. The only 4 masks I have were given free by courtesy of our very caring govt. Oh, I have not used any of them yet. I am still using an old one from a pack I bought many months ago for use in the train to reduce the smelly BOs or when someone is having a running nose and sitting beside me. And I have been reusing this mask for more than a month, just a bit of dusting it after getting off the train. If I were to discard after every train ride, I would be running out of mask in no time and would have to join the long queues or become another sia suay or disgraceful. OK, ok, I did not use the mask in highly contaminated places, and did not it use everyday, just when I need to.

I dunno how many of you have come under the sia suay/disgraceful class, but if you are, this is food for thought. There are many ways of looking at it, from the point of being kiasu, so next time if you do not want to be called a sia suay/disgraceful, do the right thing, the politically correct thing. Another politically correct thing to do is not to wear mask if you are not feeling unwell. But I can't help it because most of the time though I am not feeling unwell I still have to put on mask in the train for obvious reasons I mentioned above. But whatever you do, don't buy plentiful of toilet paper or instant noodles, and don't buy too many masks. Just buy what you need. If you need to wear everyday and throw away after use, then I think you must buy and buy more masks, and have to live with the sia suay/disgraceful tag.

For those who already got this sia suay/disgraceful tag on them, do not be disheartened. Just stop buying or rushing out to buy up the whole NTUC Fairprice next time if something like this happens. You have many more chances not to fall back into this category unless you have kiasu and kiasi virus in your blood.

I think I am a minority that can say heng ah, I am not sia suay or disgraceful. Wondering who would those sia suay/disgraceful vote in the next GE?

PS. This Covid19 is not in the air, not spreading freely at this moment in the island. The danger zone is when you are near those that are infected. And if you suay suay stands near to one, talk to one, then the chances of getting hit is much higher, and the simple mask may not really do the job in such cases as have been proven by the hospital workers being infected. The mask gives a false sense of security, but better than none in dangererous zones.

Covid-19 - Did novelists predict Wuhan coronavirus in 1981 and 2008?

Two novels have gone viral after people noticed the eerie similarity between the viruses mentioned in them and the very real Covid-19 virus which has spread to multiple countries today.The first book, titled The Eyes of Darkness, was by thriller writer Dean Koontz. According to a recent report by Must Share News.com, the 1981 book follows the story of a woman  named Christina whose son supposedly died while camping. After she gets a letter saying that her son is still alive, she goes in search of — and finds him. The intriguing thing is that  her son is being held in a military facility after having been infected by a virus manufactured as a biological weapon by the Chinese military based in Wuhan. In the novel, the virus is called “Wuhan-400”....

 The second book, titled End of Days: Predictions And Prophecies About The End Of The World, was written by Sylvia Browne and published in 2008 — more than 30 years after The Eyes of Darkness and 12 years before Covid-19 struck. Browne, who claimed to be a psychic, foresaw that “in around 2020, a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tube and resisting all known treatments”. She predicted that the outbreak would not last long but that it would return later on. “Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely.”

The above is posted in www.theindependent.sg.  What to make out of the two novels and their similarities with the Wuhan Epidemic? Were the authors prescient to this event, have powers of foresight to see or predict the future? The second author Sylvia Browne claimed to have psychic power. The coincidence cannot be so simple as coincidence. In life, many coincidences are preplanned, premeditated and not coincidences as some may think.

Another possibility is that some organisations could have been planning some wargames using this scenario like Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation planning and simulating a coronavirus attack that led to 65m infections and millions dead. Such exercise premises are often planned and tested many years in advanced and could be picked up or privy to the authors who would then write books about them. There are of course authors with great imaginative powers to write stories like Harry Potters and Lord of the Rings etc etc.

It looks like a virus attack in Wuhan has been played out many times by some groups of people and whether this turns into an inspiration for some to mount such an attack, a copycat act or just playing out the real thing after preparing it for years and decades before.

Those who believe in conspiracies, who believe in dirty wars and undeclared wars would not find such information new or bizarre but common knowledge.

Covid19 - temperature rising in public transportation

Taking temperature of staff entering building is now a must in many offices and buildings to act as an early detection and prevention to the spread of Covid19.  Staff with a higher than normal temperature are suspects and it is best to separate them from the rest of the staff as a an added precaution. Though a bit inconvenient, this is necessary given the seriousness of the Covid19 and how easily it could spread to people around the affected person.

I would believe that all govt agencies and ministries would also be conducting this temperature check on their staff. What I think is a missing link in this preventive and precautionary measure is to take the temperature of bus and train commuters.  These are the first entry points of people before they were bungled together in packed buses and trains, and if they are already infected, it would be too late to do anything subsequently.

Would it not be necessary and essential for the public transport operators to do this part of the exercise? They have many guides in the station helping passengers to get in and out of trains, a job that in many ways is not really necessary or important than to conduct temperature checks on commuters at this point in time. Or is it too troublesome and would involve too many manpower that it is better to miss this part of the exercise?

What do you think? Commuters in public transport never mind if they are sick, never mind if their temperature rising? Or since it is so burdensome, never mind lah? If there is a case and is spreading in the train or buses, ok or not?