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."

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People often believe its a nightmare, but

[HanzoSan]

I for once agree with you heretic, I dont think humanity is prepared for this technology at all. With our current leaders, our USA would be as fucked up as the way the taliban was.

Oh and even if USA isnt turned into a taliban like stay, China, and the rest of the world will have access to these technologies and some of them will try to enslave its citizens with it.

Whoever is developing this technology and hopefully reads our posts should think about what they are bringing forth into the world. I've thought about this technology, it sounds good and appeals to all geeks in terms of its use, but this kinda technology should be used for us to explore space or an alien planet, not used to be used on us.

Does humanity hate itself? We invest more money and effort trying to create weapons to destroy ourselves than we do educating ourselves!!

We claim to fight to protect freedom then develop technologies which by design remove it?

I understand your point howwever

[HanzoSan]

The United States knew That Nazi Germany had an Atomic Bomb program, but didn't know how far along it was. It was also known that the first nation to develop the bomb would win the war, even if they were on the verge of defeat. Considering Hitler's goals, it would have been pretty fucking stupid to take a chance that Hitler would get the Bomb first.

They did not need to build as many bombs as they did, with the amount of power they had. The bomb being built was mainly a symbol of power at first, but tell me why we kept making these bombs, and making them more powerful all the way through the 80s?

You see, what you are saying is, the USA in self defense, had no choice but to develop the atomic bomb, and this makes sense. But it doesnt make sense why we developed, I dont know how many thousands of these nuclear bombs, and of unbelieveable power, what was the point? Who needs thousands of nuclear bombs? Its enough to destroy the whole world.

The fact that we didnt destroy the world was pure luck. You see, the technology was a bad technology, you can argue the fact that we developed it in self defense at first in response to others, however we did not need to have the cold war, that was bullshit. Where do I put the blame? Not just on the USA, but on all of the ignorant (yes ignorant) leaders of all of these countries, who were either filled with hate (hitler) or just couldnt get along with the USA (Japan and Russia).

You can try to claim the USA was the victim, and that the ignorant leaders in these other countries were responsible for all of this, but it was the USA who used the bomb first, it was the USA who pushed the cold war competition to see who could build the most bombs.

Back then, there was no UN, so it was impossible to stop rogue dictators, like hitler. Today we dont need to develop such massive weapons to stop one guy, you see if bin laden were around back then he could have been as dangerous as hitler or even more so, its not the technology I'm blaming, I'm blaming the people who happen to control it. The people who control it arent the people who make it, and if all of the intelligent genius scientists decide not to make any more weapons, that would be it.

If scientists decide not to make any more spy technologies, none would be made. It cant happen without einstiens and teslas of the world, hitler wasnt smart enough to develop a nuclear bomb, and neither were his soilders, and this is what we must remember.

Why build technologies which we know for a fact, that our leaders cannot handle?