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via boingboing<br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2905/imagesfourvehiclescloseupnn2.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Wednesday, September 27, 2006<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/27/micro_air_vehicles_t.html"><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Micro air vehicles that cooperate</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br>MIT researchers are using tricked-out model helicopters, each about the size of a seagull, to demonstrate swarming behavior in unmanned micro-air vehicles (drones). According to Aeronautics and Astronautics professor Jonathan How, they're focusing on techniques for "persistent surveillance." A group of drones could act as a distributed eye-in-the-sky for a military convoy with the vehicles taking turns landing on a truck for recharging in a docking station. <br><br> From New Scientist:<br><br> In the indoor tests, up to five radio-controlled helicopters are being used to collaboratively track small ground vehicles and land on the back of small moving platforms.<br><br> A video shows one of the vehicles landing on a moving truck, while using a camera to lock onto the target and landing pad.<br><br> In another experiment, each UAV was programmed to automatically land on a stationary recharging station when running low on battery power. Another video shows two aircraft working together to track a moving ground vehicle. The UAVs automatically take turns tracking the target at low altitude.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>Reminds me of this:<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2038/guardianqf0.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>and this:<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/854/orbhighlightsv2dj7.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Remember, they are always at least 20 years ahead. <p></p><i></i>

<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 0] --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/alien.gif ALT="0]"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>haha. <p>___________________________________________<br>"BushCo aren't incompetent...they are Complicit!" -Me<br><br>"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell<br><br>"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always." -Mahatma Gandhi</p><i></i>

<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://images.google.ca/images" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=1tal>1 tal</A> at: 9/28/06 12:15 am<br></i>

Now you're getting to the truth of it. Since the 40's, and the advent of exotic flying craft, we've been enthralled by the notion of beings from another world buzzing us in disc-shaped, and later, triangle-shaped craft. <br><br>In the early 50's, a CIA memo that was leaked years later to a Canadian named Wilbert Smith stated the disinfo possibilities in this mistaken belief in aliens. That memo, and the fact that Laurance Rockefeller funded a great deal of UFO research, should be enough to point the way to the truth. <br><br>It's a shame that such technology has never seen the light of day, and reached our hands. It sure would have benn fun. <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.petersen.org/images/Exhibitimages/Flying-Car-by-Frank-R-Paul-.jpg">www.petersen.org/images/E...-Paul-.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

Get your own <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.wirelessvideocameras.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scstore/airborne.htm?L+scstore+vzgb6008ff485448+1159482184">HERE</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->.<br><br>Though you'll need a few friends for swarming. <p></p><i></i>

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Remember they are always 20 years ahead<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I've heard its more like 50, but point taken. Cool post. <p></p><i></i>

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/17/news/story08.html">starbulletin.com/2006/08/...ory08.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Any ideas about this object spotted recently in Hawaii? <p></p><i></i>

SHIT, it looks like a fucking FLYING PIG! Is this what it means, "When pigs fly"? <p></p><i></i>

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.americanantigravity.com/">www.americanantigravity.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I want my Jetson's future that was promised me in the 60's. Give it up, dammit. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START >: --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

Deleted due to technical difficulties ;-) <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=snowlion2>snowlion2</A> at: 9/29/06 6:33 am<br></i>

I was wondering about those funny birds that always flock outside my bathroom window. <p></p><i></i>