Isreal Creats Robots of death

[Shaun]

http://reports.discoverychannel.ca/s...iscoveryReport

Israel creates robotic assassin-hornet
Updated Fri. Nov. 17 2006 11:56 AM ET

Amy Bonin , DiscoveryChannel.ca

Scientists in Jerusalem have created a robot the size of a hornet that is able to chase, photograph, and potentially kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported today.

According to Reuters, the tiny-flying robot - which scientists refer to as the "bionic hornet" - is able to navigate its way through narrow streets to target enemies which are otherwise unreachable.

Scientists have also developed super gloves - which would give a person have bionic strength - and miniature sensors that can detect suicide bombers.

Their research uses nanotechnology to find creative solutions to problems the Israeli army has been unable to solve.

The 34-day war in Lebanon killed more than 1,200 people ending with a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in August.

Scientists estimated prototypes for the new weapons will be ready within three years.

All I can say is WOW! At least they wont kill over a thousand civilians like what the airstrikes didin southern Lebannon.

[Erik]

The link doesn't work.

At least they wont kill over a thousand civilians like what the airstrikes didin southern Lebannon.

Except if they make those robots in the thousands of course.

[Shaun]

Oops, fixed that.

[Bwaho]

wow, it's like something out of a movie.

[Rapax]

Interesting that Israelis have money for this. I'd expect the US to come out with stuff like that.

[Bwaho]

Interesting that Israelis have money for this. I'd expect the US to come out with stuff like that.

well Israel gets most of its military funding from the US... so in a way USA paid for this

[Siblesz]

Very sci-fi... I bet we're gonna have surreal wars in forty years time.

[Carach]

..sounds completely false.. :/

sensors to detect 'suicide bombers' - how does that work?

how does this hornet thing fly, and how does it photograph when its the size of a hornet? thecamera lens is going to be absoluetely tiny, let alone have weapons onboard to kill 'prey' heh..

super gloves..well im just not even going to go there, sounds like some batman invention..

[OriginOfSymmetry]

its a false translation of an artical in an israeli newspaper, in that artical they said that those things are only theory, and there might be prototypes in 3 years.
you can see this mismatch in the artical- at first they said those things were already created, and at the end they say that there will be prototypes in 3 years

[MaximiIian]

At least they wont kill over a thousand civilians like what the airstrikes didin southern Lebannon.

You're saying that like 1000 people is a large amount. Which it isn't.

In any case, that is a pretty nifty item.

[Shaun]

You're saying that like 1000 people is a large amount. Which it isn't.

In any case, that is a pretty nifty item.

1000 innocent civilian deaths is too much, dont you agree? Are you saying you dont really care about the lives of 1000 people?

[MaximiIian]

Are you saying you dont really care about the lives of 1000 people?

I didn't say that. I just said that 1000 is such a trivial amount to whine over. I mean, there's six billion people in the world. A measly 1.2 thousand isn't going to make a huge dent.

[Rapax]

Why should I? Especially such a trivial amount. I mean, there's six billion people in the world. A measly 1.2 thousand isn't going to make a huge dent.

Uhm, how many died at 9/11 and what impact did it have? Exactly. I'm afraid you still haven't learned the value that civilian casualties have in our modern world.

But yeah, I figured it was one of those "could be" articles, like bionic combat suites and "predator"-like camouflage.

[Erik]

I didn't say that. I just said that 1000 is such a trivial amount to whine over. I mean, there's six billion people in the world. A measly 1.2 thousand isn't going to make a huge dent.

I suspect your opinion will be different when it's 1000 of your own countrymen.

Lebanon is also very small, so a large percentage of it's population would have lost somebody they knew. (unlike the 9/11 attacks, how many Americans knew somebody who died there? an insignificant percentage I'm sure)

[danzig]

I suspect your opinion will be different when it's 1000 of your own countrymen.

Lebanon is also very small, so a large percentage of it's population would have lost somebody they knew. (unlike the 9/11 attacks, how many Americans knew somebody who died there? an insignificant percentage I'm sure)

Well according to his profile he is from Louisville, Kentucky so 2000+ of his own countrymen have suffered similar fate. Given the type of attack that 9/11 produced the emotional attachment to it is no less stinging even if you didnt know any personally. Lebanon has a population of what 4 million so even saying a large percentage of its population knew those people is probably a stretch but as I said that doesnt necessarily matter.

[Stalins Ghost]

I was under the impression the US were already using drones equipped with some form of projectile weapon. I'm sure I read somewhere that they'd been using them to terminate various "hostile elements". Of course, I guess the interesting thing about this one is the rather tiny size of it.

[Carach]

I was under the impression the US were already using drones equipped with some form of projectile weapon. I'm sure I read somewhere that they'd been using them to terminate various "hostile elements".

not the size of an insect.

The unmanned aircraft the US and co. use are the size of planes.

Uhm, how many died at 9/11 and what impact did it have? Exactly. I'm afraid you still haven't learned the value that civilian casualties have in our modern world.

But yeah, I figured it was one of those "could be" articles, like bionic combat suites and "predator"-like camouflage.

for a nation that has never lost so many civilians in an attack upon its soil, and it happens to be the most powerful nation on earth at this minute, its pretty major (and also because of all the morals the people have in the west, one death is too many for people that cant stomach conflict).

You get none of the above in the middle east - they arent powerful, they arent particularly moral (hence the suicide bombings and constant kidnappings, beheadings and so forth of random people that arent muslims), and they have conflict all the time.. the death toll was only important to us westerners, who, as above, believe one death is too many and make a big news story about one person collateral deaths in afghanistan or iraq.

will israel still be put down by peeps here even when they invent this suicide bomber detector and some kind of missile/artillery shell that only hurts/kills the baddies and not the civies? - id think so.

[Rapax]

You get none of the above in the middle east - they arent powerful, they arent particularly moral (hence the suicide bombings and constant kidnappings, beheadings and so forth of random people that arent muslims), and they have conflict all the time.. the death toll was only important to us westerners, who, as above, believe one death is too many and make a big news story about one person collateral deaths in afghanistan or iraq.

Really? Then you already have forgotten the daily civilian casualty count that has been conducted during the short lebanon invasion it seems. That middle eastern nations can't plunge whole regions into war because they lost 1000 civilians doesn't mean that it is an insignificant amount in the ME. Perhaps you are simply ignoring the media on this one, but in the world I live in, 1000 civilian casualties in war still count for something, if anyone's there to count that is.

[Da Skinna]

Hmm, a machine for every man, woman and child in Zion, err sorry, Palestine.

[Carach]

Hmm, a machine for every man, woman and child in Zion, err sorry, Palestine.

rofl.