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My point is, the Constitution will become more outdated than you can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.
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