MAV-ocalypse: Has Man Set About To Create The Abyss-mal Agents Of His Own Destruction?

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MAV-ocalypse: Has Man Set About To Create The Abyss-mal Agents Of His Own Destruction?
Down through time myriad preachers have terrified sinners with tales of demonic locusts bursting upward from out of the abyss and torturing unfortunate earthlings during a future time of great tribulation. Is that really what the prophet saw? Some scholars believe 'John the Revelator' actually beheld future technologies, and that he simply referred to them in terms he understood; i.e. a military helicopter was perceived as a giant locust whose wings sounded like "many horses running to battle" (Rev. 9:9). I couldn't help thinking of that theory recently when reading an Israeli newspaper report about Israel employing nanotechnology to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that could chase, photograph and kill its targets. The flying robot, nicknamed the "bionic hornet", would be able to navigate its way down narrow alleyways to target otherwise unreachable enemies. In the United States, similar developments has DARPA investing in Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) and mind-controlled cyborg insects as future agents of surveillance and warfare. Then there was...