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  1. 01-Feb-2012 #1
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    Guided bullets

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810107

    A self-guiding bullet that can steer itself towards its target is being developed for use by the US military.

    The bullet uses tiny fins to correct the course of its flight allowing it to hit laser-illuminated targets.

    It is designed to be capable of hitting objects at distances of about 2km (1.24 miles). Work on a prototype suggests that accuracy is best at longer ranges.

    This reminds me a bit of the 1980s scifi flick Runaway with Tom Selleck...

    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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  2. 02-Feb-2012 #2
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    Whatever happened to actually being good shots?
    Or sharks with frickin' laser beams for that matter?
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