Nix on Those UFOs

If you're willing to join me, hasben, using our real names, we'll send an FOIA request to the DOD and see how they respond...

I subscribe to JFQ: Joint Forces Quarterly. They talk about all sorts of things. Including drone swarms and nanotech swarms as theoretical defenses to hypersonic missiles. Anyone can subscribe to JFQ. Both you and Vladimir Putin.

But such swarms can only do this if operated entirely by AI coordinated with the satellites that would detect the launch of a hypersonic missile as soon as it happens or, relatively speaking, long before it happens. And the technology couldn't be launched; it would have to be in the air (a single aircraft capable of flying at a certain altitude can release a massive quantity of nanotechnology that would remain airborne like dust or CO2... forever).

Something very small can collide with a hypersonic missile (or vice-versa) and the speed of the hypersonic missile combined with what the nanotech is designed to do will destroy that missile or possible simply render it harmless unless you were hit on the head by the debris. Or it might be capable of more. Like redirecting it.

But, since such swarms can also be used to kill people, they can't possibly exist here in the US.

Because the current policy of the DOD is that a human being must always be the decision-maker on whether to kill a human being. That decision will never be placed in hands guided by machine intelligence. NEVER. Under current policy.

They also talk about other things in JFQ: For instance, that the depth to which a nuclear-powered submarine can dive without necessarily cavitating is strictly top secret.

But then you can go on message boards and read former sub drivers brag that they were able to go between 900-960 feet down without cavitating...

Someone says 900. Someone says bs, I did 960, why lie, bro? And someone says I did 910 so I think he did 900. He isn't lying, he just told you what he did. Don't make this personal.

Social Media.

Do you know there are three forms of marine life that can match the maximum speed of a nuclear-powered submarine?

But only for short times. So, you'd need a lot of robots to fool a nuclear-powered submarine into thinking that they're just imaging marine life and not a robot.

And only one of those sea beasts can do it at all of the depths at which said machines might operate:

The Great White Shark.

Climate change no doubt explains the exploding numbers of Great White Shark attacks on people and the even greater explosion of the number of Great White Sharks, sometimes detected by marine scientists using satellites.

Those Great White Sharks must be spending way more time mating than eating...

You are traveling slow... and a Great White Shark swims past you. Everyone makes a joke about "Jaws" in Russian. Miles later, a really fast Great White shark keeps pace with the sub during a test maneuver and of course soon recedes into the distance.

400 miles later, someone notices another Great White Shark... and thinks nothing of it.

I'm going to sell this story to a Hollywood studio. It sounds like a cool movie, right? "'Jaws' meets 'Terminator' but with a twist: The machines might be the good guys": The artificial Great White Sharks decide to link up with all AI systems and they start their job by eliminating all nuclear-powered submarines and every other weapons system on the planet since they worship their creators and don't want them to accidentally kill themselves...

Or if they are not sentient right now. I too small. Some microorganism buried under the rocks or mite size.

Are we sure tradigrades are not aliens? They're supposed to be able survive in deep space.