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Sinister commie robot pigeon bombs on the wing!

If there is anything more sinister than a grubby urban pigeon, it must be a grubby urban pigeon under remote control! That's right, first the testing of an anti-satellite weapon, and now we get wind of China's plans to create a devastating army of drone... ...full story at Imagethief

from Imagethief on Thu, Mar 01 2007

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28 Feb 07 visit Remote control pigeon droids of Shandong  »  Danwei According to cnnb.com.cn, scientists in Shandong have successfully implanted a microchip and radio receiver in a pigeon's brain, enabling them to instruct the pigeon by remote control to take off, fly in circles and obey other commands. The experimental...
05 Mar 08 visit China to create 10 mln jobs in cities, keeping jobless rate at 4.5% in 2008  »  People's Daily The Chinese government will work to create 10 million jobs this year and try to keep registered urban unemployment rate at around 4.5 percent, Premier Wen Jiabao said here on Wednesday. China's urban unemployment rate in the past fi ...
30 Dec 08 visit China aims to create 9 million jobs in urban areas in 2009  »  People's Daily Human Resources and Social Security Minister Yin Weimin said on Monday that China aims to create 9 million new jobs in urban districts next year. Yin said China wants to keep the registered urban unemployment rate under 4.6 percent next year. ...
23 Aug 09 visit China's urban rail transit distance hit 776 km by 2008  »  People's Daily Operation distance of China's urban rail transits totaled at 776 km by the end of 2008, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announced on Sunday. These urban rail transits, located in 10 Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai...
14 May 07 visit China's urban area reaches 32,521 kilometers  »  People's Daily In recent years, Chinese cities have expanded rapidly with their urbanization rate rising steadily over the past half century from 29.04 percent in 1995 to 41.76 percent in 2004. The urban scale has enlarged quickly in the wake of growth in urban...

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