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Bionic Bugs To Fight Terrorists

dptalia writes "Israel is looking to create a small robot, no larger than a hornet to follow, film, and kill terrorists. It's just one of a series of weapons the country is considering as an alternative to conventional technologies. Other ideas floating around include gloves that would give their user 'bionic strength', and ultra-miniaturized sensors to detect explosives on suicide bombers." From the article: "The research integrates nanotechnology into Israel's security department and will find creative solutions to problems the army has been unable to address, Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told Yedioth Ahronoth. 'The war in Lebanon proved that we need smaller weaponry. It's illogical to send a plane worth $100 million against a suicidal terrorist. So we are building futuristic weapons,' Peres said."

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  1. The problem is Israel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    OR, we could always just give the land back to Palestine that Britain and the US stole in 1948. Get rid of the fake nation called Israel and you will get rid of the terrorists. Israel has and always will be the problem so long as it continues to exist.

    Perhaps you'd rather continue support of genocide with your American tax dollars? In that case, go ahead, invent your Ricin-laced nano-hornets (paid for with US dollars) and sting away!!

  2. Re:Code name for the killer bug: by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    If it's designed by a pair of Israeli scientists they can call it a JewJewBee.

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  3. Re:Nasty racists.... by drinkypoo · · Score: -1, Troll
    If israel will stop its racist persecution of the Palestinans, and return all land stolen since 1940, then many of the problems in the Middle East would vanish.

    If America will stop its racist persecution of persons descended from Siberians who came over the land bridge, and give back the land we stole, then the South Americans and so-called "Native Americans" can live in peace and harmony and hug bunnies.

    Of course, the northern part of the South American continent used to basically be an unmitigated hell of human sacrifice that valued individual human life less than China (or the US, for that matter) does today.

    If we were going to give back all the seized land in the world, first the nations of Australia and the USA would have to cease to exist. (The latter would probably be a good thing but I don't see it happening.)

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  4. Re:OK ... by drinkypoo · · Score: 1, Troll
    Am I the only one who finds it laughable that nowadays practially every new piece of military tech these days is about fighting 'terrorists'?

    New boss, same as the old boss. Before terrorists it was drugs. Before drugs it was communism. Before communism it was blacks and mexicans. Back in england it was papists or protestants depending on who was on the throne at the time, and it was also the spanish, the dutch, and the french at different times. The more things change, yada yada.

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"