Sep 25 2007Pentagon Funds Maple Seed Camera Project
Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon's number one supplier, is developing nano air vehicles (NAVs), that resemble the seed of a silver maple.
The single-winged device would pack a tiny two-stage rocket thruster along with telemetry, communications, navigation, imaging sensors and a power source. It is designed to carry interchangeable payload modules -- the size of an aspirin tablet. It could be used for chemical and biological detection or finding a "needle in a haystack." Released in organized swarms to fly low over a disaster area, the NAV sensors could detect human body heat and signs of breathing.
Wow, are we living in the future or what? Little flying reconnaissance seeds. You know, I went skinny dipping in the river the other day, and I was wondering where the hell all the damn maple seeds came from. Now I know. Suffice it to say the government found the penis of mass destruction they've been looking for.
Pentagon Funds Maple Seed Camera Project [therawfeed]
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Reader Comments
1. Ted - September 25, 2007 10:09 AM
Also it could be used to spread butter on tiny little crackers and cut tiny little pieces of cheese.
2. Ted - September 25, 2007 10:10 AM
PS Notice the lack of 'First' you little first posting turds.
3. nominus - September 25, 2007 10:12 AM
should have ended it with the word "penis". Kinda like when I woo some chick, and am guarunteed to get laid, but then I can't shut up. I still get laid and all, but if I didn't have these rock hard abs and pecs it would be a different story.
4. nardhammer - September 25, 2007 10:14 AM
oh yeah?!? well i am first to be fourth!!!
5. Ted - September 25, 2007 10:33 AM
Wow Nominus, you don't write for 'The Superficial' do you? You sound like 98% of the posts.
6. Dr Cox - September 25, 2007 11:21 AM
haha Ted is my hero
7. nominus - September 25, 2007 11:54 AM
Well Ted, if by "write for" you mean "have sex with", and by "The Superficial" you mean "Jenny McCarthy's mouth" then, no, I do not write for 'The Superficial'.
8. Lauren - September 25, 2007 1:04 PM
Hahaha, niiiiice......
9. Smartass - September 25, 2007 2:26 PM
Please tell us more of your penis.
I mean you have only mentioned it in two write-ups today. And can we ever get too much information about your penis. I mean really cum on. It's a technology site. If that is a euphemism for homo-erotic penis descriptions; what is? So please go on. Tell us of it texture and firmness, how you sing it little songs and knit it tight sweaters. It's your duty really.
10. Michael Brown - September 25, 2007 7:07 PM
Did anyone else notice that somehow they got "single-winged device would pack a tiny two-stage rocket thruster along with telemetry, communications, navigation" out of a molded piece of plastic? I want to work for big corporations so I can invent new fake stuff too. Penis.
11. woodhorse - September 25, 2007 7:35 PM
Thank you Fish for giving me a new reason to live. I now officially reside on Hyperion.