https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Background&feed=atom&action=history Category:Background - Revision history 2024-03-29T15:12:13Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.32.1 https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Background&diff=2451&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 01:33, 2 January 2009 2009-01-02T01:33:44Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:33, 2 January 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">9. Background, RDE, 20/X/07 </del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Weiss, Rick. &quot;Dragonflies or Little Spies? / Scientists work on robot bugs that could gather intelligence.&quot;  ''The Washington Post Weekly Edition'' 15-21 October 2007: 34.</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Notes early on that dragonflies are &quot;an ancient order of insects that even biologists concede look about as robotic as a living creature can look,&quot; and moves from there to real-world developments toward, if they have not already achieved, remote-controlled flying craft the size and general construction of insects. DARPA (the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and other &quot;U.S. government and private entities acknowledge that they are trying&quot; to deploy &quot;insect-size spy drones&quot;; approaches include &quot;inserting computer chips into moth pupae […] and hatching them into healthy 'cyborg moths'&quot;; the goal of this &quot;Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems project&quot; is &quot;to create […] camera-toting insects whose nerves have grown into their internal silicon chip so that wranglers can control their activities.&quot; Cf. blurring of organic/mechanical distinction in a general human view of insects and related genera—with dragonflies as just a particularly strong example—and very particularly in SF from H. R. Giger's Alien in Ridley Scott's ALIEN to the crab-like robots in RUNAWAY  (q.v. under Drama in ''Clockworks'' [1]) to the evil-spirit-powered &quot;clockwork spyfly&quot; in Philip Pulman's SF-inflected fantasy, ''The Golden Compass'' (1995; film version, 2007).</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Background&diff=2388&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 18:59, 21 October 2007 2007-10-21T18:59:08Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:59, 21 October 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3" >Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Weiss, Rick. &quot;Dragonflies or Little Spies? / Scientists work on robot bugs that could gather intelligence.&quot;  ''The Washington Post Weekly Edition'' 15-21 October 2007: 34.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Weiss, Rick. &quot;Dragonflies or Little Spies? / Scientists work on robot bugs that could gather intelligence.&quot;  ''The Washington Post Weekly Edition'' 15-21 October 2007: 34.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Notes early on that dragonflies are &quot;an ancient order of insects that even biologists concede look about as robotic as a living creature can look,&quot; and moves from there to real-world developments toward, if they have not already achieved, remote-controlled flying craft the size and general construction of insects. DARPA (the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and other &quot;U.S. government and private entities acknowledge that they are trying&quot; to deploy &quot;insect-size spy drones&quot;; approaches include &quot;inserting computer chips into moth pupae […] and hatching them into healthy 'cyborg moths'&quot;; the goal of this &quot;Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems project&quot; is &quot;to create […] camera-toting insects whose nerves have grown into their internal silicon chip so that wranglers can control their activities.&quot; Cf. blurring of organic/mechanical distinction in a general human view of insects and related genera—with dragonflies as just a particularly strong example—and very particularly in SF from H. R. Giger's Alien in Ridley Scott's ALIEN to the crab-like robots in RUNAWAY  (q.v. under Drama in ''Clockworks'' [1]) to the evil-spirit-powered <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">spybugs </del>in Philip Pulman's SF-inflected fantasy, ''The Golden Compass'' (1995; film version, 2007).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Notes early on that dragonflies are &quot;an ancient order of insects that even biologists concede look about as robotic as a living creature can look,&quot; and moves from there to real-world developments toward, if they have not already achieved, remote-controlled flying craft the size and general construction of insects. DARPA (the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and other &quot;U.S. government and private entities acknowledge that they are trying&quot; to deploy &quot;insect-size spy drones&quot;; approaches include &quot;inserting computer chips into moth pupae […] and hatching them into healthy 'cyborg moths'&quot;; the goal of this &quot;Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems project&quot; is &quot;to create […] camera-toting insects whose nerves have grown into their internal silicon chip so that wranglers can control their activities.&quot; Cf. blurring of organic/mechanical distinction in a general human view of insects and related genera—with dragonflies as just a particularly strong example—and very particularly in SF from H. R. Giger's Alien in Ridley Scott's ALIEN to the crab-like robots in RUNAWAY  (q.v. under Drama in ''Clockworks'' [1]) to the evil-spirit-powered <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&quot;clockwork spyfly&quot; </ins>in Philip Pulman's SF-inflected fantasy, ''The Golden Compass'' (1995; film version, 2007).</div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Background&diff=2387&oldid=prev Erlichrd: Mainstream newspaper report on robot/cyborg insect spy devices. 2007-10-21T06:17:54Z <p>Mainstream newspaper report on robot/cyborg insect spy devices.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>9. Background, RDE, 20/X/07 <br /> <br /> Weiss, Rick. &quot;Dragonflies or Little Spies? / Scientists work on robot bugs that could gather intelligence.&quot; ''The Washington Post Weekly Edition'' 15-21 October 2007: 34.<br /> <br /> Notes early on that dragonflies are &quot;an ancient order of insects that even biologists concede look about as robotic as a living creature can look,&quot; and moves from there to real-world developments toward, if they have not already achieved, remote-controlled flying craft the size and general construction of insects. DARPA (the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and other &quot;U.S. government and private entities acknowledge that they are trying&quot; to deploy &quot;insect-size spy drones&quot;; approaches include &quot;inserting computer chips into moth pupae […] and hatching them into healthy 'cyborg moths'&quot;; the goal of this &quot;Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems project&quot; is &quot;to create […] camera-toting insects whose nerves have grown into their internal silicon chip so that wranglers can control their activities.&quot; Cf. blurring of organic/mechanical distinction in a general human view of insects and related genera—with dragonflies as just a particularly strong example—and very particularly in SF from H. R. Giger's Alien in Ridley Scott's ALIEN to the crab-like robots in RUNAWAY (q.v. under Drama in ''Clockworks'' [1]) to the evil-spirit-powered spybugs in Philip Pulman's SF-inflected fantasy, ''The Golden Compass'' (1995; film version, 2007).</div> Erlichrd