From: spike66 (spike66@ATTBI.com)
Date: Sat Mar 16 2002 - 16:30:36 MST
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>butler@comp-lib.org wrote:
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>>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50483,00.html
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>>Point-'n'-Shoot Sound Makes Waves
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What I want is the opposite. I want to have a pair of microphones
that can pinpoint the direction of a sound. Perhaps the technology
is adaptable.
What I have in mind is a new sport, related to hunting. Currently
hunting is not even what I would call a sport, since there is no way
the hunter can lose. The hunter can win: the prey loses its life. If
the hunter misses and the game escapes, one would have to call it
a draw, for neither "competitor" has gained or lost.
Another drawback to the current hunting "sport" is that we need to
pay all these game wardens to ensure the animals have a chance.
These require a bureaucracy and cost tax money, most of which
is paid by those who do not hunt.
Suppose instead we released into the wild a number of game
animals that could shoot back? Remember that robo-lamb idea?
What if we made a robo-deer with a reverse point-n-shoot
device that could react to the sound of gunshots, estimate the
position of the shooter and return fire? Would not that be a bit
more sporting? Would not that add a whole new dimension to
the "sport" of hunting? Would that not add a certain "excitement"
and "thrill" to hunting? That is an activity I would be willing to
call a "sport".
We know that some unsporting individuals sneak right up on
the prey and fire from short range. Such a device would
surely keep the hunters back at a sporting couple hundred meters,
for he would not want to take return fire at close range.
Game wardens have trouble with drunken proles firing at game
from the road. A robo-deer would discourage this by putting
holes in the side of Billy Bob's pickup truck, thus reducing the
need for expensive state employees.
Now of course, there is some risk that hunters involved in such
sport might get injured or seriously killed. But this might actually
increase the appeal of the game, for most popular sports involve
some form of danger. If some wimpy hunter is too afraid to
take a little return fire, he is free to use a safer and quieter
alternative such as bow and arrow, which really does give
the prey a fighting chance.
We could further reduce the temptation of illegal forms
of hunting by giving illegal game more dissuasive weaponry.
For instance, a robotic 4-point buck would be given a 30-30,
whereas a mechanical doe would have a magnum .30-06
with enhanced accuracy in the aiming software. A fawn
could be sent out packing Mr. Twelve Gage and his nephew
Buckshot. This technology could give an entirely new
meaning to the term Point-n-Shoot, as well as the name
BAMbi.
spike
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