| We certainly learned after Hurricane Katrina how | | | | could sense even breathing. Since they weigh only 1.5 |
| difficult it was to find trapped people who had | | | | pounds, it wouldn't add a lot of weight. After |
| climbed up into their attics to get away from the | | | | someone was discovered in the initial cleanup of the |
| floodwaters in New Orleans. Today luckily we have | | | | big chunks, then the rescue teams could be called to |
| advanced systems like infrared sensors, scanners and | | | | specific locations when the robotic sensors would |
| these can be mounted on Helicopters and Unmanned | | | | give information. There wouldn't be a waste of time |
| Aerial Vehicles UAVs. But what if we took our | | | | cruising down floodwaters in small boats hoping to |
| technological know how to a higher level? | | | | find someone. It means loss of life at the end of the |
| Currently DARPA has some new radarscopes and | | | | disaster areas." |
| sensors, which can be used on robots. What if we | | | | Indeed this makes a lot of sense and it is just one |
| sent these units in immediately following a natural | | | | more way that we maybe able to assist people in |
| disaster? This topic recently came up in an online | | | | their time of need. We must leverage our advanced |
| think tank when Swift from Las Vegas stated; | | | | technologies to win the war on Natural Disasters you |
| "Yes, they could sense a human inside a building | | | | see? Consider all this in 2006. |
| through a foot of concrete and 50 feet beyond and | | | | |