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Pentagon Seeks Laser-Powered Bat Drones (defenseone.com)
Zorro quotes DefenseOne:
A new contest seeks flight systems inspired by Mother Nature and powered by directed-energy beams. Tired: multi-rotor copters and fixed-wing drones. Wired: flying robots that move like living animals, are crafted of next-generation materials, and draw their power not from batteries but energy beamed from nearby aircraft...
"The biological study of agile organisms such as bats and flying insects has yielded new insights into complex flight kinematics of systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, and the use of multi-functional flight surface materials," the announcement reads. The Air Force believes that more and more naturalistic design -- coupled with more powerful and smaller sensors to form a better picture of the outside world -- should yield "significant improvements in maneuverability, survivability and stealth over traditional quadcopter or fixed wing designs."
The article includes a link to a CalTech video showing footage of an advanced robotic bat.
"The biological study of agile organisms such as bats and flying insects has yielded new insights into complex flight kinematics of systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, and the use of multi-functional flight surface materials," the announcement reads. The Air Force believes that more and more naturalistic design -- coupled with more powerful and smaller sensors to form a better picture of the outside world -- should yield "significant improvements in maneuverability, survivability and stealth over traditional quadcopter or fixed wing designs."
The article includes a link to a CalTech video showing footage of an advanced robotic bat.
I've been using laser power on drones for ages. When someone with a white coat does it then they get praised. When I harness the power of the sun to fry ants I'm looked down upon. The world is a crazy place.
What could go wrong ? Shall we start with rain & smoke ?
Did you know that Jesus does not approve of you spewing hate in his name?
It's true, he told me so at our weekly poker game night.
Don't let him write you any checks on 'Bank of Heaven'.
I think we can do one better: bat drones powered by sharks with freakin laser beams attached to their heads.
I know Jesus. He's one of my homies. Might not be him though, different last name, but he did create a lot of people with a lot of different women.
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it won't make you blind!
That is what christian parents say to every kid who thinks turning off the lights while masturbating will keep them safe.
Where do they get those wonderful toys?
Laser Powered Bat Drones.
How can you get more nerdy than that?
I'm not religious but I'd agree with Churchill that it is only because 'Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science' that Western Europe didn't go the way of Constantinople.
And these drones are part of those 'strong arms of science'.
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."
* Winston Churchill, The River War
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... meaning to "batshit crazy."
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
What the fuck? And why the fuck do so many submissions have improper use of "..."? For fuck sakes.
I had Jesus fixed. They spray if you don't.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I, for one, would like to welcome our new laser powered bat drone overlords ..
or don't we do that anymore?
All I see in the video is a very complex contraption that kind of flaps its wings and falls slowly, but I can't really confirm that it could gain altitude on its own. What a joke.
If the Lord truly did not approve of this site, he would have smitten it long ago.
Beg for forgiveness heretic, before it is too late! For you speak only wretched lies in the name of the almighty!
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I have no idea who this Jesus character you talk of is but I can tell you now that when the nerds that visit this website face Crom, they'd better know the riddle of steel or he'll laugh at them and cast them out of Valhalla.
If it looks like an animal won't it be more likely to be attacked by predators?
Like this? (raw image)
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
I have no idea who this Jesus character you talk of is but I can tell you now that when the nerds that visit this website face Crom, they'd better know the riddle of steel or he'll laugh at them and cast them out of Valhalla.
Crom Cruach is Celtic, not Nordic.
Number 2 you disappoint me. I gave you one tiny job. Laser powered bat drones.
Is that too much to ask? Did your Mommy call you home? Throw me a frikken' bone here!