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No-snipe (tm) from Coproco Enterprises is a convenient shoulder-mounted windage indicator, consisting of streamers blown in random directions by hat-mounted, solar-powered fans.
Snipers will be unable to compensate for the apparently variable wind conditions, and will simply give up and return to
their mountain-top retreats.
Snipe
http://www.birding....ds/common_snipe.jpg
[wagster, Feb 04 2009]
No-snipe
http://www.campmack...es/River%20Bank.jpg
[wagster, Feb 04 2009]
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The Jackal would get hold of the randomization algorithm, and have a HUD that subtracts the synthetic motion, leaving only the true wind effects. |
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Adopting an unusual gait might also assist in thwarting snipers, as developed by those hard-working men at the ministry. |
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1. I shoot you at night (IR sight, natch), when the solar-powered fans conk out. |
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2. When that fails, I bring in the Acme Shoulder-Launched Fan-Seeking missile. This works by analysing the distinctive vortices created by solar powered fans blowing in different directions from the same hat. Actually, it probably doesn't. Visual pattern-recognition of the funny hat might be a better bet. |
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//I shoot you at night (IR sight//
But the heat of the fan motors would confuse your IR sight. |
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But they're solar powered - so how do they do anything hot at night? |
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From the retained heat when they warmed during the day. |
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So, a fan that's been powered off for, say, an hour, would be hotter than your head? (Sorry, that somehow sounds more personally insulting than it's meant to). |
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You could always run them at night from a sterling engine driven by your head's warmth. |
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You could just get an burlap bag and hold it close to the
ground and yell Heeeeeere snipe, snipe, snipe! Sniiiiiiipe!
Snipe, snipe, snipe! |
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