In the 1970s, the CIA created a robot dragonfly (2020)(popularmechanics.com)
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In the 1970s, the CIA created a robot dragonfly (2020)
https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/a30795266/cia-robot-dragonfly/
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You obviously didn’t read the article and just wrote this comment on looking at the headline and picture. The circling the room twice is referring to an actual dragon fly. Also, it’s not ICE but fluidic motors driven by lithium nitrate crystals.
There’s also cover how it is very hard to control and how they do it manually with IR lasers. There’s even a video at the end of the prototype flying.
There’s also cover how it is very hard to control and how they do it manually with IR lasers. There’s even a video at the end of the prototype flying.
Right around the same time, the children's book "Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy" was published, which described a very similar technology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn,_Invisible_Boy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn,_Invisible_Boy
Donny Dunn is a character in netflix series Baby Reinder, wonder if that is related.
The Danny Dunn books were immensely enjoyable
Loved that book as a child.
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It always reads like someone's pipe dream that never really happened, even the anecdote about throwing it into the air, it flying 2 laps of the room and landing on a desk, how? The CIA didn't have access to microelectronics beyond what is known about, there's no way it had any autonomy, and the hinted-at optical remote control would require microelectronics that again is too big for a realistic size.
I suspect it's possible someone built a 'prototype' that was maybe a metre long or so, but that's a long way from the covert device we're asked to believe was made, if never deployed.
I have similar doubts about the anecdote of their 'brain controlled cat' snooping device that has often been written about from the same era, no evidence of the level of brain interface technology that would be required has ever been demonstrated from that timeframe.