[ExI] FW: bee free, honey! it's fake

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Cc: Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com>

>>... I proposed that the French modify a laser insect killer Jordan Kare was 
> involved with to protect hives.
>
>>... Nothing came of it... Keith

>...I wonder if some of the counter-drone work being done these days might be usefully applied against this smaller, more organic drone.  Adrian

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Ja no doubt.  

When I was reminded of Jordan Kare's bug laser work, I thought of a fun variation kinda where you try to fight or shoot down murder hornets with a steerable laser, but we make it a pulse laser with some kind of visible feedback, like those projectile thingies used by the grossly incompetent storm troopers from Star Wars.  Those who had The Force could deflect them with a light saber.  

If we could figure out a way to make a pulse laser, then combine the laser with a trigger, and we could even up the game a bit, make it a real contest.  Even better if we could simulate the murder hornet returning fire somehow, but the critical element is not to have an ordinary first-person shooter computer game, a bug version of Duke Nukem (don't we already have enough of that?) but to somehow have a real meat-world bug in our crosshairs.  That would be so cool!  Expensive, but cool.

Murder hornets have shown up here in at least three locations, but last I heard they were all found and eradicated.  If they come back and we find the nest... bug tank, miniaturized Sherman M4A perhaps, with a laser in place of the cannon.  We rumble up there and start plugging away at the Nazi hornets.

Sure there are those who will argue that murder hornets are not toys, and that particular invasion is serious business.  OK sure.  But I would counter argue that ANY business which makes actual profit is serious business.  It is my private definition of the term "serious."  It is a kind of adjective, most appropriately placed before the noun "profit."

We rent time on our laser bug tank to internet war gamers, make a cubic buttload while saving billions in ag products and preserving the environment, all while making a second buttload off of the plans to build the thing.  Everybody wins.  Everybody except the murder hornets, they mess with our beautiful little honey  bees, we use pulsed voltage strips or bug tanks, remorselessly blast those stingity-ass bitches into bug hell.

spike