Ah yes, the entomology of war

January 11th, 2011 by Charles Cameron

[ by Charles Cameron — in playful response to M. Fouche’s recent post on ChicagoBoyz, Butterfly Effect ]

Links: Chaos theory – Nanoscience

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  1. Lexington Green:

    January 12th, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    Swarms of lab-grown wasps, with embedded nanotech sensors, with face recognition software and with nerve gas in their specially re-engineered poison sacks going after America’s enemies.  That would be more the like entomolgy of war I want to see.  

  2. zen:

    January 12th, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    Blogs need a "Like this" button

  3. Charles Cameron:

    January 12th, 2011 at 6:17 pm

    A "like this" button for blogs seems a lot closer to realization than Lex’s wasps do — and I admit, I take some comfort from that thought.
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    But then, I’m a bit of a closet Mennonite, eh?

  4. zen:

    January 12th, 2011 at 7:10 pm

    Much like the Amish, but with an ISP 🙂

  5. J. Scott:

    January 12th, 2011 at 10:27 pm

    Lex forgot the laser beams on the wasps:)) I "like" it!

  6. Lexington Green:

    January 12th, 2011 at 10:33 pm

    We don’t need no damn laser beams on the wasps!  They get a confirmation via the face recognition software, then go right onto the target and put a neurotoxin on him.  Simple.  

  7. J. Scott:

    January 12th, 2011 at 11:40 pm

    Too simple—the wasps need a back-up weapon in case they use up all the neurotoxin…:))

  8. Lexington Green:

    January 13th, 2011 at 12:14 am

    If the wasps don’t work, we nuke the entire site from orbit.  It’s the only way to be sure.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q

  9. Joseph Fouche:

    January 13th, 2011 at 12:44 am

    The advantage of altered wasps is economies of scale. You can win strategic advantage in war purely through the attrition potential of such economies of scale. If you attack an individual target with enough wasps you can simply cook them in a wasp oven made from a massive wasp swarm. Not as elegant as the Russian solution, which is to surreptitiously cook people from the inside but good enough.

  10. Charles Cameron:

    January 13th, 2011 at 6:40 am

    Zen:
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    Much like the Amish, but with an ISP.
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    But see  also Howard Rheingold, "Look Who’s Talking" in Wired 7.01, Jan 1999: "The Amish are famous for shunning technology. But their secret love affair with the cell phone is causing an uproar."
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    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/amish.html.
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    < grin >