DARPA Fractionated Spacecraft Program Starts

An anonymous reader writes "Start buying Cold War nuclear shelters and piling up the canned food, because Boeing Advanced Systems has started System F6: 'DARPA's Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange space technology program.' In other words: multiple, networked specialized spacecraft swarms that are intelligent enough to perform a single coordinated task together, like analyzing the crops or deciding to destroy humanity, Skynet-style. Actually, it could completely change satellites for the better, according to some experts."

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Worst. Article. Ever.

[Dynedain]

Holy shit, do the editors even read the articles anymore?

The submission is just a blatant ripoff of the gizmodo article it links to, which in turn is incredibly vague and sensationalist without any real content whatsoever.

If /. isn't playing the digg game, then what the hell are the editors actually doing with their time?

Basically a dupe

[Protonk]

this is, for all intents and purposes, the same article as this