[ExI] Drones

Henrik Ohrstrom henrik.ohrstrom at gmail.com
Wed Jun 16 12:22:10 UTC 2021


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strix_mortar_round

Lethal drone in use since -94
Loiter time is somewhat limited but it is fully autonomous after deployment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mine
Way too long loiter time. Most of them also quite stupid as drones goes.

Anyone thinking that drone warfare is avoidable have way too thick
roseglasses.

/Henrik

Den tis 15 juni 2021 16:11ddraig--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> skrev:

>
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 23:33, spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
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>>
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>> We knew this was coming several years ago when the quad rotor drones
>> began to show up
>>
>
> When I was a kid, there was an article in a local newspaper in Melbourne
> about a weird death.  This guy had heard a noise outside, opened his back
> door to see what it was, and a remotely-controlled model airplane flew at
> high speed into his chest as he stood in the doorway, killing him. The
> police said it was a terrible accident, but I always wondered if it
> actually was an accident.  The plane seemed to be remarkably precise in
> it's flight path. I was a kid at the time, and I've never forgotten this
> article.  This was 1978? Something like that.  So, yeah, drones have made
> it easier to kill people (look at the footage of the resistance in Iraq
> dropping explosives onto US tank commanders from a drone) but I've been
> wondering since the 70s why this has taken so long to come about.
>
> Autonomous drones, though - that's very scary.
>
> I read a story about the same time - it was in an SF anthology edited by
> Sam Moskowitz, I think (Futures to Infinity).  Looking up the name of the
> story, I've just discovered it was written by Phillip K Dick, which is
> pretty cool to now realise, actually.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
>
> The newspaper article and the SF story made a powerful impression on me at
> the time (I was about 10 years old, I think)
>
> Anyway, there's a pile of things I've carried around in the back of my
> head since I was a kid, wondering when they'd manifest into reality.  The
> newspaper article and "Second Variety" are two of them.
>
> (I'm still waiting for roads to be dug up for their hydrocarbon content,
> amongst other things).
>
> Dwayne
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