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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Could Be The First Drone-Proof City
http://www.businessinsider.com/drone-proof-community-shura-city-asher-j-kohn-law-student-2013-2Asher J. Kohn, a law student and conceptual artist, has come up with a novel idea.
If we built communities designed to counter surveillance and targeted drone strikes, then all the new and upcoming, super expensive drones would be worthless hunks of metal.
Kelsey Atherton of Popular Science describes "Shura City" basically as a possible end to the current, and for the foreseeable future, preferred means for often unaccountable leaders to wage war.
From PopSci:
[Shura City's] design [is] for the warfare of our time, in which the United States favors sending robots, over people, to hunt down small groups or individuals.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/drone-proof-community-shura-city-asher-j-kohn-law-student-2013-2#ixzz2K8AuaxAk
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)I'm getting so sick and tired of this mantra.
Can't speak for the poster, but I think it's just a joke. Glenn Beck has announced plans to open some sort of retreat/city/whatever modeled on his worldview.
RZM
(8,556 posts)el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)Actually if I were making drones, I'd totally want to make them like Winged Monkeys.
Bryant
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)sadalien
(62 posts)with lasers. Send a laser beam up to a drones sensor and the drone wouldn't be able to read telemetry about its location.
We will all have phasers soon..
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)A technological version of it at least. All that this needs to make it a wasteful relic is a new piece of technology that renders the countermeasures ineffective.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)With good ol' fashioned carpet bombing.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)8 foot walls, 8 foot ladders leads to 10 foot walls, 10 foot ladders leads to ......
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)and your post is bang on
Sid