[ExI] the eagles are coming!

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 01:49:16 UTC 2016


On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:58 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
> Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] the eagles are coming!
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> >…I was just ragging the defense- minded Repubs.  bill w
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> Oh, ja OK.
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> Low tech doesn’t really win the day there however.  For taking out the
> quad-rotor low-end drones, there are lasers easily capable of doing that.
> That class of drones are low and slow, easy to detect on RADAR, easy to hit
> and take out, no good way to shield them (they can’t lift enough mass.)
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> Regarding a new kind of army, there is a reason why we never hear the end
> of the Benghazi attack on 11 Sept 2012.  For that kind of fixed asset (the
> embassy) there are pleeeeenty of good ways to defend that.  It could have
> been defended with non-lethal deterrence, with perfect identification
> friend or foe, the defenders sitting in air-conditioned offices in Nevada.
> The attackers could have limped out of there under their own power with
> little serious permanent damage, the ambassador could have lived to
> ambassad another day (assuming that particular office is occupied by one
> who ambassads or who ambassaded at some time in the past.)
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> As for using eagles, the animal rights people will not like it.  Recall
> the proposals a long time ago for using pigeons to guide missiles.  That
> didn’t fly.  They have a point: nonhuman beasts should not be recruited to
> fight the wars of another species.
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> ​Another reference to B F Skinner, w*ho demonstrated that pigeons could
> do much better than people in spotting people floating in the water.  As to
> why that was cancelled I just dunno.  And fyi - duck hawks can dive at 160
> mph.  Can drones better that?  bill w*
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