Omega
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Eh, surveillance seems the last application to me? Too loud, can't see through mud, brick or sand, and transmitting a live image home would take power and/or be insecure. Good surveillance doesn't alert the target to the fact that they're being watched. But the GPS homing and the speed/maneuverability would make a very potent special delivery bot...I imagine expanding the number of programmable waypoints from 1 to 100 would be easy, and obviously GPS can do rough height measurements as well. Imagine if a medic could summon a tourniquet or medkit, in hostile situations. Or if I could open the window and summon a pizza. Or say you fit a harness to a well-trained wolverine, and you've given the most vicious (pound for pound) predator a set of UFO propulsion...
| Originally Posted by catachresis /img/forum/go_quote.gif A larger model with a set of video cameras could be extraordinarily effective for covert surveillance. It seems to be extremely stable, maneuverable, and--relative to other drone models--inexpensive to manufacture. An assembly line that ground out thousands of these at around $500 a pop would make them almost disposable by military standards. What I can't figure out is why it hasn't snapped-up by and occulted by a shadowy investment cartel--all the sites that had previewed it shut-down or blanketed with statements from the inventor that the design ultimately proved to be unworkable. Then three years and $50 million later, somewhere in southwestern Pakistan, near the North Korean border, or in the jungles of Columbia, combatants begin to hear the maniacal drone of high-powered bees. . . . |
Eh, surveillance seems the last application to me? Too loud, can't see through mud, brick or sand, and transmitting a live image home would take power and/or be insecure. Good surveillance doesn't alert the target to the fact that they're being watched. But the GPS homing and the speed/maneuverability would make a very potent special delivery bot...I imagine expanding the number of programmable waypoints from 1 to 100 would be easy, and obviously GPS can do rough height measurements as well. Imagine if a medic could summon a tourniquet or medkit, in hostile situations. Or if I could open the window and summon a pizza. Or say you fit a harness to a well-trained wolverine, and you've given the most vicious (pound for pound) predator a set of UFO propulsion...
