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Dr. Slack

Sat Mar 03 2012, 06:00AM

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This brought a smile to my face this morning.

Go to YouTube and search for "quadrotors james bond"

We were nearly at the end of the clip and I was thinking "there's a guitar there and they haven't touched it yet!"

Goodchild

Sat Mar 03 2012, 06:54AM

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oh come on you made me search for it! I had to type stuff in....

Well worth it though!!!

I will save others form my pain

Dr. Drone

Sat Mar 03 2012, 05:54PM

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Patrick

Sat Mar 03 2012, 08:02PM

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From killing terrorists to playing music, the field for flying drones is wide open.

Dr. Slack

Sun Mar 04 2012, 10:55AM

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Dr. Spark wrote ...

Cool ; however, Let us pick up the beat @ .

I love the anthropomorhic speakers for the heads, it doesn't take much to give a bot personality.

I must say that after falling for the charm offensive and going "aaaah" to the music playing quadrotors, I can't look at them without thinking what an effective assassination bomb-carrier they would make. Just put yourself in the position of a bodyguard standing next to your principal in the middle of a football stadium, trying to pick off several quadrotors with a hand-gun, coming from different directions each flying an evasion pattern. Sort of the equivalent of a smart mortar.

Tetris

Sun Mar 04 2012, 08:51PM

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I saw this on memebase. Also I think killa-x has one. The music doesn't sound amazing, but the technology itself is. :D

Dr. Drone

Sun Mar 04 2012, 09:30PM

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Patrick

Mon Mar 05 2012, 02:25PM

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Dr. Slack wrote ...

I must say that after falling for the charm offensive and going "aaaah" to the music playing quadrotors, I can't look at them without thinking what an effective assassination bomb-carrier they would make. Just put yourself in the position of a bodyguard standing next to your principal in the middle of a football stadium, trying to pick off several quadrotors with a hand-gun, coming from different directions each flying an evasion pattern. Sort of the equivalent of a smart mortar.

careful here, we were all talking about this application at IARC6 in august of 2011. remember that the Secret service couldnt down a stolen bell huey landing on the White house lawn during the Nixon years, nor were they able to stop that suicidal guy in a Cessna 172 who crashed himself into the first family's living space during the Clinton years.

These drones would be even more difficult to down than low flying light aircraft. And lets not forget though a shotgun would destroy them--no doubt. The whole idea is not one or two making a a slow striaght decent. But a swarm of many rapid moving erratic weaving hi-lo exploding bots, each with a 20-40 foot kill radius, and collective/distributed intelligence. Only one has to get through to kill a person or destroy light equipment. (like the nuclear football or the bridge of a warship, or to over power a security checkpoint.)

Celebrities, Generals/Admirals in their own HQ's, Political leaders, Scientists, Cults, religious and anti-religious activists, could all be potential victims (or users) of this type of weapon.

Scary indeed, perhaps the wise nations and terrorists would seek to develop these drone weapons, (these can be used with total political deniability, by the agressing nation.) while the foolish like Iran and North korea will waste their time developing nuclear weapons that cant ever be used. (or the first time they are used, will be the last time those nations use anything ever again.)

It should be noted that:
the best way to kill a sniper, is with another "counter sniper."
And the best way to kill a submarine is with another submarine.
So too it would follow, that defensive drone swarms might be needed to detect and warn of hostile drones in hiding or already in flight, then security measures taken to protect equipment and remove high value individuals.

Forty

Tue Mar 06 2012, 03:59AM

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A fleet of deadly drones.. that you could stop with a net.

Patrick

Tue Mar 06 2012, 05:27AM

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Forty wrote ...

A fleet of deadly drones.. that you could stop with a net.

yes, having a prepared defense and a physical disposition of your choosing is a millennia long martial tradition that has proven itself well. However, you cant fortify every location, all the time, against every possible threat.

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