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Re: OT needed - Robot bees on Mars NASA funding a swarm of drones

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a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Robot bees on Mars NASA funding a swarm of drones to
> explore the Red Planet
> 5 Amazing Things You Can Do with Drones
>
> (Like the sensors in Spoor's "Boundary")
>
> 1:04
> /
> 1:52
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> Robot bees on Mars NASA funding a swarm of drones to explore the Red

> Planet
> The Curiosity Rover has done its share of exploring Mars by land, but
> now, NASA is looking to take to the skies above the Red Planet. A team
> of Japanese and American engineers is hoping to send a team of drones
> inspired by bees, aptly named "Marsbees."

_Martian Chronicles_ (Bradbury) calls them "golden bees." Weaponized
Martian golden bees murder more savagely than a predator drone.

    Late in the day Dr. Nlle had not put in an appearance. Ylla's
    husband did not seem overly surprised. When it was quite late
    he murmured something, went to a closet, and drew forth an
    evil weapon, a long yellowish tube ending in a bellows and a
    trigger. He turned, and upon his face was a mask, hammered
    from silver metal, expressionless, the mask that he always
    wore when he wished to hide his feelings, the mask which
    curved and hollowed so exquisitely to his thin cheeks and
    chin and brow. The mask glinted, and he held the evil
    weapon in his hands, considering it. It hummed constantly,
    an insect hum. From it hordes of golden bees could be flung
    out with a high shriek. Golden, horrid bees that stung,
    poisoned, and fell lifeless on the sand.

    That passage contains an obscure (to me) grammar rule. It looks like
it's legal for a writer to use the conjunction "and" multiple times in a
row.

Thank you,

--
Don

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OT needed - Robot bees on Mars — NASA funding a swarm of drones a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2018-04-17 08:21 -0700
  Re: OT needed - Robot bees on Mars — NASA funding a swarm of drones Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-04-17 13:24 -0700
    Re: Re: OT needed - Robot bees on Mars — NASA funding a swarm of drones Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-04-17 14:23 -0700
  Re: OT needed - Robot bees on Mars NASA funding a swarm of drones D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-04-18 00:01 +0000
    Re: OT needed - Robot bees on Mars NASA funding a swarm of drones djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-18 01:18 +0000
    Re: OT needed - Robot bees on Mars NASA funding a swarm of drones Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-04-18 13:01 -0700
  Re: OT needed - Robot bees on Mars — NASA funding a swarm of drones goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2018-04-18 05:31 +0000

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