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The Dragon Never Sleeps  Group: Admin Posts: 6,924 Joined: 1-September 05 Member No.: 7,667  |
Remote Controlled Pigeons
Hitchcocks' The Birds.. Now imagine adding some C12 to a group of pigeons... |
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Feb 27 2007, 03:29 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,526 Joined: 9-April 06 From: McGuire AFB, NJ Member No.: 8,445 |
Wow... That's so much better than my remote control cat idea...
[Goes back to the lab to draw up plans for a remote control shark... with lazers] |
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Feb 27 2007, 05:17 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,237 Joined: 31-December 06 Member No.: 10,502 |
Hmmm. Like slamhounds but airborn. Not bad.
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Feb 28 2007, 01:31 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 366 Joined: 9-August 06 From: Holiday Florida Member No.: 9,055 |
In WW2 the Russians had a uniquely smart Anti-tank weapon: Trained dogs. They conditioned dogs to run up to tanks and lie down underneath the chassis. In training, the dogs wore weighted vests, in the field these vests were filled with TNT.
Similar concept, less tech and more time spent training, but effective none the less. |
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Feb 28 2007, 03:18 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 205 Joined: 7-January 07 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 10,558 |
Those poor doggies :(
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Feb 28 2007, 03:26 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 366 Joined: 9-August 06 From: Holiday Florida Member No.: 9,055 |
<shrugs> The Palestinians use people. |
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Feb 28 2007, 04:18 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
Not-so-smart bombs. But effective nonetheless. |
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Feb 28 2007, 04:52 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 269 Joined: 8-November 04 Member No.: 6,817 |
Maybe it's just hearsay, but I've heard that the dogs ran beneath russian tanks and blew them up, because the russians had been using an old russian tank for training the dogs. I like the pigeon-tech. Now, if it can be done with birds, can you do it with humans? |
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Mar 1 2007, 01:03 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 777 Joined: 22-November 06 Member No.: 9,934 |
IRl...yes...yes it can. in SR their is fluff about the animals being remote controlled, but wouldn't microdrones be less costly? |
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Mar 1 2007, 01:11 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 21-December 06 Member No.: 10,416 |
That has been the problem so far. Birds can carry small payloads, but not really enough to do much good. A drone or the like could do the same job, maybe for less cost and it would certainly cut out the lawfare angle of animals rights groups suing over the use of birds as fire bombs. |
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Mar 1 2007, 02:03 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 205 Joined: 7-January 07 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 10,558 |
I suppose the pigeons wouldnt fly high enough for you to use a flock to take out planes (ala Indiana Jones)
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Mar 1 2007, 01:23 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 366 Joined: 9-August 06 From: Holiday Florida Member No.: 9,055 |
Nah, but they could REALLY give a ground effect craft like a thunderbird a bad day.
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Mar 2 2007, 04:39 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 718 Joined: 10-September 05 From: Montevideo, in the elusive shadows of Latin America Member No.: 7,727 |
Funny. I have read in some adventure, can't remember which, that the chinese corp Tan Tien was into making animal drones.
Why worrying about designing a flying drone or a submersible if millenia of evolution have already done the job for ya? just plug in the skillwires, transceiver and VCrig and you are on. Don't forget to set a couple lasers on that shark. Cheers, Max |
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Mar 4 2007, 11:56 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 269 Joined: 8-November 04 Member No.: 6,817 |
I'm getting flashbacks from Red Alert 2, with the mindcontrolled squids fighting the trained dolphins. Ah, that was a great game. Mindcontrolled giant squids could make a (joke) entrance into my Shadowrun game to. Remember the tentacled thingy mentioned on the news in 2XS, crawling out of lake washington?
Cool. And I guess it can be done in SR too, like bunraku flesh puppets, but with more violence and less sex. Is there any particular reason why we haven't seen more electronical mindcontrol in SR? I guess it would be horrible for a megacorp to have word of research into thought-control leaking out, but IIRC deus had something like this(I have never read any of the details on the arcology), and others could have it too. |
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Mar 7 2007, 01:54 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 556 Joined: 28-May 04 From: Moorhead, MN, USA Member No.: 6,367 |
Ahem! "Frickin lasers!" |
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