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I wonder how long until we start seeing spy satellites being shot out of the space using lasers. https://t.co/RVwnuoAr5p
Part of me thinks that the orbital satellite thing being done to make global internet work is actually a cover for short range inter-satellite warfare.https://t.co/2TkJyf3zxq
Every public photo uploaded to Internet mined for intel by machine gods? in my future?"This model, while incredibly powerful, is still limited to the places visited by smartphone-enabled mobile-data-rich social media-posting individuals and journalists."https://t.co/bD5NOy08Av
We already have computer systems data mining social media to look for brands to better advertise to you. I can't find the thread, but this was the motivation behind google goggles fyi. This is old tech:https://t.co/Vu3auQyDNe
Face tracking throwieshttps://t.co/Lq2QlxgCwo
"We assess that Russia and China perceive a need to offset any U.S. military advantage derived from military, civil, or commercial space systems and are increasingly considering attacks against satellite systems as part of their future warfare doctrine"https://t.co/dypx5KAw5l
Laser scanning the ocean to spot submarines, whoa.https://t.co/aKsZH8T7Iq
Of course they are.https://t.co/G85aQj3PCJ
Pew pew lasers. 1997https://t.co/Y03VmTStlT
Whoops."The critics also say that since the United States is highly dependent on spy and other kinds of military craft in orbit, and other nations are less so, the country should avoid anything that might start a rush for anti-satellite weaponry."
What, you don't think they're using lasers? How else you going to shoot down a drone?https://t.co/fiaEZkirvR
Tired: nuclear cold warWired: laser hot warhttps://t.co/S5DW8G06ns
Naval doesn't follow me anymore and my account is locked.What am I channeling that he's picking up on?https://t.co/hKmKuoAE8M
Oh. The idea of a massive conglomerate buying up disribution centers and working on mass producing custom drone hardware?Work for amazon, make drones. Your nation needs you! /s 😭https://t.co/WROptRrtzi
Another comment shows a handheld artillery surveillance drone. I have this idea in one of my notebooks. On the next page is calculations of how much forces is needed to suspend a weight a "coke can" in the air for about 20 minutes to spec battery size.https://t.co/FhlP2ROlII
Things are going as I expected, even the power density of the battery.https://t.co/i3YA0HEPiT
I hate it when the universe conspires to steal my ideas sometimes.https://t.co/C0jKSNXOq4
I draw art in my notebooks.https://t.co/IaI3XxwB0i
I wanted to build a swarm of robots to bow the lawn cooperating with drones to do mapping of landscapes.Then I remembered robert knox sneden.Then realized what could be done with it.https://t.co/LPdWmJKtgn
Dancing around an idea.*War*https://t.co/BynSw45iiZ
How much does a can of coke weigh?How much battery can that hold...Is another way of saying "How much energy can I store on this fast moving autonomous vehicle".https://t.co/4Uy89hqHPe
"batteries"https://t.co/JCipyh2Hfl
How quickly do scientists and industrialists meme themselves into support a war effort? asking for a friend. https://t.co/gR2HxLrR9N
I tried to kickstart the open-source attacknid because I saw this video in 2014https://t.co/4UAkStZacu
Something about toys.https://t.co/WxW9BW1t4J
"How can we predict whether something will change?" https://t.co/JuyWkhgIHn
The other things I successfully kickstarted was a miniature drone, and a low wattage cuda core (that happened to play games)https://t.co/yWBr8m7t9e
"the media's view of drones as spybots – or worse, as targeted killing machines – has made it harder for the public to understand their social benefits." (like defending yourself from the military ones)https://t.co/qcv3FTXfee
"Soldiers attempting to negotiate the end to a long-running war discover the robots they built to assassinate enemy combatants have gained sentience and are plotting against both sides." 1995https://t.co/9BHYjsl1xi
Channeling thoughts I picked up along the way. https://t.co/O4xAsNCIyO
I collect information about robots. It doesn't matter what they do. I saw this back when I was thinking about drones and wondered how long it would take before it was miniaturized. The rest of the mini thread also shows a miniature version.https://t.co/dYc5pyZYb6
And @johnrobb's latest retweet is about drones shooting rockets.( link, in case tweet is deleted: https://t.co/7S2k9p3Fgn )https://t.co/ybCLq970fj
"can now form swarms and engage in coordinated strikes"Meh. Some of the research on swarming behavior I was following a while back was suddenly classified. I figure we've been able to do that for a while now.https://t.co/Mecc0qcqBD
That wolf-pack algo thing is being used as a means for drones to test weaknesses in enemy defenses by treating the wolf's hunting system as a constraint optimization problem - exploring optima by sacrificing drones. If they don't howl, there is no prey (value) there.
Or more specifically, they're treating swarms as a "Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem" and trying to minimize 'cost' of exploring the frontier of unexplored nodes collaboratively. There is a way to do it with ant colony algos too https://t.co/PqeVaZck6m
But what do I know about that?https://t.co/r8HzAao1qJ
"Collective Bayesian Collaborative Ratchet" is just #beehiviorism in a nutshell.I think this is how we learn.https://t.co/WHZ0wBGNMY
Its not much of a leap from that to the fear of militarizing of machine intelligence as a result of escalating technology.https://t.co/S99ekBK1LC
This whole thread is mused under the idea of "What if satellites are really just low earth orbit drones?"https://t.co/5ZPJFNw9wX
Reverse engineering is a very widely applicable skill.https://t.co/cWcMzM5BHr
I'd be building ground-to-space capable lasers too...https://t.co/vpIc6jl7W3https://t.co/NRPib1bt9i
"A dual use research of concern (DURC) refers to research in the life sciences that, while intended for public benefit, could also be repurposed to cause public harm."https://t.co/W8lDSvD2iu
"The face compilations are being driven by the race to create leading-edge facial recognition systems."https://t.co/E4vXSInGKXhttps://t.co/ALOSGZ9pzl
"In the course of answering my maelstrom of queries, Dr. Afzal eloquently conveyed how we have suddenly arrived in an era where laser weapons will become widespread across the battlefield."https://t.co/6ofZOn30u2
How do we shield ourselves from energy weapons being built to target drones, but may have other more destructive uses if targeting a civilian population?https://t.co/tLHbI04hPahttps://t.co/xFdWeVweNe
Filtering thru the fun game of "can this really cool idea I had be weaponized? and if so, who would have the technology to catalyze it?"And I find a huge paper exploring all the ideas I've had about detecting and deterring drones.https://t.co/lEnYv0sXgY
Oh good. The idea of creating buoyancy sink holes using ultrasonic interference might be possible after all!"A new South Korea study discovered sound waves could provide an effective defense against un-manned drones." https://t.co/zszbVSBa3Ohttps://t.co/cMgb18ThNU
Remember that time I figured out how to create resistant sensory arrays for space based drones or martian colonization bots and found out attack vectors and weaknesses in unhardened consumer sensory arrays?https://t.co/S32Bd5iivoNo probably not. I did that for the lawnmowers.
huh"The test made India the fourth country after the US, Russia and China to have tested an ASAT weapon. The test sparked concerns regarding the creation of space debris."https://t.co/lPL9ZLGQA0
"Curse of Knowledge"https://t.co/PQsc8WugtI
Is this an act of war? 🤓🤏🦋"As of right now, there's nothing that's a violation of international space law, but that hasn't stopped complaints from NATO members."https://t.co/cpU54Oxzhzhttps://t.co/BSNgdpFfAK https://t.co/KzyhGiLPn7
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This chip could be used for accounting for the rotation of the earth and allow for ultra-long-range sniper fire. Ballistic trajectory calculations. Rockets. Spaceships.Foucault pendulum on a chip / Pendulum Slam.https://t.co/TIu69QxI2ohttps://t.co/yRBiOO4Ioo
I can't stop crying.All the technology I was interested in while growing up — technology to help me and my family — all are dual use.I am scared about how so many ideas in my head being weaponized by others who share the same intuition and influence.https://t.co/Iygx1QtRAW
#nukemarshttps://t.co/dj3ISM2ZLf
"The Army, Navy and Marine Corps have started testing high-energy and directed lasers designed to destroy drones. The Air Force successfully tested a laser system capable of shooting down missiles, designed to eventually be used on airplanes."https://t.co/2vJi9As6Kn
you wat m8"In 1929, the German physicist Hermann Oberth developed plans for a space station from which a 100-metre-wide concave mirror could be used to reflect sunlight onto a concentrated point on the earth"https://t.co/c3ID4OoLMmhttps://t.co/LVkSQe43Vm
Stop building doomsday weapons please.https://t.co/zO0c087jdx
"Few of these ideas are new. An airborne laser was successfully tested against missiles in 2010. The Obama administration poured hundreds of millions of dollars into space sensors. The vision of orbiting lasers harks back to [...] “Star Wars”."https://t.co/KZJoTIuB0h
I'm going to be put on a watch list for trying to find out how to make my own CO2 laser.https://t.co/BomtQxug2d
*breaths in*I called them screamers.https://t.co/6Ze1624VvU
I scream, you scream, we all scream. 🍨https://t.co/CZIBJm2GRl
"Optical communications terminals that use lasers to beam data across space will be tested in upcoming experiments" https://t.co/Op0vI3vvCShttps://t.co/7qXJzFET9Fhttps://t.co/UuomFrFqlB
I've had this idea since highschool. 20 years ago.This was presented in 1981 at The Royal Institute https://t.co/xM8Jw4qusbhttps://t.co/Tu1UKPf1Ym https://t.co/772D4I02jd
You can make your own pretty easily. Most of them use the same kind of light sensor within Lego Mindstorms kit, tho the voltage sensing is more refined.https://t.co/u4OxeEhUEUI was beaming waveform signals around my house with Legos when I was 12.https://t.co/yeUiXfuHZk
I learned to code "Not Quite C" because I needed to use it to have the RCX brick send out IR pulses to the light sensor to measure distance to the stabilized inverted pendulum. Another motor controlled valves for pneumatic system to control 'hips'.BEAM robots were so cool.
You can get "sub-micron vibration measurement" if you are better at making your laser. https://t.co/M1MuZqDf4S
All the better if you understand a bit about literal quantum interference to be dangerous. https://t.co/aiPwWvxldN
We haven't even begun to tap the potential of laser based measurement devices paired up with audio.https://t.co/Ouj3Jew43p
Rocket go up. https://t.co/roXjEXiWKb
"It also includes a helpful graphic of various anti-satellite satellites that may one day exist." https://t.co/cHc6Q4rDi0 https://t.co/dNYkbaAuZG
Anti-satellite satellites exist now."But is there a real threat?"https://t.co/eUNNgc2tQ1
Cold war never ended, we've just been in a stalemate due to MAD principles.This is Ukraine Crisis II, electric boogaloo.https://t.co/GmfHlqgsKFhttps://t.co/meToQC9HRc
This stuff is scary tho.https://t.co/hG7wbN33S4
@TheoryBitcoin @balajis Nuclear balance is going away thanks to science and progress making it possible to see all the nuclear submarines that have kept us at a stalemate. Every nuclear power I could find is building lasers to shoot satellites. Cold war never ended, it just became space race.
I'd also recommend reading RAND's"Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" https://t.co/hEHrn1Ih7hTo get an idea about what the large scale political posturing / economic games are about.https://t.co/RHjx4MN0Ks
One useful lens is to look at thru fuel. This University of Chicago video (from 2015) discussing the 2014 crisis.https://t.co/dKijIvZnwP https://t.co/pqcKHdy9FO
I think about this a lot.https://t.co/VEGvIcjiH7
"it's long past time President Biden take swift and devastating action to cripple the Russian economy and impose severe irrecoverable consequences"https://t.co/dCIIiZ5OlJ
Shit like that comment by @RepStefanik is why I'm learning how to eat corpses.Economic consequences mean people starve.https://t.co/jkvy94zwaGirrecoverable.https://t.co/9HksyNGFM5
Gotta get those brownie points in against your political rivals. Look at you decisive you are! Strong leaders! Yay!This might cascade. The times is calling for allegiances.Geopolitical cancel culture.https://t.co/mMudxCU0nA
Drawing lines in the sand."statement russia"https://t.co/lQDyK68LGe
“The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." - Ambassador Koshhttps://t.co/5vkv63eAnS https://t.co/7zWvTNh4Yu
[Preference (cascade] failure.)https://t.co/9UrI0Sd3lz
Why are we so predictable?https://t.co/jrrqftACBl
"The Virtual Elite"https://t.co/Z5PBRNgJWB
[Blinded by (institutional failure] as surprise).https://t.co/YeaH8HNfmV
My what strong leaders you have.Would be a shame if someone called them out for wearing no clothes.All the better to preference cascade you with, my dear.https://t.co/BToOvO1jS9
@realjdburn Interestingly, it seems to me this very desire to protect the masses from cult-of-personality almost directly incentivize the demagogues to rise up as leaders to guide the herd away from the wolves. Seems almost self-bootstrapping when you take a long view.
Chaos reigns.https://t.co/uWjbk4Oc5uhttps://t.co/mjYkUro4gr https://t.co/UPjFNha0Ny
See's it too.https://t.co/nA8CBeDEhI
I can't reason past the impact of preference cascades so my error bars are too wide to make a reasonable bet here.That uncertainty has me feeling uneasy. https://t.co/yXuzex7JHR
I am currently more concerned about the economic impact of cyber attacks by third parties. Not being able to buy food and having no cash on hand would be a tricky thing to navigate.https://t.co/ERM6b8OACR
I saw that one of the risk factors for brain cancer is literally ionizing radiation. That stood out to me. It was not colored gold with my synesthesia. Not sure what to call the color yet.https://t.co/aiY3DuRcAK
Def see a bias in my research interests here too.https://t.co/O1Du2gtLiW
Tired: tickling the tail of a sleeping dragonWired: tickling the dragon's tailInspired: licking the cloaca of a dinosaurIre'd: realizing a DOI no longer works so I can't confirm a quote by Feynman in contextHired: Fixing wikipedia's entry on demon corehttps://t.co/L6ohE1bFCR
My thread on bears in propaganda was hinting at some of my worries. But I wasn't doing it on purpose."Been doing that more lately." => trying to learn Russian.https://t.co/m4BHKGMzS4
I know a little bit how to understand if someone is speaking Russian, even if I can't understand the actual words. I picked that up from watchin Russian cartoons and one in particular was "Vinni Pukh". https://t.co/YC94QWxoa0Been doing that more lately.https://t.co/FBcrosHmaR
I figured it was a reference to this tweet about an old theory about brain function in autism.My brain likes to rhyme things, so it was probably a mixture of anxieties over war, weakened geopolitics from the pandemic, and worries about propaganda. https://t.co/FBcrosHmaR
Still can't find details on courtship behavior of gay bears.https://t.co/8VlQsSsILv
Be curious about many things.https://t.co/Eu2ObzkkpW
"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."https://t.co/Xyt6gwZ2KL https://t.co/pFFyP1QJyt
Science: We have no idea how all of this works.Me: I'm exploring the dietary habits of gay bears and how changes in food availability and environmental factors lead to large scale behavioral changes driven by a feedback loop between genes, brain and gut.https://t.co/QYjlhxUymX https://t.co/p1dSB9UQlO
Jump around and find out.https://t.co/USDoNNfcTY https://t.co/kKnpdN6mRS
Don't even need space lasers really. Just high altitude balloons will do.https://t.co/6Q2LargrtC
I called them "the watchers"https://t.co/WwYw6FaSVL
The ideas that haunt my dreams, manifesting themselves in the real.https://t.co/x1iKdn3p6L
YEET!"Technologies currently in development include futuristic-sounding projects such as swarms of autonomous drones and a supercannon that can fire a projectile to a distance of 1,000 miles."https://t.co/wiYmvluSs4https://t.co/p1czRFZcK1
Rocket go up!https://t.co/7fhkDEIT67https://t.co/ruclEZxb8q
"Space Guns Don't Work!"List a bunch of problems that aren't problems with spin launch's idea.https://t.co/6RoOKY0Oo3
I may know a little bit about ballistics calculations.https://t.co/3PYuvbTBZM
I once knew every part of the Apollo rocket and everything there was to know about the space shuttle. I had like 3 different lego kits of it (including the technique one).https://t.co/xZ2T47nsZo
One of the nerdiest things I am jealous about is Jeff Bezos being able to get ahold of the F-1.https://t.co/IXodDxYP3X
I like that I can watch a video from 2015 and laugh at how the guy being interview describes every single thing I've had to research to fix my autoimmune disorder.https://t.co/xlYOOayzRMhttps://t.co/0hGRx4m6TU