‘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.

8 Responses to “‘Every Step With Caution Feeling’”

  1. Mr. Bingley says:

    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.

  2. Not when they worked around airplanes for 12 years.

  3. Nightfly says:

    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.

  4. 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‘…)

  5. Nightfly says:

    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!

  6. The Real JeffS says:

    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. 😉

  7. Mr. Bingley says:

    But do you really want to know?

  8. Mr. Bingley says:

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

    bwuahaha

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