Steven J. Weller Subject: Re: Our future robotic overlords will play hoops. > > Thing on the news last night about a robotic HUMMINGBIRD, complete > with onboard spy camera, that flys by wire. Not some guy with a > joystick, but a computer program that controls the thing, which looks > surprisingly realistic in both its general appearance and the way in > which it moves. > This isn't speculation or a computer-generated realization of an on- > paper concept. The were flying the little thing all around the stage > at a press conference. > > Hadn't really though so much about weaponizing them, but that's > interesting, too. I suppose.
studio wrote: I've heard of even smaller, like fly size. Yes, weaponizing them... all you'd have to do is put a tiny syringe of poison on them and walla, you got a tiny assassin. And then what if they had enough to make swarms of these things for crowd control and just put everyone to sleep or worse? Steven J. Weller wrote: > A swarm of these things, each one on its own computer program, is > actually pretty disturbing. > ... but a > cloud of killer mechanical humming birds, each one totally autonomus > but also with the same nefarious goal? That's creepy as all hell. studio wrote: They'd be next to impossible to shoot down with a gun, that's fer sure. I can hear the NRA now; everyone has a right to own a hummingbird; it's in the Constitution somewhere. My point is, the Constitution will become more outdated than you can possibly imagine in the not-so-distant future. The Constitution is NOT a Bible, nor should it be, and unlike the Bible, it does NOT state that it can't be edited, amended or added to. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
