A small follow-up to our earlier post on drones. Here we are a few days later: fleets of tiny drones flying in formation in a lab. To tell you the truth, I want a set of about fifty or so. I’d spend days flying them around the house, cackling wildly. But, wouldn’t you know, the first thing everyone says is, “Military applications!”
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Those are so cute! I want some!
Yup, me too…
How’s Slim Pickins supposed to fit on one of those?
Not only that, but hard to strap a nuke on, too.
I suspect the “Ooh, military!” stuff is more along the lines of spying, command-and-control, and, possibly, targeted killing using something super-toxic, like ricin or polonium. Although, of course, if you could send out a fleet of thousands to target anything bipedal and warmblooded, they might actually be more effective than big ole bombs.
Or they could be providing firefly-lights for garden parties.
It’s all kind of depressing. Another one of those things: “you can have fun or you can have hell on earth, but not both.”
Too small to strap a nuke on but plenty large enough for multiple cameras and data collection. The control of these drones in formation is both fascinating and creepy. All this stuff we’ve seen in Sci-fi movies is beginning to have roots in reality. The evolutionary speed, the ever-improved, new generations is pretty stunning. We may hit that moment of singularity before anyone expected–the coming together of computer, nano, robotics and genetic technology. Brave new world!