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The Hunter-Killer program was the first use of drones (sorry, “unmanned combat air vehicles”) for killing, in addition to intelligence gathering.
Their first drone is appropriately and unimaginatively called…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAF_Hunter-Killer
☠️ The Reaper
Drones are the future of air combat, with more pilots being trained to operate them than any other weapons system.
Reapers hunt using sensors and thermographic cameras that can read license plates from two miles away!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper
📷 Thermographic cameras create images by comparing the heat coming from an object’s surface against its surroundings.
Created for military use, we now use them for chill activities like building scans, medical diagnostics, and collision avoidance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermographic_camera
⛑ Medical thermology uses infrared images of human skin to help diagnose and treat medical conditions.
There’s controversy around infrared devices re-marketed for COVID screening, because not every carrier has a fever.
🧖🏽♀️ Infrared saunas differ from traditional saunas in that they heat you directly, rather than by heating the air around you.
In other words, microwaved versus steamed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_sauna
🌈 The first one was called an “incandescent electric light bath” by its inventor John Harvey Kellogg, of Corn Flakes fame.
I feel like the “light bath” branding would land very well with Gen Z — someone bring it back, there’s a million dollar idea in there somewhere!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg
Extra Credit
John Harvey Kellogg Believed Light Could Cure Diabetes
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/12/john-harvey-kellogg-believed-light-could-cure-diabetes/382916/
That was today's Random Walk.
Remember to dream your dreams, THEN LIVE THEM because a life without dreams is black and white, but the universe flows in TECHNICOLOR and SURROUND SOUND!
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