On 5/11/07, Martin Spott wrote:
As a little add-on we could ask ourselves if associating a flute with
"bang, bang" is really something that relies on our genes ....
I heavily doubt. The simple fact that already these small kids are so
much influenced by depiction of war/crime, that they consider taking
the flute for a rifle (even resp. especially if it's just a game) as
common practice, should scare us - and certainly this doesn't justify
turning serious flight simulation into a shoot-em game !
For what it's worth, the R/C modeling community apparently has this same
basic problem ...
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXJDU1&P=ML
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh5ekEu9G3o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3XHOqgd8hY
For some reason, right now I can't find the one where the guy accidentally
shoots the camera man on his 4th and last rocket fired from his R/C
helicopter ... that one was great ...
Oh, and I'm surprised that no one has brought up the notion of building more
spectacular crashes. Search youtube for R/C jet crashes and you'll find
some spectacular ones. The R/C community is way ahead of us on that one.
Also you might want to search youtube for "bill hempel". Or you might not
like youtube and not want to search at all. :-)
Curt.
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