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Spy Fly
opencity writes "CNN (and AP) reports on the 'Spy Fly' project. "Biologists and technologists at the University of California, Berkeley have spent the past four years developing a tiny robot, called the Micromechanical Flying Insect, that they say will one day fly like a fly." Good technical stuff on the Cal Berkeley page. The Pentagon likes the idea for spying and battlefield deployment but their page has no info about weaponization or command / communication technologies."
Imagine swatting a beowulf cluster of those things...
The "bad guys" resort to ... this?
could be a great weapon once they figure out how to attach the big friggin' laser to it's head.
Picture the Berkeley scientists, eyes glued to the monitor, excitedly following the maiden flight...
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Scientist: "Oooh, look at that!"
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Scientist: "Let's land over there."
Speaker: "Whadda..?"
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Speaker: "Damn bugs!"
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Speaker falls silent.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
Or maybe they'll crash a swarm of them into a large building.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
Of course it should be weaponized. A little pincer or something of the kind, a tiny camera, some image recognizion software, and I could use it to hunt down those d****d mosquitoes. I sure could use one of those, following me everywhere!.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
Opens up a market for magnetic flyswatters though.
"If anyone needs me, I'm in the angry dome."
Fritillus Lepidoptera Imitatus.
No, it will run FlyBSD. Or FlyRIX. Maybe even BeeOS, but it was discontinued.
*runs*
Isn't the whole idea to BUILD a bug????
All the girls say hes pretty fly for a spy guy!