Military Airship Caught on Turtlcam

Our quarantined ship was anchored off the coast of Maine when the unusual airship shown in this video took station directly above us. Shortly after its arrival our communication channels with the outside world were severed and, for a week, we were essentially isolated, with food and fuel supplies diminishing and no idea if we'd be permitted to enter the country.

This video was recorded on October 7, 2019 by a fellow passenger using his son's Turtlcam toy videocamera.

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There are several interesting things to note in this short clip. The first is that while the airship appears to be either robotic or tele-operated, of greater interest is that it has no visible propulsion system. Unfortunately, the toy camera's microphone was inoperative, but had it been functional it would have recorded nothing but the voices of our ship's passengers. The airship was completely silent.

Second, the airship seems to employ a form of optical stealth technology. Up until now the military has denied having anything more than experiments in a lab. While public sightings have been reported, I'm unaware of any definitive video evidence which documents a deployed system. This may be the first.

Furthermore, it now appears this lack of evidence may have an explanation. Of the dozen or so people filming the airship, this was the only device sufficiently unaffected by an apparent micro-burst of electromagnetic energy to be able to record the optical stealth effect as it was being deployed. All other camcorders effectively shut off or rebooted just prior to the airship becoming optically invisible.

Third, for those somehow unaware, the Turtlcam itself is noteworthy as one of the original "Frankenstein products" which emerged from Eastern Europe a few years ago. In particular, the Turtlcam is notorious for being built around a misplaced shipment of military-custom IC chips.

Amusingly enough, thinking they only had a military-grade object recognition system, Happybutt Enterprises Inc hastily assembled, marketed and sold the Turtlcam as an English language learning tool for youngsters. Coupled to online image search engines, the device so impressed consumers that the entire supply was sold out in a matter of weeks. However, once government officials belatedly traced the missing shipment to Happybutt and word spread of the sophisticated fire control code hardwired into the toy's electronic brain, the device became a black market sensation and is directly responsible for General Hadd's launch of the hacker auction house, Black Source RFP.

One little known fact especially relevant to this video is that the toy was supposedly coated in surplus EMSEC protective paint, which is what appears to have partially protected the non-military grade components from the airship's EM micro-burst.

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[tryphonkorm]

good try.I like the airship's design

[reBangDesign]

Gracias. This is a first iteration of the design quickly thrown together for this project. I hope to revisit this as well as design a Turtlcam.

[frankensteinmoneymac]

@reBangDesign You have a knack for telling ALMOST believable stories! LOL! Tone it down just a bit....Change it from a Turtle Cam to some real-kids camera, and come up with another explanation thats a bit more believable than the misplaced military chip.....AND you might have a geniune successful hoax on your hands! Seriously Great story though...You ALMOST got me to google "turtle cam"......ALMOST! :)

[reBangDesign]

@frankensteinmoneymac - This wasn't intended to be a hoax. It was part of the Superstruct project, an online future forecasting game set in the year 2019. If you Google "turtlcam", the first hit should be a link to a Futurismic entry discussing it in depth, but all in the context of the near future. The entire story (in log entries) can be found on Twitter (user: reBang2019).

[frankensteinmoneymac]

@reBangDesign Hmmm I saw nothing about the game in the info section...and your title simply says "Military Airship Caught on Turtlcam"....so come on, ya were at least KINDA hoping someone would think it was real!!! LOL!

Anyway...cool Idea though for a game! was the game ever released, or are the plans for a release?

[reBangDesign]

@frankensteinmoneymac - KInda figured "This video was recorded on October 7, 2019" would suggest this was a fictional video, but glad you enjoyed it as if it were real.

The game wasn't a regular videogame. It was an online game where anyone could join in; just sign up and begin posting entries for what your life might be like in 2019. That's what I was doing here: sharing news about my taking a ship from Europe to the U.S.

Game officially ended, but may still be active. Search "Superstruct".

[reBangDesign]

@frankensteinmoneymac - If you go to Twitter account "reBang2019" and surf to that account's Tumblr homepage, it presents the full trip including images (in reverse order).

Also, I wrote a few Superstruct-centric entries for my Futurismic column. Google "when 3D spam got old" to see the first entry.

Lastly, there's a related game going on now called Urgent Evoke. I didn't have time to participate, but it's very similar; same person running it. There will be more.

[521pinpin]

more like a blimp

[henrifirstman]

Well just fake.

My bad.

[henrifirstman]

Fake and gay

[MetaOutCastHD]

owww i thought it would be a turtle with a camera but no :(

[frankensteinmoneymac]

@reBangDesign Ha! I admit I missed the "recorded on October 7 2019"! touche'!!

I will check what you mention about the twitter account too...thanks!