recording Drones that fly and position themselves as programmed have indeed been made as tiny as a fly. Right now only a few organizations have them and they are very, very, expensive. So, if you want to really tick off someone spying on you with a nano-drone, smash it.. LoL
We can expect the cost of the micro nano drones to drop with new advances in crystalline manufacture and quantum electronics. One goal is to eventually develop one that can be used for medical exploration of sick people by injecting a few into a vein or artery.
Yes, Boston Dynamics was winning the DARPA (Defense Advance Research Projects) robot challenge, so Google purchased them. The winning military robot design team will be paid millions if our defense department chooses a winner (they may pick several). Here is a video showing some of the DARPA contestants from Boston Dynamics 2 years ago.
Indeed. They can carry spy equipment, radar, explosives or small nukes. Only imagination limits them.
For about a decade now within the US military there are debates that even the plane pilots are themselves obsolete. Air France experimented a decade ago with auto pilot flown passenger planes running commuter routes with fairly few problems. AI development has come a long way since then. The USN was forced to allow some carrier launches of very limited IQ drones a couple of years ago and fought hard to block it. The drone test fights went smoothly and now behind the scenes fighting inside the Navy is what is blocking more financial support for the program. The fast path to Navy promotion is service as a plane jockey or a submarine crewman. If both jobs can be done by drones, how will folks get promoted? Much like the old army horse cavalry objecting to tanks and armored cars. The mission in the video you show me, no reason at all a drone plane couldn't have done the drop of the smaller drones, thereby not exposing a human to any risk. Well, one reason. Air Force pilot ego, The same fears as the Navy. How will we get promoted if no one is a pilot? LoL.
Drone war craft in land sea and air are a coming reality. Program the AI with an assignment and let it fly, swim or wheel away. If it is shot down there is no pilot to be taken POW or killed. It can take almost unlimited G forces and will therefore be vastly faster and more maneuverable than a human piloted opponent. It can make shoot, don't shoot decisions or react to a threat in a fraction of the time a human pilot can. The body mass of a human pilot and his/her life support equipment can be replaced with an equal mass of armament or fuel. It is amazing how much of the space inside a craft is taken up by human pilot or crew needs. Replace all that with an armored breadbox sized computer and the plane, boat or fighting vehicle can be much smaller too. Noting smaller also often means faster, which equates to harder to kill.
I wonder if China will help N. Korea clone the drone that can carry a 1 ton payload. I can easily envision a flight of 300 - 500 of them all crossing the border at top speed heading to Seoul with ground forces trying to guess which ones are the ones that absolutely must be stopped.
My experience in foreign countries is the fastest way to pick up the language is to hire a local lover to help and move in with them. After a month or two you will speak it like a native.
Yeah, Kirby J Hensly ordainded me as a Minister of his Universal Life church back in 1968 I believe it was. I was 14, but I did have the $5 ordination fee.
Part II When we also look at Deuteronomy 4:17 and Psalm 11:4 we see Ragiya is presented as something solid.
Indeed many ancient cultures did believe the Heavens were a solid, perhaps a dome under which the Earth sat. The ancient Sumerians stated everything is just a part of one big thing. So they maintained their own god (note small g) had taught them.
So jump ahead thousands and thousands of years to today. Enter the world of quantum physics and cosmology. In 1934 some Soviet physicists speculated that gravity is the result of very tiny particles called gravitons binding the Universe together. And there the matter sat while scientists debated that if gravitons existed, then how could they be detected? Meanwhile other theories of the Universe and quantum mechanics were developed. A belief began to emerge that essentially all of the Universe on a quantum level is just a foam of sub atomic particles constantly changing state. Many, many, debates and arguments later and with some funding a way of possibly detecting a graviton was worked out on paper and a couple of huge apparatus were built to see if the concept of gravitons had any validity.
Most of you know what a neutron star is. The remnant of a supernova. The inner core compressed by the explosion so densly that all of the electrons and protons of the materials inside were squished into just one neutron mass. Neutronium. A material so dense a cubic inch of it would weigh many thousands of pounds.
Something remarkable happened 170 million years ago. Luckily for us it happened 170 million light years away from us. Two neutron stars slammed together and made the mother of all explosions. Literally the explosion shook the Universe. Like a ripple in water a wave of gravitons spread out across the Universe as the 'cosmic quantum foam' shook like a someone had dropped a big rock onto a foam bed.
The awesome apparatus built by the astrophysicists as well as radio listening devices, as well as telescopes looking in the right direction all captured the explosion, the light pulse, the radio pulse AND a ripple of gravitons passing through the Earth.
Gravitatons are real. The Universe is a sea of foam. Ragiya meant the firmament that the Universe is made of. I accept the apologies of our early ape men ancestors trying to fit concepts like quantum foam and the interconnection of everything into the limited language of a post apocalypse Bronze Age society. Much as when the word 'clay' is used to describe DNA, firmament meant quantum foam and Ragiya is explained.
Now, being the artificially created DNA hybrid warriors Man is, the next step for us is to figure out how to capture and use or project gravitons as a weapon.
I used to work with a man named Frank who as an 18 year old American soldier was bayoneted twice on the death march, He had been wounded in the leg earlier so he lagged behind, So he got run through by some Japanese soldier who grew tired of telling him to keep up with the others. Later as he lay on the ground a second Japanese soldier came by and decided he was still looking too healthy, so another bayonet went through him. After that he didn't move much. A day later as he lay there dying some natives came and carried him off and treated his wounds in secret back in their village. A year later he was well enough to join their resistance. Pre positioned caches, targets of opportunity, fight, kill and run, never lead them back to a village, and on and on until the Americans came back years later.
Gosh he hated the Japanese. Hated MacArthur too for forgiving so much. It was the early 70s. He drove a coal truck, I was the night watchman in the coal yard. Along came the Nissan cars. Suddenly he had a string of strange accidents with the coal trucks. Kept smashing them into Nissans. One day he sideswiped one that was actually driven by someone from Japan who made the (almost fatal) mistake of saying not nice things to him in Japanese. Words he had heard before when dealing with Japanese soldiers and their 'secret' police. He beat that man half to death with one of the big wrenches those trucks carried. When the police arrived he was happily smashing the Japanese car to pieces with the wrench while the driver lay unconscious on the ground with a cracked skull, A big hubablu of course. Arrested, charged with attempted murder, psychiatric defense, fighting words, all that. In the midst of it the guy with the cracked skull went back to Japan and the case fell apart. So Frank came back to the truck yard. The owners wouldn't let him drive the trucks anymore, but Frank was union, and the union went to bat for him. The long and short was Frank became the night mechanic in the truck yard I was the night watchman of. I heard many tales about WW2 from him. About fighting a guerilla war and staying alive, about villagers who helped and those who died. About the things the Japanese did. Comfort women and how they were treated (including the American nurses who had treated him at Corregidor, as well as some girls and women from native villlages the Japanese visited), tracking down and executing the families of Philipine soldiers, beating village headmen an their wife to death, fun stuff like that. Stuff like the Romans did in what later became England. And I was told of things done as revenge Why a club is sometimes better than a gun, etc, etc. 12 hours a day, 6 days a week for almost a year I was stuck in a shack listening to the tirades about the Japanese and the Philippines. Poor Frank. He had the worse case of PTSD I have ever seen, but he was in the wrong war. The Veterans Administration did not offer PTSD treatment for WW2 vets.
You should try talking to him about the issues. That always worked with my Toms. Admittedly sometimes I had to have more than one discussion with them, but eventually they understood and stopped wandering so far away.
PS also take a photo, show your neighbors and ask them to stop feeding him.
Er, actually Moses is a Sumerian tale also. Most of the Old Testament is plagairized from Sumer and Mespotamian writings. Abraham was a Sumerian who had gone into Mespotamia right after the time of the great lament (along with a few thousand other refugees). The whole Hebrew thing was largely his invention, a mish mash of borrowed tales set in more contermporary times.
LoL, almost ALL scentific advances were military funded or driven. If there were no wars we would have never figured out how to use fire or make a wheel to carry soldiers with. Look deep at all inventions after 1500 or so. They were all done for a military or spun off something invented for a military. Without military to drive it, there is no science.
I am not worried about Florida. Those folks have the option of fleeing now. Most of our islanders however do not have that option, even if they have the money, there are only so many airplane flights scheduled and friends on the ground there are reporting all flights are already over booked. We are already approaching the final opportunity to make a safe get away by boat, indeed that time has already passed for the island of Antigua. The island of Puerto Rico has 4.5 milion residents. Eighty percent live near the coast. There are only a few highways leaving the coastal areas and they are normally jammed anyway. In Florida folks can just hop in their car and leave. That doesn't work on an island.
LoL, trust me, when Saint Thomas goes under water, then the mainstream US will howl. Likewise when they get the new bill for disaster relief from Puerto Rico EVERYONE here will howl.
There is no point in stopping it and doing so would be self defeating. Remember the Ananakai fleet is due back in 2160. We need newer and better weapons. Such things are developed fastest in wars. 15.000 years ago Marduk plastered our ancestors with 5 or 6 nuclear warheads then fled for reinforcements. Trust me he is planning on coming back. The good news is due to relativity effects his homeworld may have died while he was here mining the Earth's gold The bad news is if his homeworld and race did not die off they have had 15,000 years of technology advance past nukes and sleeper ships.Of course his failure to just pop up in Mars orbit implies his race has not yet discovered warp drive or teleportation yet, so we may have an edge by 2160, but not if we halt weapons development.
LoL, I was on the ground during Katrina/Rita as one of the DOJ contracted Blackwater types. I got to see a lot of the behind the scenes mess ups during that crisis. IMO the biggest thing wrong were the egos of certain elected officials in Louisiana/New Orleans. They kept interfering in FEMA efforts and not approving things that needed to be done. Then you had the issue that the Hurricane impacted two different FEMA regions and until 1 person was appointed to be in charge of both, coordination was problematic. Even then DC Officials kept meddling. Lots of egos had their feathers ruffled. One meeting in the FEMA trailer park Mayor Nagin announced it was his city, he was the Mayor and he was therefore in charge. The FEMA official Nagin was berating lost his temper at the trucculent child and told him flat, 'mayor of what? You evacuated your city and had us round up everyone who didn't leave, then approved their deportation from the city. You have no constituents left. You are the Mayor of a ghost town, one without electricty, water or sanitation inhabited only by our people and those you yourself declared to be criminals. You are the mayor of NOTHING.'
Nagin walked out of the meeting right then fuming, his ego punctured. The next day he held a press conference and even though the town had no water, no electricity, no open hospital, no working fire department, no water supply, no sanitation, no etc., etc. declared the city to be open and that all residents and business owners should return.
Bourbon Street bar owners were the first to return, bless them. They brought barbecue grills and set up a barbecue on the street so us emergency workers could get hamburgers and french fries. A very welcome change from 3 weeks of MREs.
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RE: Ode To Emmycat
I am very sad to learn of your loss. You did the right thing. It is a horrible shame that we usually outlive our pets because we love them so much.