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I think these UAVs sell for as little as $16K-$27K a pop 
so just about anyone could afford to own one. I remember 
the border patrol crashed something like seven out of ten 
in a short period so that's when it gets costly. I've 
heard the military uses them to carry bombs, too. Very 
scary indeed.

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:56:57 -0700 (PDT)
 bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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