Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville
As the bee population in the United States continues to decline, some scientists are working on a backup option which many people are calling the Robobee.
A recent announcement coming out of the journal Chem, in an article by Eijiro Miyako, a chemist that the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, involves the combination of a drone and a gel to create a robot version of the endangered pollinators.
Miyako and his team used a four-propeller drone to which they attached horse hairs in order to mimic the fuzzy body of a bee. They coated the horse hairs with the gel so that pollen would stick to the horse hairs which would then be carried from one plant to another.
Miyako said he doesn’t believe that the drones would replace bees but that it could help bees with their pollinating duties. He said that the drones will need to become smarter, more energy efficient and have better maneuverability as well as better GPS and artificial intelligence before they can be realistically used.
While working on a project designed to pick up the slack of a declining bee population is obviously not a bad thing, it would be much more prudent for the U.S. Government to immediately investigate and act on what exactly is causing the population to decline to begin with.
Of course, this would involve cracking down on Big Ag and toxic pesticides that are overwhelmingly responsible for such a steep decline. Unfortunately, the U.S. Government seems to be moving in the opposite direction with the Trump Administration having halted the addition of the rusty patched bumble bee to the endangered species list.
While it is of course a good idea to prepare for the worst, a world that depends on vulnerable technology to do the work of what once was simply done as an act of nature is a frightening one indeed. Most people would not want to see a world of tiny drones buzzing about fields and gardens instead of bees, but it seems that is the direction in which the world is heading.
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Brandon Turbeville – article archive here – is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies,Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,and The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President. Turbeville has published over 950 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.
Could stun (or kill) MonSatan and their chemicals that are directly responsible for killing bees en masse.
Just like Big Pharma: treat the symptoms ignore a cure.
Creating “robobees” will be a VERY tough nut to crack. Anything that small is going to be very challenged with respect to communication range, battery life, and on-board computing power.
Even if they eventually succeed, I wonder if the geniuses working on this project have ever stopped to consider what environmental effects might result from releasing a bunch of tiny machines into the ecosystem. What if birds mistake them for insect prey and keep trying to eat them? What if the activities of other insects are disturbed by the artificial insects?
Of course this sort of stupidity always has the military (DARPA) behind it. Because, you know, “defending our freedoms.” They think it will give them an advantage in spying on Americans at home and whomever the enemy du jour happens to be overseas. What they fail to consider is that any technology developed in the US will eventually be adopted by foreign military forces and, in many cases, by Americans here at home (e.g., plenty of Americans know how to build mini-UAVs, even if they couldn’t simply buy them off the shelf). So then they’ll have to come up with countermeasures.
With the ruthless efficiency of four head rotors, we’ll soon chop, grind and puree all the remaining bees right at the flower!
Warning: honey pooped out by bee drones has been shown to cause cancer in the state of California.
Maybe humans aren’t nearly as clever as they all seem to think.