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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."
As another post said, the world is roughly 20 years behind the DoD. Just look where AIDS [made to thin the black population] has got already! Do you think a virus of that nature just appeared out of nowhere roughly around the time the DoD would have had the means to manufacture it? Doublethink in action.
Anyway, for us pathetic tax-battery-chickens this is a pretty cool little toy. Of course, we'll... ah, brb!
Ph33r m3!!!
That you cannot invest all this money and effort, into destruction, without destroying the world as the result.
"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."
This basically means, like with the atomic bomb, the government is using technology for evil purposes.
Why do we need a 350-400 billion military budget yet only a 20 billion dollar school budget?
Please tell me what would happen, if I gave some monkeys, a button, and told the monkey not to push the little red button which ends the world, wait lets take it a step further, lets say I give this power to thousands, millions of monkeys.
How long until one of the monkeys pushes the button?
For scientific minds reading this, the second law of thermodynamics clearly explains in a very logical way, that unless humans are educated and evolve mentally as a whole, expect things to collapse, with technologies like this here, the atomic bomb, soon nano technology, just wait until it gets in the hands of bin laden, the next hitler, hell i wouldnt even trust these technologies in the hands of george bush or the average american.
So why are we busy creating technology after technology without educating people in how to responsibly use these technologies we create? Are we supposed to be proud of our technology which will be used to spy on millions of people, ruin millions of lives, get people killed etc?
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All technologies start of cool, because technologies are usually created by very intelligent enlightened people.
But why should intelligent enlightened people create technologies which dumbass hawks in government will use irresponsibly, to spy on people, harrass, control, and kill people with?
Oh and lets not forget it will eventually spread to people like bin laden, and the next hitler.
Look, geeks in slashdot may be intelligent enough to handle these technologies, but the average idiot, would destroy the world with it.
Governments invest hundreds of billions in weapons, but next to nothing in education, the US government spends less than japan in educating the masses yet spends 350-400 billion on its military.
Look, with the trillion dollar tax cut, and plans for smaller government, what people seem to forget, even with smaller government, you'll still have a country filled with idiots unless you educate the masses on how to use this technology.
The average person cant even use the internet properly, I'm betting george bush doesnt know how to write a program, or do anything more than the average joe who just checks his mail and surfs the web, but this is the guy whos supposed to decide how this new fly technology will be used?
We will let Bush decide who gets nuked? The world is doomed as long as we have leaders who arent as intelligent as the creators of the technology.
The solution? More education, raise the budget on education, and worldwide, so that hopefully we can have a war on ignorance like we have a war on terrorism. Terrorism is caused by ignorance, Hate is caused by ignorance, and both of these are usually results of poor education, lack of knowledge, low intelligence, etc.
Building more weapons, and spy technology only means, the dumb asses of the world will be able to do more damage.
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