[HN Gopher] Animals in Espionage
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       Animals in Espionage
        
       Author : carlos-menezes
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-12-08 22:07 UTC (5 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.cia.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cia.gov)
        
       | chiph wrote:
       | Thankfully, the story of Acousti-Kitty being run over was a
       | poorly conceived joke.
        
       | nycdatasci wrote:
       | Amazing. They developed a dragon fly sized UAV that flew at 3
       | meters/second and could be guided by a laser in the 1970s!
        
         | gregw2 wrote:
         | Interesting! Around the same time, mention of such a dragon
         | fly-shaped/sized drone device came out in a kid's fictional
         | book I read at the time: Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy.
         | 
         | It actually envisioned the social and military implications of
         | such a device: https://medium.com/message/the-politics-of-
         | personal-drones-p...
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         | Unclear to me is whether in this case life (the CIA invention)
         | imitated art, or art imitated life (great minds run on the same
         | track); the book came out in 1974...
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal
        
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