OT- Nanotech flying assassin robots.

Here come the Dune hunter-seekers:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?cha...005D5F53F7A1D3
Burt Rutan was right; years ago in a AW&ST article he predicted the
future fighter was a thing about the size of a dragonfly that would be
released in vast numbers, and home in on anyone not carrying the proper
IFF gear...to either inject them with poison or hit them square in the
forehead with a small shaped-charge explosive.

Pat

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:29:05 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote:

Here come the Dune hunter-seekers:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?cha...005D5F53F7A1D3
Burt Rutan was right; years ago in a AW&ST article he predicted the
future fighter was a thing about the size of a dragonfly that would be
released in vast numbers, and home in on anyone not carrying the proper
IFF gear...to either inject them with poison or hit them square in the
forehead with a small shaped-charge explosive.

I wish I'd been born 50 years earlier than I was. I'd be dead by now.

Dale

Dale wrote:

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:29:05 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote:



Here come the Dune hunter-seekers:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?cha...005D5F53F7A1D3
Burt Rutan was right; years ago in a AW&ST article he predicted the
future fighter was a thing about the size of a dragonfly that would be
released in vast numbers, and home in on anyone not carrying the proper
IFF gear...to either inject them with poison or hit them square in the
forehead with a small shaped-charge explosive.


I wish I'd been born 50 years earlier than I was. I'd be dead by now.

Dale



Cheer up! The other side will field robotic soldiers, and pretty soon
war will consist of two robotic armies blowing the living crap out of
each other with no humans getting hurt. :-)

Pat

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Dale wrote:

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:29:05 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote:


Here come the Dune hunter-seekers:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?cha...214CFBE603B7F9
F9BC005D5F53F7A1D3
Burt Rutan was right; years ago in a AW&ST article he predicted the
future fighter was a thing about the size of a dragonfly that would
be released in vast numbers, and home in on anyone not carrying the
proper IFF gear...to either inject them with poison or hit them
square in the forehead with a small shaped-charge explosive.

I wish I'd been born 50 years earlier than I was. I'd be dead by now.

Dale


Cheer up! The other side will field robotic soldiers, and pretty soon
war will consist of two robotic armies blowing the living crap out of
each other with no humans getting hurt. :-)


That's because there won't be any humans left. Remember "Second
Variety"?

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:04:11 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:


Cheer up! The other side will field robotic soldiers, and pretty soon
war will consist of two robotic armies blowing the living crap out of
each other with no humans getting hurt. :-)

Pat

Or, wars will be fought with computer simulations, possibly even
Playstation and X-box type stuff. The casualties will simply report
to the destruction chambers...

Jonathan Silverlight wrote:


That's because there won't be any humans left. Remember "Second Variety"?


I was thinking of Bunch's "Moderan" stories, but they're closer to the Borg.

Pat

Alan Jones wrote:


Or, wars will be fought with computer simulations, possibly even
Playstation and X-box type stuff. The casualties will simply report
to the destruction chambers...



I still like the concept where we stick the one American and one Chinese
guy on the island to fight it out. :-)

Pat

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:29:05 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Here come the Dune hunter-seekers:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?cha...005D5F53F7A1D3

....And since it's the Israelis who are developing this one, I propose
they use Elfritz as the guinea nazi.

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"Alan Jones" wrote in message
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Or, wars will be fought with computer simulations, possibly even
Playstation and X-box type stuff. The casualties will simply report
to the destruction chambers...


the prettiest and classiest guest star ever to appear in TOS was on that
episode. No clue what her name was, but ohmigod.


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Terrell Miller


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Terrell Miller wrote:



the prettiest and classiest guest star ever to appear in TOS was on that
episode. No clue what her name was, but ohmigod.




Barbara Babcock: http://www.homevideos.com/startreks/st75.htm
Never trust a society where men wear wastepaper baskets on their heads. :-)

Pat