MICRO DRONES -- surveillance from mechanical insects and birds. They're already here.

[Bill Ryan]

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Dear All --

Two years ago I met and talked off-record with someone in California who had been personally involved in a program to develop insect-sized drones.

They're here now.

Please watch this. It's the scariest promotional video I've seen for quite a long time.

http://videos.designworldonline.com/...-Force-Bugbots (just over 4 mins)

Download the video here:

http://projectavalon.net/Micro_Air_Vehicles.mp4

It's not on YouTube as far as I know. Spread this far and wide. We're in a new world now, and everyone must realize it.

[SilentFeathers]

This is another "priority" topic that we need to pay close attention too, as they wil use these against us if they aren't already.

US Develops Robot Mosquito Spy Drones
Reports indicate that the US military has poured huge sums of money into surveillance drone miniaturization and is developing micro aircraft which now come in a swarm of bug-sized flying spies.
http://theintelhub.com/2012/07/30/us...to-spy-drones/



ADDED: Notice this one has an "injector"? Such as to vaccinate, poison, or implant/microchip a person?

[Sidney]

That mosquito drone appears to have a "needle" projecting from its "mouth". Handy way to administer a vaccine to an unwilling participant.

I think it a good idea to have a butterfly net and a jar handy at all times.

[Cidersomerset]

They were talking about it a few of years ago, they obviously have developed them..

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hP7FtwEejVI

Uploaded on 13 Dec 2009


The US Army granted engineers at the University of Maryland a 5 year, 10 million
dollar contract to develop tiny micro air vehicles to be used in war zones They
believe that these insect robots could save soldiers' lives by assisting them with
reconnaissance and surveillance in the most hostile environments.

[RMorgan]

Another creepy one, from BAE Systems, a major military company and DARPA contractor:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8CM-H3rRkxQ

Raf.

[write4change]

Do others wonder as I do how so many alternative thinkers that start gaining leadership die of cancer? Besides the Rubys and Caseys of the world, cancer appears to be both injectable and uncurable.

One that bothers me a lot is Terrance McKenna. I met him in the early 80s. He was way ahead of me and I did not understand him them. Now I have caught up to where he was leading. Not only did he die but his entire library and research papers were burned to the gound at Esalen. Thousands of rare books lost besides his research information only he had developed.

I think his botany project of saving rare hallucinogenic plants was also lost. Both he and Graham Hancock have been very explicit about this being an assault on human consciousness having nothing to do with addiction.

[Cidersomerset]

The worrying thing is China & Russia and other countries will have this technology
soon if they have not already. Also what a delivery system for 'CIADA' some sort
of' horror virus' or 'micro nuke' or someother scare weapon to keep us under control !!

Unfortunately we cannot halt technology only mindsets !!


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Big Bro' has been in our face,certainly since 9/11.Fear,Scare worry easier to control.



Anyone's a Terrorist: Fear-mongering machine takes over US

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8eqGliZBJjw

Uploaded on 28 Feb 2012


Presidential authorisation for the military to detain terror suspects without charge
or trial has left Americans wary. Washington says it's beefing up national security
as part of the war on terror. But critics say fear-mongering is dividing, not uniting
the nation. RT's Marina Portnaya reports.

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RT have put up many articles on related drone articles & I've posted a lot of them.

Medal of Droner: Pentagon award for deadly joystick warriors

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...stick-warriors

[MorningSong]

The news is certainly out:

The Future Of Micro Drones Could Get Downright Scary
Robert Johnson | Jun. 20, 2012, 11:49 AM

It's been several years since the rumors and sightings of insect sized micro drones started popping up around the world.

Vanessa Alarcon was a college student when she attended a 2007 anti-war protest in Washington, D.C. and heard someone shout, "Oh my God, look at those."

"I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?'" she told The Washington Post. "They looked like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects," she continued.

A lawyer there at the time confirmed they looked like dragonflies, but that they "definitely weren't insects".

And he's probably right.

In 2006 Flight International reported that the CIA had been developing micro UAVs as far back as the 1970s and had a mock-up in its Langley headquarters since 2003.

While we can go on listing roachbots, swarming nano drones, and synchronized MIT robots — private trader and former software engineer Alan Lovejoy points out that the future of nano drones could become even more unsettling.

Lovejoy found this CGI mock up of a mosquito drone equipped with the 'ability' to take DNA samples or possible inject objects beneath the skin.

According to Lovejoy:

Such a device could be controlled from a great distance and is equipped with a camera, microphone. It could land on you and then use its needle to take a DNA sample with the pain of a mosquito bite. Or it could inject a micro RFID tracking device under your skin.

It could land on you and stay, so that you take it with you into your home. Or it could fly into a building through a window. There are well-funded research projects working on such devices with such capabilities.

He offers some good links though his Google+ page and Ms. Smith at Network World offers up even more.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-f...#ixzz2LNBf0gtf

From the link at the end:

Alan Lovejoy
Jun 15, 2012 (edited) - Public
Is this a mosquito?

Nope! It's a mockup of an insect spy drone that will probably be real...eventually.

Such a device could be controlled from a great distance and is equipped with a camera, microphone. It could land on you and then use it's needle to take a DNA sample with the pain of a mosquito bite. Or it could inject a micro RFID tracking device under your skin.

It could land on you and stay, so that you take it with you into your home. Or it could fly into a bulding thru a window.

There are well-funded research projects working on such devices with such capabilities.

The device pictured isn't real, but only a CGI mock up [http://www.photosfan.com/insects/]

Read "The Transparent Society" by David Brin.

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References:

http://biology-forums.com/index.php?...a=view;id=6268

US accused of making insect spy robots: => http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...py-robots.html

Cyborg Moth Flies! (Video) & The Pentagon's battle bugs: => http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=3313

Air Force Developing Tiny Flying Insect Drones: => http://gizmoinsider.com/air-force-de...nes-92936.html


Real Swarm of Flying Nano Quadrotors Doing Flight Tricks HD

A robot that flies like a bird: => A robot that flies like a bird

https://plus.google.com/u/0/10325513...ts/TT1sSkff7Hm

From the comments of the above link:

Alan LovejoyJun 15, 2012 (edited)
I've been researching this for the past few hours. My conclusions so far:

The pictured insectoid spy-drone may be a fake, or may be just a non-functional mockup of what someone would like to build. I haven't been able to find a credible source to verify that it's functional hardware as described.

However, I have been able to find credible sources that claim devices that fit the description of 'insect-like drone' are under research and development.

And of course, anyone whose been following MEMS and nanotechnology for the past 25 years has been expecting such things to become operational this decade, and yet even more advanced things next decade.

There are more of his comments if you want to go through all of the comments to find them..interesting read, nonetheless.

[Hervé]

Going down from Micro to Nano, from http://www.sfgate.com/business/artic...#photo-2378250:

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Cal physicists make a radio 10,000 times thinner than a human hair

Bernadette Tansey, San Francisco Chronicle

Bernadette Tansey, Chronicle Staff Writer

Published 4:00 am, Thursday, November 1, 2007

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  This simulation shows the electric field surrounding the nanotube radio during radio operation. Notice how the field is strongest at the tip of the nanotube and how the field varies as the nanotube vibrates. This effect allows the nanotube radio to demodulate radio signals. Courtesy Zettl Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley Photo: Zettl Research Group, Lawrence B
  This simulation shows the electric field surrounding the nanotube...

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  Nanotube radio (2007). Photo courtesy of Zettl Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley
  Nanotube radio (2007). Photo courtesy of Zettl Research Group,...

Physicists at UC Berkeley say they have produced the world's smallest radio out of a single carbon nanotube that is 10,000 times thinner than a human hair.

Professor Alex Zettl led a team that developed the minuscule filament, which can be tuned to receive AM or FM transmissions.

The first song it played? "Layla" by Derek & the Dominos. Eric Clapton's unmistakable guitar riff can be heard on a scratchy recording of the nanoradio's output posted by Zettl online.

Zettl said the device, built by graduate student Kenneth Jensen, is the first radio within the size range of nanotechnology, which covers inventions no larger than 100 billionths of a meter. The nanoradio is 100 billion times smaller than the first commercial radios of the early 20th century. It is a thousand times smaller than the most minute radios in use today, which are based on silicon chip technology.

The research team has no commercial partners yet, but Zettl said the practical applications of the nanoradio could include cell phones, climate-monitoring systems and radio-controlled diagnostic probes that could move through the human bloodstream.

"Maybe the kids will be wearing these instead of iPods, inside their ears," Zettl said.
As long as 10 years ago, scientists had managed to build individual components of a radio on the nanoscale, he said. But Zettl and his colleagues figured out how to make a single nanotube perform all the functions of a radio: It serves as an antenna, tuner, amplifier and demodulator. The demodulator eliminates any frequencies from a radio transmission except the signal to be played, such as a song.

"I hate to sound like I'm selling a Ginsu knife - 'But wait, there's more! It also slices and dices!' - but this one nanotube does everything," Zettl said.

The key to this feat was making the nanoradio work differently from conventional radio electronics. The first step in that old technology is to convert radio waves into pulses of electronic current. By contrast, the nanotube absorbs the radio transmission and physically vibrates in response, like a tuning fork or the tiny hairlike structures inside the human ear. The filament has one end mounted in an electrode, but the other end is free. Its vibrations change the patterns in an electric field created by a battery. The varying electronic patterns become sounds or music audible through headphones.

Jensen's choice for one of the first songs played on the nanoradio was "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys.

But there is indeed more. The nanotube can also function as a transmitter. Theoretically, thousands of nanoradios distributed through the air or in the bloodstream could send back signals about air quality or the state of a patient's cells, Zettl said.

Carbon nanotubes are immensely strong compounds made of carbon atoms linked in a structure that looks like chicken wire. The carbon sheets can be formed into hollow tubes. Zettl's research team tweaked the nanotube structures and found that multi-walled cylinders - tubes within tubes - were better for picking up AM and FM transmissions. Single-walled nanotubes were best for receiving the frequencies used in cell phones.

The team built a transmitter in the lab based on conventional electronics, and first proved that the nanoradio could pick up and play "Layla" about 10 months ago. But the scientists held the news for publication in the journal Nano Letters, which posted it online on Wednesday. Along with Jensen and Zettl, the co-authors of the paper were UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Jeff Weldon and physics graduate student Henry Garcia. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.

Hear a recording of the first song ever played on a nanotube radio at sfgate.com/ZBKF.

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[Operator]

Well, the good news is that all this technology is easier to destroy with ESD (electrostatic discharge) or EMP the smaller it gets.

[Cidersomerset]

Well, the good news is that all this technology is easier to destroy with ESD (electrostatic discharge) or EMP the smaller it gets.

i hope so, it was becoming a bit depressing !! ..LOl..

[baddbob]

Want to buy one ?
http://www.microdrones.com/index.php

[Cidersomerset]

Want to buy one ?
http://www.microdrones.com/index.php

OMG , we will be able to spy on each other soon !

http://www.businessinsider.com/you-m...only-50-2013-1

You May Soon Be Able To Buy Your Own Drone For Only $50

Paul Szoldra|Jan. 28, 2013, 12:34 PM


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/you-m...#ixzz2LNVxh0vz

[johnf]

Posted by Operator (here)
Well, the good news is that all this technology is easier to destroy with ESD (electrostatic discharge) or EMP the smaller it gets.

Several years ago I spent a lot of time with my local linux group. I was taught right from the beggining security is the highest priority, because if a technology can be built, programmed etc, it can be hacked.
This is a principle that applies to us on the physical mental and spiritual levels too.
The multiple threads on the archons, etc, are testimony to that!
Unhack the planet! Unhack ourselves!

[Operator]

Posted by Cidersomerset (here)

OMG , we will be able to spy on each other soon !

You May Soon Be Able To Buy Your Own Drone For Only $50

Thanks for the tip ... my daughter wants one. She's looking around for a while now to buy a RC helicopter with camera.
I already told her that the 4 rotor spiders are actually much better. There are some that are fully intelligent and are
able to survey and map building interiors on their own. I think something like that was used too in the film Prometheus.

The application (or abuse!) for these things are endless. With an extra infrared camera you can also detect e.g. lifeforms.
You know what that means, don't you ...

[Operator]

This is what I mean:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3CR5y8qZf0Y

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2d4nBb5qY4k

Maybe not exactly micro ... but affordable drones for the public.

[Jeffrey]

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DARPA began to fund research into micro air vehicles (MAV’s) back in 2000. The goal was to develop ultra-small surveillance planes for military use. DARPA defined micro air vehicles as smaller than 15 cm in size or just less than 6 inches. MAV’s can be used for surveillance, chemical and biological agent detection, search and monitoring enemy forces and damage assessment.

[...]

One of the companies to develop an early MAV was AeroVironment. The MAV they developed weighed only 3 ounces and was 6 inches across. Called the Black Widow, the MAV could fly for 30 minutes, had a range of over one mile and could go up to 800 feet high. Black Widow transmitted color images back to the operator. Since developing the Black Widow, AeroVironment has gone on to develop several additional MAV models for a variety of uses and capabilities. They are working to develop models that will cost less than $5,000 each.

[...]

One interesting idea is to create a swarm of hundreds of MAV’s, all coordinating their movements to completely cover and monitor enemy movements. As conditions change or a MAV is damaged the others automatically adjust. This could also allow MAV’s to become an offensive weapon. The Defense Department is predicting that swarms of autonomous MAV’s will become a reality around 2015 (Defense Department report, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Roadmap, 2005 – 2030).

Full article here: http://websearch.about.com/gi/o.htm?...A//clusty.com/

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ST. LOUIS, Oct. 18, 2005 -- The Future Combat Systems (FCS) program has passed a significant milestone in its progress toward selecting a Class I Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system. The announcement was made today by Boeing [NYSE: BA] and partner Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the Lead Systems Integrator team for the U.S. Army's FCS program.

The Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), developed by Honeywell under a two-phased Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency advanced concept technology development contract, has achieved a technology readiness level 6. The readiness level is based on recent successes during government acceptance tests and pre-experimentation flights. The level 6 designation is consistent with FCS requirements to begin transitioning the technology to the FCS program.

"The Micro Air Vehicle has flown more than 200 successful flights, including flying in a representative urban environment," said Mark Franzblau, director, FCS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle system development. "We are confident it will continue to meet or exceed the goals of DARPA's contract and eventually transition to FCS as the preferred Class I UAV platform."

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Leveraging DARPA's investment in the Micro Air Vehicle technology, Boeing issued a system engineering contract in December 2004 to Honeywell to conduct a gap analysis identifying what additional development was required to transition the DARPA vehicle to an FCS-compliant Class I UAV system. Under the extended, nearly-three-million-dollar contract announced this week, Honeywell will continue the systems engineering analyses leading to a System Functional Review in March 2006. Following a successful review, Boeing intends to award a Class I UAV System Development and Demonstration contract to Honeywell. The development and demonstration phase will continue through FY2014 and will include the development and flight test of unmanned, autonomous vehicle prototypes.

Full article here: http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/...r_051018m.html

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Extremely small unmanned aircraft known as micro air vehicles represent an area of research with great potential for both civilian and military applications. While novel fixed-wing and rotary-wing designs continue to be investigated, a new trend in the MAV community is to take inspiration from flying insects or birds to achieve unprecedented flight capabilities using flapping-wing designs. Bird-like devices, knowns as ornithopters, and insect-like devices (entomopters) may overcome problems encountered in rotary-winged devices.

Even smaller vehicles, known as Nano Air Vehicles (NAV), with wingspans of less than 15 centimeters and weights of less that 20 grams explore low Reynolds number aerodynamics, power conversion efficiency, endurance and maneuverability of very small aircraft.

Nova Photonics research into micro and nano air vehicles has been carried out for DARPA's nano air vehicle project, for the US Naval Research Laboratory, the Army Research Laboratory and for the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Source: http://www.novaphotonics.com/MAV/MAV.html

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NuD1WKHsggs

See also:

DARPA - Nano Air Vehicles (NAV)

DARPA's Future Li-ion Batteries Will Be Smaller Than Grains of Salt

[Cidersomerset]

What did i say about China !

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GD_pJNwDd5U

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-CLIpBpLV90

[norman]

How good are they at detecting when someone else's insect drone is spying on them?


To defend againt these drones, I'd suggest getting a big powerful fan that can blow a lot air very quickly.

[aranuk]

Now if I were a hungry crow?

Stan