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The Navy Unveils "Cicada": Now Even the Drones Have Drones
- jerrya 15y agotl;dr Big drones have little drones, upon their backs to launch them And little drones have lesser drones An so on ad infinitum And the great drones, themselves, in turn Have greater drones to go on; While these again have greater still, And greater still, and so on.
- nextparadigms 15y agoI can't help but imagine that whoever has the bad luck of fighting against against the drones and robots of US will feel much like in Terminator 3, except the drones and robots won't attack on their own, but will be manned or sent by the US military instead.
- sebastianavina 15y agoat least they will learn to hate technology instead of the us.
- pyre 15y agoThe drones will become the new 'face' of the US in this possible future. They will still hate us, but they will see us less and less as human beings because most people in the affected areas will only ever be dealing with drones.
- hessenwolf 15y agoIt'll make false flag operations really blood easy.
- cema 15y agoexcept the drones and robots won't attack on their own Not for a while, anyway.
- TeMPOraL 15y ago> I can't help but imagine that whoever has the bad luck of fighting against against the drones and robots of US will feel much like in Terminator (...) Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/652/ http://xkcd.com/652/
- dons 15y agoClever idea to use the logic boards as wings.
- abailin 15y agoThis made my jaw drop; it's such a smart idea. I'm sure the voltage regulators and diodes benefit from a nice atmospheric cooling too.
- blrgeek 15y agoThey had to put in heaters for the high altitude model :) Commercial electronics have 0C as lower operating bound, although milspec is -40C.
- bradfordw 15y agoYo dawg, I heard you like drones...
- rd108 15y agoI have a feeling, looking back, that the birth of weaponized drones will be far worse for our world than the invention of the nuclear bomb. they're already being used domestically in the United States by law enforcement, which raises some pretty disturbing prospects. and now other countries (e.g. China) are creating drones at a breakneck pace....