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Tiny, Morphing, Electricity-Stealing Spy Planes Developed
tkohler writes "The Air Force Research Lab is developing an Electric Motor-powered Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) that can 'harvest' energy when needed by attaching itself to a power line. It can also temporarily change its shape to look more like innocuous piece of trash hanging from the cable. For domestic spying, maybe it will morph into a pair of sneakers?"
into the shape of a tin foil hat, and you have a paranoid schizophrenic's deepest nightmare
and if it does morph into sneakers, does that mean we need tin foil socks too?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Nice to see the govt has recruited the help of the Decepticons.
Tiny Morphing Electricity-Stealing Spy Planes flown by Tiny Mighty Morphing Power Rangers on secret missions to defeat Tiny Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
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In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
...AFRL says the spy plane will need to collapse its wings and hang limply on the cable like a piece of wind-blown detritus
Hey, I didn't know I was doing top secret research. Most of my model planes end up looking just like that!
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At the moment, this high tech surveillance equipment is cunningly disguised as a barrel full of pork.
If you haven't made a developer cry, you've wasted a day.
barefoot drug dealers no less
Low power. The solar cells would need to spend a lot of time recharging that battery.
Where the line power will quick charge it so it can get back to work doing whatever it does over that suspicious looking nude beach.
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It's not made yet. I doubt even a prototype has been made yet.
Well, the prototype for the "stealing" part has already been developed. It's called Congress.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
From what I've heard around the county I live in, shoes on the powerlines indicates that there are drug dealers on whatever street they are hanging over.
Actually, it's the drug users that throw the shoes up there. Drug pushers are for some reason (a mystery to medical science) compulsively driven to powerlines with shoes hanging from them. Obviously this is seen as a big problem for the drug dealing community, which is trying to enter the 21st century, leveraging such fast-paced technologies as 'two-way pagers' and 'cellular telephones'. They find themselves involuntarily skulking around power lines in every sort of weather, knowing full well they could be successful drug deals in the back of the local chuck-e-cheese, but find themselves incapable of breaking the spell of such a powerful lure.
Or maybe it's some sort of urban legend or something, and it's just, like, kids with nothing better to do throwing up some shoes. Dunno.
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Hopefully it doesn't turn into a pair of shrinking boxer shorts!
That's OK I guess... but their bomb that turns you gay is just fabulous!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
No, that's your "sex" making you go blind.
I'm trying to come up with a reasonable identity for the cosine of experience.
Ah, but you missed something important; the fraternity was named Phi Alpha Gamma.