{"id":34832,"date":"2011-05-01T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/can-the-u-s-military-shower-trackable-dust-onto-terrorists-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:42:55","slug":"can-the-u-s-military-shower-trackable-dust-onto-terrorists-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/can-the-u-s-military-shower-trackable-dust-onto-terrorists-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Can the U.S. Military Shower Trackable Dust Onto Terrorists? | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17366\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4bfd0_dust.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"151\" align=\"right\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">If the Air Force gets its way, it will have spying eyes hidden in the very motes on its enemies&rsquo; boots. In a wonderfully vague request this week, the Air Force called for companies to design <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2011\/04\/crop-duster-drones\/\">miniature drones capable of dusting targets with signal-emitting particles<\/a>. They say the technology (assuming it works) could be used to identify civilians or track wildlife, which is military-speak for &ldquo;we want to track and kill terrorists, not bunnies.&rdquo;<\/p><p>According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dodsbir.net\/solicitation\/sbir112\/af112.htm\">the request<\/a>, the Air Force wants a small remotely piloted aircraft, or SRPA, that would &ldquo;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dodsbir.net\/solicitation\/sbir112\/af112.htm\">unobtrusively distribute taggants onto moving targets<\/a>.&rdquo; They describe taggants as tiny electro-magnetic-emitting devices. The key part of the request is for the tracked person to not be aware that he&rsquo;s being tracked. The request makes the laughable point that a swooping SRPA or tracking-device-laden paint ball probably wouldn&rsquo;t be obtrusive enough because &ldquo;the target would obviously notice a swooping SRPA and likely feel the sting of the well-placed pellet.&rdquo; (Either that, or you&rsquo;re dealing with one very unaware terrorist.)<\/p><p>To be unobtrusive enough, the Air Force says that the drone should be able to deliver a ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8zdWxXDyFC5j90pwNhfZNyfOCRY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4bfd0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8zdWxXDyFC5j90pwNhfZNyfOCRY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4bfd0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4bfd0_rNTytGYekCE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4bfd0_nPNvCidbo64\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Air Force gets its way, it will have spying eyes hidden in the very motes on its enemies&rsquo; boots. In a wonderfully vague request this week, the Air Force called for companies to design miniature drones capable of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/can-the-u-s-military-shower-trackable-dust-onto-terrorists-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}