foxnews.com— The military and spy world no doubt would love tiny, live camera-wielding versions of Predator drones that could fly undetected into places where no human could ever go to snoop on the enemy.
Jul 17, 2009View in Crawl 4
This kind of worries me, not the spy bugs themselfs but the fact that they are happily publicising it. If secret remote control insect spy cameras is what they are willing to tell everyone they are making it makes me wounder what technology they are hiding...It's not just his, theres a lot of really cool technologies that DARPA keep announcing. Makes me wounder what the secret projects are.
Don't worry, this isn't going to work so well. Moths are erratic in nominal flight, that is probably an adaptation to avoid bats, birds and other predators. A moth under straight and level human control will make easy meat for some hungry bat!Of course.... one could employ some nifty counter measures. Figure out how many times a bat pings the target, and a what freq, then rig a little device to echo that same pulse two or three times is rapid succession at the same freq. Bat-Chaffe! The bat will see a really skewed picture of the target and probably overshoot.The problem of course is still energy. To collect any useful intel is going to need a lot of power. To employ counter-measures will require power. To control flight will require power. To receive signals from the controller will require power.I JUST HAD A THOUGHT?!?!??!?!?I wonder if that is why they are ALWAYS smashing into light bulbs?!!?!??! They're already wired.... utoh....
I saw the tree chopper and totally envisioned it as a body disposal system right away. What better way to clean up all your indiscriminate carpet bombings than with a automatic human disposer.
whywaitJul 18, 2009
of all the apocalyptic scenarios, i think cybug apocalypse would have to be the lamest.
culytJul 18, 2009
This kind of worries me, not the spy bugs themselfs but the fact that they are happily publicising it. If secret remote control insect spy cameras is what they are willing to tell everyone they are making it makes me wounder what technology they are hiding...It's not just his, theres a lot of really cool technologies that DARPA keep announcing. Makes me wounder what the secret projects are.
hfactorJul 18, 2009
No, these are the ones that can magically be developed in a week.
Closed AccountJul 18, 2009
It makes THEM wonder too....
Closed AccountJul 18, 2009
Don't worry, this isn't going to work so well. Moths are erratic in nominal flight, that is probably an adaptation to avoid bats, birds and other predators. A moth under straight and level human control will make easy meat for some hungry bat!Of course.... one could employ some nifty counter measures. Figure out how many times a bat pings the target, and a what freq, then rig a little device to echo that same pulse two or three times is rapid succession at the same freq. Bat-Chaffe! The bat will see a really skewed picture of the target and probably overshoot.The problem of course is still energy. To collect any useful intel is going to need a lot of power. To employ counter-measures will require power. To control flight will require power. To receive signals from the controller will require power.I JUST HAD A THOUGHT?!?!??!?!?I wonder if that is why they are ALWAYS smashing into light bulbs?!!?!??! They're already wired.... utoh....
dirtpoorchrisJul 20, 2009
I saw the tree chopper and totally envisioned it as a body disposal system right away. What better way to clean up all your indiscriminate carpet bombings than with a automatic human disposer.
frostekOct 21, 2009
This is why my house is filled with spiders.