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I suggest designing a submarining, video and audio equipped UAV that looks and acts like a flying fish. It could be used to investigate ports, war ships, topless beaches, etc.
Flying fish 45 second flight
http://news.bbc.co....ci/tech/7410421.stm
Flying fish 45 second flight [Sunstone, May 26 2008]
Flying Fish UAV, U Michigan, 2008
http://www.engin.um...ts/flying_fish.html
Here you go. [jutta, May 26 2008]
Floating, flying, killing UAV
http://www.95news.c...attack-drone-robot/
It floats, it flies, it eliminates enemy targets-meet the water-launched unmanned enforcer Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works [Sunstone, Jan 17 2009]
UK team builds robot fish to detect pollution
http://www.reuters....USTRE52J1RY20090320
The carp-shaped robots, costing 20,000 pounds ($29,000) apiece, mimic the movement of real fish and are equipped with chemical sensors to sniff out potentially hazardous pollutants, such as leaks from vessels or underwater pipelines [Sunstone, Mar 22 2009]
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That'd work great, except for places where flying fish are attention-grabbing oddities, and places where people expect you to halfway invent something instead of just suggesting that someone else do all the work. Spy bots that mimic animals are certainly thought of, and chances are good that somebody else will think of mimicking a flying fish. They may decide that a splashing, sparkling, zipping thing that only gets a foot above the water isn't as good as a slow, stealthy sub with a periscope, or a birdlike thing that really flies.[-] |
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[baconbrain] so you want "I suggest designing" changed to "Build" |
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No, I want "I suggest designing" changed to "An UAV could be made to mimic a flying fish if it used a little water propeller on the end of a long flex shaft." |
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That first link is cool. Every couple of seconds (every 20 yards) his tail kicks off the water surface. The fish's body is out of the water for 45 seconds... It must be good at holding it's breath. |
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