George B
Extinct but not forgotten Staff Member
Hmmm... (rubs chin) I have seen videos of robot insects so I suppose a robot cat would not be too far fetched... and I did not even think about it before posting that. You are right. I recant my statement about past instances of robot cats not existing.
It really depends on what it is exactly that you suspect. I am not suspicious that some cats in my neighborhood are robots so to speak, because they are behaving in the natural manner that cats behave and are not a reason to be of concern, so even if they were robots, then I could care less. I think it would be kind of cool actually. What I would be suspicious of is if the behavior of these cats was malicious.
I think another thing to look at is prevalence. It is something that they are more likely to do just like you said. How many times has someone been caught using a robot cat to spy on people, versus how many times has an airplane been caught spraying people? I am sure they probably do use robot cats for special missions maybe to Egypt or something... (they love cats!) but it is more feasible and cost effective to use other types of spying on average citizens, so... Occam's razor.
When you say that there is no evidence that they are doing it, you are right, but you leave a very important point out; There also was no evidence that they were doing it at the time that they had done it either. It was done in secret, just like what could be happening right now. Because it has happened several times and is documented, it is much more suspicious than the robot cats which could be in my neighborhood, but are not documented.
The people spraying were caught years after the fact, not while they were doing it. They were not caught because of anyone doing tests or researching it... They were caught because there was too many loose ends and they could not contain the secret indefinitely.
Good logical argument . . . along with the above mentioned history are tons of research proposals, cost analysis, etc. to make one think serious consideration was give to aerosol injection and may have been implemented because of the motives to do so were so well advertised as in Global Warming and Solar Maximum . . .