Tyrone

If you are one who follows the technology of robotic aircraft then you know how much these flying units are doing to help us all. In fact the challenges of mankind are being met with the robotic tools of the future.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs are getting better every year and the sensors and cameras are getting more robust, smaller and lighter too. This means that soon they will have eyes better than Eagles and be able to send those images 100s if not 1000s of miles in a split-seconds time.

Well this is great if you are fighting terrorism, flying thru a Hurricane, monitoring volcanoes or Arctic ice. Of course that is all well and good, unfortunately the UAVs flying along the borders of our nation to watch for illegal aliens and drug dealers are spooking some nude sunbathers in their backyards.

Now they want to sue, because their privacy is being violated? Yes, now you heard it all right? But are these UAVs actually able to take a crisp digital picture of someone sunbathing nude in their backyard? Apparently so.

When I first looked into this ridiculous story, I thought someone from our think tank was pulling my leg or saw it in the National Inquirer; turns out they were right and the whole issues is going to end up in Federal Court soon.

Well, before I get all the naked women and nudist colonies in a tizzy, I thought you might like to know that the authorities have no intention on putting your toushy buns on TV. I hope this article might propel thought into 2007.

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is a guest writer for Our Spokane Magazine in Spokane, Washington