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User ID: 310524 Mexico 10/10/2007 01:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I see a bird red head in Phoenix AZ. 2005 just like a bird but with robotic eyes, I tough it was a ET tech... not human but it looks we have it now. Enki was the real engineer of the human race. He was the Sumerian god of science, engineering, magic, strategy, music, and lovemaking |
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LEGION, FOR THERE ARE MANY User ID: 186213 United States 10/10/2007 04:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Saw this too and was going to post it. Quoting: Grafted Promise 310450We see dragon flies but they never fly in formation! And never have things hanging out their back ends. Wonder if the Revelation critters at Seal 7, trumpet 5 are of this sort? About a month and a half ago. I was outside in my yard working, when I noticed a strange looking dragonfly, like nothing I ever seen before. After watching it circle around, I kept noticing that there was something strange about this dragonfly. After watching it for about 5 minutes or so, I decided to get one of my digital cameras and see if I could get a shot of this thing. I shot about five shots of this dragonfly and upon further review, I noticed a black object about one-half length the size of the dragon fly ON IT`S BACK. It also looked like the dragonfly had saddles on it`s side as it flew over my head. I didn`t mention much to my associates, at the time, because I did not know what I was dealing with. I did however reach a tenative answer, based on the case facts available, that what I was observing was a mutant dragonfly or one that was diseased. But, I wondered..."What If"..........then thought nothing more of it. However, about two weeks ago and about 90 miles or so from my home, during a field study, I noticed this same type of dragonfly with the same peculiar object on its back, and with saddles. To the chase, my final answer would be, that what this dragonfly, believed to be a female, was carrying on it`s back was a dead male dragonfly that apparently died during copulation with the female and was rotting on the females back. If not that, then.........."What if"?..............LEGION |
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(OP) User ID: 291947 United States 10/11/2007 12:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i feel so horrified, i've let my innocence die, you want to know why i cant be pacified, you made me bury something, i wont be sleeping tonight it seems so clear now what i must do, you're no immortal i wont let them deify you, they view you as the new messiah, they deify you." from Disturbed "Deify", CD "10,000 Fists" |
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(OP) User ID: 291947 United States 10/11/2007 02:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Anonymous Coward 310516 here is this article. Robo-roach could betray real cockroaches 16:29 09 May 2006 NewScientist.com news service Tom Simonite An Insbot (centre) interacts with real roaches (Image: Jean-Louis Deneubourg)Tools Related Articles Robotic 'pack mule' displays stunning reflexes 03 March 2006 Creepy crawlies to explore other worlds 23 July 2005 Roaches get a robot buddy 16 July 2005 Search New Scientist Contact us Web Links Leurr Project Website Free University, Brussels Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres’s blog A matchbox-sized robot that can infiltrate a pack of cockroaches and influence their collective behaviour has been developed by European scientists. The tiny robot smells and acts just like a roach, fooling the real insects into accepting it as one of their own. Through its behaviour, the robot can persuade a group of cockroaches to venture out into the light despite their normal preference for the dark, for example. The researchers behind the robot believe it could be used to catch cockroaches and that bots designed to mimic other animals could one day work on farms controlling flocks of sheep and chickens by similar means. Cockroaches and other insects such as ants display "collective intelligence". This means that complex group behaviour emerges from simple individual action and interaction. Researchers from France, Belgium and Switzerland set out to create a robot capable of controlling a group of cockroaches by exploiting this emergent behaviour. Cockroach pheromones The researchers came up with 'Insbot', a wheeled robot about the size of a small matchbox. It contains several computer processors hooked up to a camera and an array of infrared proximity sensors that allow the bot to identify obstacles and real cockroaches. To the human eye it might not look much like an insect, but cockroach pheromones and carefully programmed behaviour are enough to convince real roaches that it is one of the gang. "If you don't put the pheromone molecules on them, the cockroaches get scared because they are afraid it is a predator," says roboticist Jean-Louis Deneubourg from the Free University in Brussels. To get the robots to behave like real insects the team developed a mathematical model of cockroach behaviour by observing real ones. Tweaking this model suggested ways that the robot infiltrator might steer the behaviour of the whole group by exploiting the creatures' tendency to follow one another. A video created by the researchers shows several Insbots travelling around a maze and interacting with cockroaches. Deneubourg's team tested the persuasive power of Insbots by putting 4 robots and 12 cockroaches in an enclosure with dark and lit-up areas. They programmed the robot to seek out real insects but also veer towards the lit area. Scared of the dark "It's important they prefer the light shelter, but not too much," Deneubourg says. "If they have too strong an attraction for the light they will go straight there and not interact with the real cockroaches." The researchers are keen to develop other robots that can socialise with animals and influence their behaviour in a similar way. They have already begun studying the group behaviour of sheep and chicken. "Chickens are a good example of a mixture of collective intelligence and leadership," Deneubourg says. "This work has useful applications for influencing animals," says Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres, who researches evolutionary artificial intelligence at Sussex University in the UK. "But what is perhaps more important is understanding how intelligence can arise from simple components." A better understanding of the rules that produce collective intelligence in cockroaches and ants could lead to innovative forms of artificial intelligence, says Izquierdo-Torres. "It would be interesting to build our own intelligent societies of animals," he says. my thought is, if they are studying chickens and sheep to mimic their behavior and infiltrate them with robots, i wonder if they study human behavior for the same reason. i feel so horrified, i've let my innocence die, you want to know why i cant be pacified, you made me bury something, i wont be sleeping tonight it seems so clear now what i must do, you're no immortal i wont let them deify you, they view you as the new messiah, they deify you." from Disturbed "Deify", CD "10,000 Fists" |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 258840 United States 10/11/2007 04:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | from OP's article, the key segment: ... They probably saw dragonflies, said Jerry Louton, an entomologist at the National Museum of Natural History. Washington is home to some large, spectacularly adorned dragonflies that "can knock your socks off," he said. At the same time, he added, some details do not make sense. Three people at the D.C. event independently described a row of spheres, the size of small berries, attached along the tails of the big dragonflies -- an accoutrement that Louton could not explain. And all reported seeing at least three maneuvering in unison. "Dragonflies never fly in a pack," he said. ... -- [link to www.washingtonpost.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 419758 United States 04/20/2008 10:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Unknowncountry dot com has an April 12 show featuring Linda Howe with some current dragonfly drone information. [link to www.unknowncountry.com] This link might take you straight to the audio file: [link to www.unknowncountry.com] Here is a website related to the topic: [link to www.crystalinks.com] |