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Two new snippets from the war-game industry.

Air Force Eyes Purple Bacteria to Power Drones… which are according to an article over here, the only game in town when it comes to killing AQ suspects.

Apparently what they do is pay people to plant beacons outside the houses of AQ suspects (or anyone else the payees happen not to like) and in go the rockets… the beacons looking like this:

Which is fairly low-tech by the looks, and I’m guessing the “intelligence” created thereby is every bit as bad as the intelligence that got us into these wars in the first place. It’s a self-perpetuating, self-serving machine.

That machine at the top isn’t one of the drones btw. It’s a nice photo though, so there it is.

The purple bacteria look like a type of solar organic battery, which while not as efficient as silicon, costs a about a quarter as much.

“So far, the Air Force has spent $450,000 on the project, and expect to power an UAV with the mock bacterial dye within three to five years. But the cells could be used in other projects before that. The military is considering a bacteria-inspired solar “power shade” that would fit over Army tents to keep the electricity flowing inside.”