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Reading BBC online today I see that “a groundbreaking military satellite system” is being launched by the UK military to help the Navy, RAF and Army to pass data more quickly around the globe - it’s name? Skynet 5A. “Skynet?” I thought to myself… surely not the name of the computer network created by ‘Cyberdyne Systems Corporation’ in the Terminator film series - the one which gets too intelligent and begins to wipe out all of humanity? But yes… somebody at UK Military HQ obviously does have a sense of humour. I can picture it now “General, what shall we call this new military satellite?”, the General spins around in his big leather chair, his eyes glancing past his special edition Terminator DVD tin, his subconscious remembers the name of the fictional network for ’Strategic Air Command-North American Aerospace Defense Command’ and he answers “Skynet has a ring to it”. Those jokers.

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