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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

I don't think they even need drones. Go to Google Earth. Their satellite 
images are amazing. I can count my cows in my pasture. And that's just 
Google, that anyone can tap into...imagine what technology the 
government has and isn't telling us about.

Lynn Wigglesworth

bob ford 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  wrote:
> 
>> From: 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  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 
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Jeanne Driese 
>>>> 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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