Hi Philip,
Funnily enough, this type of paranoia does have a bit of grounding in fact. There is research being carried out in the USA, Europe, and no doubt elsewhere in the world. which could make anyone a bit paranoid. Remote control of insects has been achieved by several researchers. It won’t be long before the organisms are cranked up in size and the “on- board” technology is rapidly shrinking (and that is not taking into account any future nano-tech shrinkage) and if you get the remote control systems able to control animals such as birds, interesting possibilities arise. A nice big raptor would make a good remote control command and control base.
But that would be improbable, wouldn’t it?
But then, we now have the American “tooth” spy, the Iranians have just caught http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12128055 Hope she isn’t the tooth-fairy.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 07/01/2011, at 4:42 PM, Philip Veerman wrote:
Hi Carl,
Your concern is not isolated. There is a another story that I have been following on the Africa birds email line. A remarkable story about an almost unbeleivable success in recovering a tracker from a Lesser Spotted Eagle from a police station in Nigeria. The last comment from someone called Phil, that coincidentally came in today, contains the same fear. I will copy it into here. I have edited out bits to make it shorter…….
Hi Andy,
Good to hear that you were able to recover the transmitter. I hope that there were not too many problems as invariably the Nigerians think that the birds are being used to spy on the country!!
Regards,
Phil
