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Someone suggested this to me as a possibility. Imagine a swarm of bugs with nothing more than a small amount of poison as a payload and an injector of kinds. Ki
by noobermin 8y ago
Someone suggested this to me as a possibility. Imagine a swarm of bugs with nothing more than a small amount of poison as a payload and an injector of kinds. Kind of scary to think about.
- pasbesoin 8y agoYou don't even need an injection mechanism. Imagine one depositing a contact poison briefly before the target makes contact with an object. I guess we'll all need >= 8 K surveillance footage, to try to analyze the vector.
- ataggart 8y agoOr 3g of shaped explosives. https://youtu.be/HipTO_7mUOw?t=67 https://youtu.be/HipTO_7mUOw?t=67
- kuprel 8y agoand with decentralized control
- freeflight 8y agoAs a kid, the acid spewing mechanical spiders in Runaway [0] always really terrified me. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/
- zby 8y agoYeah - this is scary. They would be mostly useful in targeted assassinations. This is a big political change. In the future you'll not need much army to control a remote government - just insect robots to kill the officials. I guess it will soon be very dangerous to be a politician. Think about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Fidel_Castro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Fide... Or about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_... It is double scary because they can easily be made untraceable. Like in that short story by Philip Dick that I forgot the title again.
- throwawaycanada 8y agoEspecially if they target people by race.
- otakucode 8y agoOr, armed with a small wireless mic and/or camera, crawling on the windowsill of every politician, snuggling behind their lapels, hanging off the back of their shirt. Every word they say and every thing they do open to public scrutiny...