The Geeks af War: The Secretive Labs and Brilliant Minds by John Edwards

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Книга рассказывает о всевозможных новейших военных технологиях, которые сейчас разрабатываються в научных лабораториях США.
«Wars are fought at the battlefield, however the applied sciences that permit twenty first century struggle are constructed in examine laboratories. in the partitions of company, govt, and educational labs, researchers are probing the perimeters of technological know-how to discover applied sciences that might make war extra effective - and extra lethal. This booklet appears on the humans behind the scenes, and on the subsequent new release of tactical, details, verbal exchange, vehicular, organic, and cryptographic platforms. that includes in-depth interviews with the undertaking administrators and scientists appearing this groundbreaking learn, «The Geeks of conflict» additionally examines their clinical, political, patriotic, and monetary explanations, in addition to the results those applied sciences could have for the long run. featuring the perspectives of various revered army, company, and know-how analysts, «The Geeks of struggle» takes readers within Americas major army know-how examine amenities - exploring a clandestine international that few humans ever see.»

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We use the information from experiments to test hypotheses on spatial memory. We’re more interested in the social systems among these animals. But we need this basic capability to track monkeys in 3D. ” Ultimately, Balch and his colleagues in the Georgia Tech College of Computing’s “Borg Lab”—named after the Borg of “Star Trek” fame—want to use this animal behavior information to design robots that work effectively with people in dynamic, noisy, and unknown environments such as those faced by military units.

Although similar devices, called photon sieves, have been around since 2001, they are typically used for X-rays or other electromagnetic radiation outside the visible light spectrum. The UF team is the first to develop photon sieves for visible and longer-wavelength light, including infrared light, Holloway reports. qxd 3/23/05 4:08 PM Page 26 26 JOHN EDWARDS vision systems, which sometimes use infrared light. Art Hebard, a UF physicist and member of the project team, says that although the holes help sharpen the focus of the light, they also significantly reduce the amount of light that gets through the metal plate, which can degrade sensitivity.

Delivery system technology has also moved forward: Human arms, slingshots, and catapults have been replaced by guns, cannons, rockets, airplanes, and dozens of other systems. qxd 3/23/05 4:08 PM Page 12 12 JOHN EDWARDS When will it all end? Probably never. Unless we annihilate ourselves (unlikely) or find a way to live in universal peace (even more unlikely), people will keep looking for better, faster, cheaper, and easier ways to break things. It’s called progress. THE OBJECTIVE FORCE WARRIOR: HIGH-TECH SOLDIER Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator has nothing over the Objective Force Warrior (OFW).

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