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Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied
SRA8 sends in a Washington Post piece about work at various academic, government, and military labs on insect-sized flying spies. A number of people reported what appeared to be flying mechanical insects, larger than dragonflies, over an antiwar rally in Washington DC last month. The reporter got mostly no-comments from the agencies he called trying to pin down what it was they saw. Only the FBI said through a spokesman: "We don't have anything like that." The article describes work on insect cyborgs as well as purely mechanical flying spies, but quotes vice admiral Joe Dyer, former commander of the Naval Air Systems Command now at iRobot in Burlington, Mass., as follows: "I'll be seriously dead before that program deploys." The article also mentions an International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, held in Switzerland in August, at which Japanese researchers demonstrated radio-controlled fliers with four-inch wingspans that resemble hawk moths.
Robotic *and* insect overlords
should'nt it be In Soviet Russia Spies Govern you ?
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It's not a bug, it's a feature!
In unrelated news, Joe Dyer has been found dead in an alley. Here's tom with the weather.
Whether or not there is some sort of god, I'm not supposed to say/god is a word and the argument ends there-Smog
...and a mechanical spy-bird cra*ped on my tinfoil hat.
Evil is the money of root.
..then I've got to go to more antiwar rallies. I can't be the only fool who would love to catch one of these babies and take it home to play with... anyone selling butterfly nets with Faraday cages installed?
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I wonder at the mindset of the people complaining.
"Hey, let's all get together in some big mob in a public area with big signs and shout collective messages! Yeah! Let's do it!"
20 seconds later...
"Man, I think we're being spied on." "Really?" "Yeah, check out those low-flying insects... probably robots or something." "QMGZ, you're right! The government is watching us! Our cleverly concealed group of hundreds of protestors has been outed to the man!"
Anyway, I thought we'd already pinned squirrels as the chief liaisons of CIA spy programs. Doesn't a jump straight from squirrel to fly violate Moore's law?
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
Ok, so, next time you have a 'rally' that might attract this kind of attention, make sure to hang up a bunch of Shell No-Pest Strips all over the place.
I"m sure you'll catch some of the culprits that way.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Oh, that's easy. I don't think they've sent robot dragonflies to the Middle East because they sent cyborg squirrels instead.
The enemies of Democracy are
You failed to make your observation in a free speach zone. Your failure to comply will be noted in your "freedom file".
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
The Insecticons later ate him to prove their existence. Never give robots a problem that can only be solved via murder.
I said nothing about resolution giving proof. My point was that if there was something there of interest, someone would have at least attempted to photograph it and would have something to show for it -- very likely a crappy photo, yes, but at least something to show.
How many in focus "UFO" photos have you seen? Having a photo that's blurry just sweetens the deal for the tin foil hat crowd. Then they can tell you all the things "you would have seen it in detail just like I'm describing if you were there, you just can't make it out in the picture. Damn cheap camera!" It gives them something semi-tangible, yet open to interpretation.
Sweet informative mod.
While I completely agree with you on this, I must point out the irony that you're arguing about whether or not John Lennon was a drug addict with someone whose UID is Chineseeyes. I'm not judging this person (I've been 'chinese eyed' myself a time or two in my younger days...yes I did inhale)it just seems like you might be wasting your breath.
The real problem with photographing the robot dragonflies is avoiding the little hellfire missiles they can shoot at nosy photographers.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? --Abraham Lincoln
Well, it is a grave issue.