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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thank's Sage;  I haven't seen them.  I have read, recently, an article that 
the gov't now has them so small they are disguised as seagulls, etc.  'Can 
fly and/or sit in the water and watch/record.

The really scary part is the advance of the tchnology.  I read on a teckky 
type site, that in only a few years the technology would be so cheap and work 
so well that a gov't or corporation would be able to release them , 
pre-programmed, like honeybees to fly over , send back instant pics and 
record everything, for all time. ......bobfrod


--- On Fri, 10/3/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] NC -Drones watching citizens from above
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 1:33 PM
> The ones I've seen are miniature helicopters that can
> fit 
> on top of a dining room table. They are used in Texas by 
> border patrol for camera surveilance and are radio 
> controlled, so the operator has to know something about 
> flying one.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:58:21 -0700 (PDT)
>   bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > They are unmanned, much less expensive, much less 
> >liability, much more intrusive.  There is of course, 
> >already private applications ...bobf
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Fri, 10/3/08, Jeanne Driese 
> ><jeanne13 AT earthlink.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Jeanne Driese <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>
> >> Subject: Re: [Homestead] NC -Drones watching
> citizens 
> >>from above
> >> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com,
> homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 12:55 PM
> >> Here in TN "they" have had aerial
> detection of
> >> marijuana for all the years I have lived here. 
> Last 
> >>month 
> >> one of the helicopters flew around my corner of
> the 
> >>county
> >> for over an hour!  Nothing more annoying than one
> flying
> >> low!  Wonder if the new ones are silent?
> >> Jeanne
> >> tnhillwoman
> >> North East TN zone 6
> >>   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>   From: bob ford 
> >>   To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> >>   Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 2:05 PM
> >>   Subject: [Homestead] NC -Drones watching
> citizens from
> >> above
> >> 
> >> 
> >>   " In a scene that could have been inspired
> by the
> >> movie "Minority Report," one North
> Carolina county
> >> is using a UAV (Unmanned aerial vehicle) equipped
> with
> >> low-light and infrared cameras to keep watch on
> its
> >> citizens. The aircraft has been dispatched to
> monitor
> >> gatherings of motorcycle riders at the Gaston
> County
> >> fairgrounds from just a few hundred feet in the 
> >>air--close
> >> enough to identify faces--and many more uses, such
> as 
> >>the
> >> aerial detection of marijuana fields, are planned.
> "
> >> 
> >> 
> >>  
> >>
> http://news.cnet.com/Drone-aircraft-may-prowl-U.S.-skies/2100-11746_3-6055658.html
> >> 
> >> 
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