DARPA Fractionated Spacecraft Program Starts

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Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @05:01PM from the better-them-than-us dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Start buying Cold War nuclear shelters and piling up the canned food, because Boeing Advanced Systems has started System F6: 'DARPA's Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange space technology program.' In other words: multiple, networked specialized spacecraft swarms that are intelligent enough to perform a single coordinated task together, like analyzing the crops or deciding to destroy humanity, Skynet-style. Actually, it could completely change satellites for the better, according to some experts."

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Obligatory... (Score:3, Funny)

by Karrde45 ( 772180 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @05:03PM (#22641930)

I for one, welcome our new free-flying fractionated overlords. Especially if they turn out looking like Summer Glau...

Ob Sesame Street (Score:5, Funny)

by southpolesammy ( 150094 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @05:04PM (#22641954) Journal

This product is brought to you by the letter 'F'.

You gotta love press releases. (Score:3, Funny)

by AndGodSed ( 968378 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @05:06PM (#22641990) Homepage Journal

If you ignore the "...Will probably change the face of sattelites for the better, if you ignore that they might decide to wipe out humanity at any given time..."

Dude, gives a whole new meaning to "the threat of hacking"

Re:oblig cliches (Score:3, Funny)

by mea37 ( 1201159 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @05:12PM (#22642070)

In soviet russia, snarky chiches post you, you insensitive clod!

Re:Obligatory... (Score:5, Funny)

by Erioll ( 229536 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @05:33PM (#22642382)

Considering they're in the sky, and they're networked, are they really just TRYING to make it obvious that it's Skynet? I swear humanity could even be TOLD that it's going to become an AI and we'd STILL fund the damned thing. ;)

Fickle Fingers of Fate (Score:5, Funny)

by omnilynx ( 961400 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @05:36PM (#22642416)

Fantastically fabricated, these fierce forebears of flowing fairy finesse fire forth fast fletchettes, forcing the faithful few to focus their fears: friend or foe? But fah, I forstall. In short, you may call them "F".

Re:Obligatory... (Score:2, Funny)

by palegray.net ( 1195047 ) writes: <philip DOT paradis AT palegray DOT net> on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @05:37PM (#22642438) Homepage Journal

You think this is bad? Just wait till the coming cataclysmic battle between F6 and the Seti@Home [berkeley.edu] distributed computing grid. The horror will be unspeakable.

FFFFFFSUIE -- what an acronym (Score:4, Funny)

by Critical Facilities ( 850111 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @05:44PM (#22642518)

DARPA's Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange space technology program.

Re:Obligatory... (Score:2, Funny)

by ElizabethGreene ( 1185405 ) writes: on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @06:02PM (#22642770)

I kind of miss the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tags..

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Obligatory... (Score:3, Funny)

Ob Sesame Street (Score:5, Funny)

You gotta love press releases. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:oblig cliches (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Obligatory... (Score:5, Funny)

Fickle Fingers of Fate (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Obligatory... (Score:2, Funny)

FFFFFFSUIE -- what an acronym (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Obligatory... (Score:2, Funny)

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