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Comments on Surveillance By Flying Saucer
UPDATED with new sf reference and video. Very well-behaved saucer-shaped surveillance drone certainly looks more cool than other hovering drones. (Read
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| "Also check Larry Niven's "Cloak oF Anarchy" short story." (Flaminio 7/30/2009 12:45:07 AM) |
| "Flaminio, thanks. I forgot about Larry Niven's copsyes, even though I had the reference." (Bill Christensen 7/30/2009 5:46:57 AM) |
| "Don't leave out the more recent Dark Angel series starring Jessica Alba. The drones were mentioned in one episode quite heavily as they were modified to assassinate. Throughout the series though Jessica, or Max in-story, had to dodge the drones so as to not be detected. They were really well done." (Peter 7/30/2009 6:37:14 AM) |
| "Here are a couple of images from Dark Angel of the drones:
http://www.darkangelfan.com/images//screencaps/epeighteen/1180269.jpg
http://www.darkangelfan.com/images//screencaps/epeighteen/1180240.jpg" (Peter 7/30/2009 6:41:17 AM) |
| "Peter - great find! I find myself wondering if the researchers for Dark Angel had seen any of the previous versions of the Aesir flying saucer drones.
" (Bill Christensen 7/30/2009 9:10:51 AM) |
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