Lethal insects
January 31, 2007 7:32 AM   Subscribe

Last week it was a ray gun to fry you with, this week its robotic insects to buzz terrorists to death. "The only problem, of course, is if the bad guys wind up with a few of these MAVs: "Big dangers can ensue from terrorists. For instance, using MAVs with small explosive charges to assassinate high-level politicians or to transport biological/chemical agents into protected infrastructure.""
posted by infini (14 comments total)

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I'm curious--what rules were broken on the Bush posting that just disappeared? I'm not arguing, just asking.
posted by etaoin at 7:36 AM on January 31, 2007


And all of these weapons are completely useless against bombs hidden in debris on Baghdad street corners, or civilian fighters mingled in urban crowds who fire off a few rounds and then disappear.
posted by Pastabagel at 7:36 AM on January 31, 2007


Previously.
posted by Smart Dalek at 7:39 AM on January 31, 2007


I'm curious--what rules were broken on the Bush posting that just disappeared? I'm not arguing, just asking.

Look and see
. The threads are numbered sequentially. The article was weak. Basically they used their Isiah Thomas article and search and replaced. By the way this kind of thing belongs in metatalk.
posted by srboisvert at 7:51 AM on January 31, 2007


I'm curious--what rules were broken on the Bush posting that just disappeared? I'm not arguing, just asking.

It seems you've mistaken this post for Jessamyn's email.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:52 AM on January 31, 2007


So someone now has to develop robotic Raid: kills flies, mosquitoes, gnats, robotic insects, MAVs, and other annoying weapons of death as they fly through the mist, so there is no need to spray them directly. Plus, it has a clean, pleasant scent.

A clean, pleasant scent. That's will be the important thing.
posted by three blind mice at 8:09 AM on January 31, 2007


I like it the robotic Raid idea. Maybe something like Raid-EMP, a small cylindrical device that emits a localized electromagnetic pulse to disable the MAVs.
posted by tadellin at 8:29 AM on January 31, 2007


I'm curious about this mole on my back. Firsly: Is it cancerous? And secondly: How the hell did I manage to see it?
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:46 AM on January 31, 2007


If you build it sooner or later everyone will want it.
The machine gun was crafted, at least in part, for colonial powers to hold on to their territories (one gun was sufficient to hold hundreds of irate spear carriers). When said gun became cheap enough they where then in turn used to kick those colonial powers out.
Nuclear weapons where developed and used to a) stop a war and b) send a big "don't fuck with us" message to the Russians. Now wars are being fought and planned to prevent the spread of the technology, and in reality it's just a holding action.
That's the history of arms in a nutshell. It's not like each individual unit will cost $millions to make. Once one of those ray guns, especially, falls into competent hands you'll be seeing them mass made in places such as Darra Adam Khel.
posted by edgeways at 8:46 AM on January 31, 2007 [1 favorite]


Talibanator? Surely someone could've come up with a better nickname than that. At least a more generic term like Bumblenator. Or DragonDie.

Maybe WASP is a cool acronym like "Wee And Stops People."

Okay, that really wasn't cool after all. I need to think about this more. Or less.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 9:32 AM on January 31, 2007


Big dangers can ensue from terrorists.
I always love how new technology/weapons are presented as really cool, clean tools for the "good guys", but terrible, deadly problems in the hands of the "bad guys". As if we would never, ever think to use these things to assassinate a political leader...
posted by Thorzdad at 9:49 AM on January 31, 2007


Exactly, Thorzdad: weapons are only good when we use them?
posted by Lord Kinbote at 10:01 AM on January 31, 2007


Imagine a magazine for the bad guys called Terror Arms Quarterly, describing cool features of weapons like Molotov cocktails or IEDs, but warning of the consequences once the technology falls into the hands of governments!
posted by Lord Kinbote at 10:05 AM on January 31, 2007


Its kinda ironic really, a WASP used on little brown terrorists...
posted by infini at 10:23 AM on January 31, 2007


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