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Over recent years, more than 30 Chinese military and government agencies have been reportedly using drones made to look like birds to surveil China's citizens in at least five provinces, according to the South China Morning Post Sunday.
The program is reportedly codenamed "Dove" and run by Song Bifeng, a professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an. Song was formerly a senior scientist on the Chengdu J-20, Asia's first fifth-generation stealth fighter jet, according to the Post.
The bird-like drones mimic the flapping wings of a real bird using a pair of crank-rockers driven by an electric motor. Each drone has a high-definition camera, GPS antenna, flight control system and data link with satellite communication capability, according to the Post.
While the "scale is still small", according to Yang Wenqing, a member of Song's team in a comment to the Post, the researchers "believe the technology has good potential for large-scale use in the future ... it has some unique advantages to meet the demand for drones in the military and civilian sectors."
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:03PM (21 children)
So many bad guys to hate on. Syria, Russia, China, Mexico, Canada. The list is endless. It must be terrible seeing the entire world as your enemies and being scared all the time.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:07PM (4 children)
It must be blissful being as ignorant as you are.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:11PM (1 child)
Maybe the problem is the ignorance, and the belief in the scaremongering propaganda. A bit less ignorance helps to see the realities of other people.
Something about the Russians loving their children too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @02:28AM
Did you just quote a Sting lyric? FFS, just stop that before we end up with another Phill Collins album.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday June 27 2018, @12:02AM (1 child)
Must be confusing hearing that whoooshing sound go over your head all day long.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @02:30AM
Not confusing. I know the whoosh is the sound of the faux bird drones.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:40PM (1 child)
You know those poor, tired immigrants dragging their kids in tow trying to escape hellholes on the other side of the world? THEY ARE COMING TO AMERICA TO RAPE YOU!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:09AM
Sounds like my social life is finally on the upswing. Now, if you'll excuse me, I should probably take a shower before my "date" gets here.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:44PM (1 child)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Tuesday June 26 2018, @11:51PM
Nope if helps confirm a few more elements from the list: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/ [nybooks.com]
(note the date of the piece)
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:49PM (6 children)
What did Canada ever do to you? Wait, what do they do other than provide some really nice Maple Syrup?
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday June 26 2018, @11:03PM (2 children)
Celine Dion.
Bryan Adams.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @12:54AM
Ted Cruz.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:16PM
Ahh.., they're responsible for the trauma I received from having to listen to Celine Dion's never ending Titanic song.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday June 26 2018, @11:55PM (2 children)
They burned down our White House!!!!
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday June 27 2018, @01:11AM (1 child)
Not yet. :-))
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2, Informative) by oldmac31310 on Wednesday June 27 2018, @09:47PM
But they did. And finished off the president's dinner.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @11:38PM (4 children)
Moral relativism, the last refuge of the immoral.
I rest my case
(Score: 3, Touché) by bob_super on Wednesday June 27 2018, @12:19AM (2 children)
> China - Regime with a terrible human rights record, currency manipulator that has robbed western wealth by undercutting workers rights.
While that quote could easily apply to the US, let's focus on the word "robbed".
I totally remember Chinese people forcing Western CEOs to outsource for cheap labor and access to the big market. What was even more a hoot was how Chinese Navy ships forced dockers to unload containers of cheap crap to take all the space on Western shelves and displace the local goods. It will be left to historians to try to put into words how strongly the extra cash disgusted the shop owners.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @08:31AM (1 child)
Interesting but you're still onboard for solving the Justin situation and nuking Canada?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday June 27 2018, @04:40PM
Well, last I heard, one fo the Justins lived in Calabasas, CA, so you'd have to nuke L.A.
Which sounds like a good proposition.
(Score: 1) by oldmac31310 on Wednesday June 27 2018, @09:50PM
Both Canada and the US had secret invasion plans (i.e. each to invade the other) as recently as the 1930s. Look it up.