Life's A Drone - Then You Get Hacked

Texas college hacks government drone

This is the most awesome thing ever! A group of students in Austin, TX told the Department of Homeland Security that they could hack a drone, and DHS dared them to do it. So, $1000 worth of equipment, a little bit of ingenuity, and a homemade hacking system later, viola! A hacked drone!


Of course, the media feeds into the cultural fear that has become America. They tell us that this means that if some college students can do it, so can the terrorists. Soon, they'll be taking over the thousands of drones that are set to watch our sky starting in a few years! Those terrorist will be flying them into buildings and not even killing themselves! What are we going to do? The fear is too great!

Come on, people! Wake up! We can't let drones take over our airspace. We need to take back our freedoms, deny them the ability to spy on us. We need to stop the use of drones in America. Call your senator, your mayor, your sheriff's department and demand that drones not be used in your city, county and state. I'm not statist, and I don't condone anything the government does, but these people are meant to serve our needs, even if they do so with violence.

Genesis 5 - Family Lineage?

I had a difficult time reading Genesis 5. To start with, I decided to read the King James Version of the bible. I've been reading from the New International Version, but for some reason, the KJV seems more... bible-ish. I guess.

Genesis 5 is basically a family lineage, from the creation of Adam to the birth of Noah's sons. There's very few mentions about family other than the men listed in this lineage. While I read this chapter, I tried to do the math in my head for every single person mentioned. I even wrote it down, and I still got it wrong. So I refer to the chart to the right. This chart contains past Noah a few generations, as Shem was one of Noah's three sons.

According to this chapter, these people lived for centuries. By today's standards, they all had children at extreme ages. Noah was 500 years old when he had his kids! 500! Unbelievable!

Anyway, here's my critical thinking questions for this chapter:

How could these people have lived for centuries? Were they actually human or gods? How the heck could anyone have had children at such ages? We know people have never lived that long, we know that people have never had children at those ages, so how can we believe this book is divinely inspired when we know it's wrong here?

Where did these ages come from? What calendar did the writers use? Can someone point to other documented sources of calendars in use at those times?

Why was it important to write out a lineage instead of a family tree? Why would some children be pointed out while others aren't pointed out?

What would be the dynamic between father, child, grandfather, great grandfather, etc.? Did they live separately, or together? Did they help raise each others children?

Anyone is welcome to answer or ridicule my questions. Everyone is welcome, Christians, Atheists, Muslims, Shaman, whatever; please have at it!