From: Raymond G. Van De Walker (rgvandewalker@juno.com)
Date: Sat Jun 12 1999 - 01:46:12 MDT
I want a gun that shoots ethical flechettes. That is, the gun has the
situational awareness at least of a policeman that's hiding in your
pocket or handbag. It talks to the ammunition. Of course, the gun would
talk with you.
I calculated that a human-equivalent-intelligence (HEI) would fit into
several thousand cubic microns, and with quantum intelligence, it could
run several thousand times as fast as human time. (mechanical is smaller,
but slower)
With good nanotech, we can also have lasers running off a phased-array on
a flechette, so we can get a pin-hole microarray radar that's not too
constrained by the reolution radius of its antenna.
You shoot it, and the flechettes decide what to do, and the gun is the
witness, and sends signed e-mail to the police on the wireless internet
using micropower pulse radio.
If you're a bad guy, a dumb kid, or a drunk, or tampered with the gun,
the flechettes refuse to fire. or tumble at mach 8 and self-destruct,
because they're inherently unstable.
If you're a good guy, the flechettes cause the least possible damage that
will let you get away, shoot the deer that's kicking your kid, hunt, hit
the 9 ring of the paper target, or whatever.
The magazines rebuild the flechettes from CO2 and water in the air, plus
electricity. Maybe this takes a while, if the only solar cell is the
surface of the gun. That way, in a survival situation, the gun is
self-provisioning.
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