Posted on 03/22/2013 8:56:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Note to self: Get smaller shotgun loads. Sand-size.
We’re all going to need rf blocking devices in our homes and properties to thwart this.
Stock up on electric fly swatters.
Seriously, do we have to put up nets around our property now?
They will probably fly in multiples, some of which can cut ordinary netting and other types of screens.
Wait till this is ‘commonly available’ technology in 10 years. And the crazy people get them.
And the terrorists. These look perfect for spreading a pandemic weaponized microbe. Instead of a few patient zeros showing up in the ER’s, there might be hundreds of thousands of patient zeros.
If we’re getting pics of them the Chinese probably already have the plans and tech. Which means it’s probably for sale to the highest bidder already.
Now, here’s a useful way for me to get the shark...
9s are a good place to start.
This sort of thing has been appearing in science fiction novels for quite a while.
Also appearing in science fiction is digital money which cannot be traced, cannot be taxed.
At some point, these things (in fiction, anyway) tend to build a world in which the concept of government has no place at all.
Just one example: “The Diamond Age” by Neil Stephenson. Nanotechnology, post-scarcity economy, no real cash, the concept of government replaced by Distributed Republics which are not based on territory but are more like club memberships with mutual support agreements for people who are “citizens” of the club.
Interesting world coming our way — and I’m not sure people like Reid, Pelosi or Obama will have any role to play at all.
It won’t just be the government playing with drones.
Ordinary people will have drones.... just consider the possibilities.
Today we have anonymity on the internet...tomorrow we will have anonymity in the real world!
Even if a drone is intercepted and examined...who made it? who was operating it? What data did it send back to them? Has it been used before and we just didn’t detect it???
You will need a survelliance system to monitor the survelliance system to search and destroy!
I don’t think your bug zapper will deter this backyard pest.
Poor snake..............:-)
Well if they start flying over my property within shotgun range I’m going to exercise the air rights that came with the purchase of the property and blow the little devils to kingdom come.
Stock up on electric fly swatters.
Seriously, do we have to put up nets around our property now?
It will only take one crazy with a weaponized microbe and there won’t be very many people in *any* republic at all.
Don’t think the elites haven’t been drooling over this possibility for the past 100 years or more.
And their families will have been innoculated against the weaponized microbe. Yours? not so much with that protection.
How do you protect a military base against these. Even over and above the spying potential. From heaven only knows who, only 10 or 20 could cause havoc if they carried a microbe, or even small amounts of highly radioactive substances.
And restraining orders and registered sex offender lists become meaningless with these as well. Imagine these in the hands of a thrill killer. Like Lanza. Or Holmes, who we now find out was possibly a muzzie all along.
The bugzapper and fly swatter comments are entertaining but only because the public hasn’t grasped the complete potential of these.
Know how easy it is for your computer to get infected with malware when you surf the net? Imagine that computer is YOU and the malware gets loaded when you go to the mall or grocery store. Tracking devices, poisons, microbes, you name it.
You won’t even know they’re there. How would you tell the difference between one of these and a really big *real* mosquito? Are you gonna waste buckshot shooting every mosquito in Georgia?
What about when you’re asleep? And the ones that will attach to your clothing while you’re unloading the groceries from the car?
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