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May 26, 2005

'Every Step With Caution Feeling'

We need a pet rock out front when Ebola comes skulking home at zero-dark-thirty.

The US military is developing miniature electronic sensors disguised as rocks that can be dropped from an aircraft and used to help detect the sound of approaching enemy combatants.

The devices, which would be no larger than a golf ball, could be ready for use in about 18 months. They use tiny silicon chips and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that is so sensitive that it can detect the sound of a human footfall at 20ft to 30ft.

Posted by tree hugging sister at May 26, 2005 05:00 PM

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it can detect the sound of a human footfall at 20ft to 30ft.

You disappoint Sis. I thought that was an ability inherent in all mothers.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 26, 2005 06:03 PM

Not when they worked around airplanes for 12 years.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at May 26, 2005 06:43 PM

Now we just need some mood-ring-based technology adapted to the battlefield... And Tesla coils that look like lava lamps! We'll have the Grooviest Army Ever.

Posted by: Nightfly at May 27, 2005 10:27 AM

Maybe dust off all that pyschic and pyramid stuff the Russians spent gazillions on. Call it 'Kreskin Kinetics Crush Kabul' or 'Yuri Gellar Bends Baghdad'.

(As long as you remember 'there is no spoon'...)

Posted by: tree hugging sister at May 27, 2005 10:43 AM

Ms. Sister, you just reminded me of a ditty I dreamed up years ago:

Who can take a blue screen
And a shiny stick
And point out all the places where the rain is coming thick
The weatherman
The weatherman can
The weatherman can,
'Cause he has pretty hair
And doesn't threaten you

Youse guys in the Northeast
You'd better stay at home
The blizzard that you're facing
Gonna swallow your car whole
Says the weatherman...

Oh, the folks in midwest towns
Are feeling kind of down
Especially the ones in trailers
The twisters are a-comin', fellers
They'll bend your house like Yuri Gellar

People on the West Coast
The smog is there to stay
Better put the ventilator on the kids today
Says the weatherman...
Just because he can
The weatherman can, but his 3:05 is up
So Johnny, back to you!

Posted by: Nightfly at May 27, 2005 12:05 PM

THS, why don't you just get a satellite relay beacon implanted in Ebola? That way, you can monitor exactly where he is at any time. ;-)

Posted by: The Real JeffS at May 28, 2005 04:49 PM

But do you really want to know?

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at June 1, 2005 08:02 AM

The twisters are a-comin', fellers
They'll bend your house like Yuri Gellar

bwuahaha

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at June 1, 2005 08:03 AM