quantum physics - miniature robots - sniper detection?

Question

After playing a multi-player fps game and getting sniped by an enemy sniper several times I got really pissed of....,

Could there be a device which detects the sniper position before he gets his first shot? I believe the radar doesn't work on a sniper, cause they track only moving targets

This might be stupid, but this is the only place to ask anything, so just read it..

could there be a device which spits out charged particles( robots) in all directions like a radar. When the particles hits and accumulate on a human(lens of eye) it lights up and sends some kind of a signal back to our device and notify about the presence of the sniper???

I know its logical, but is it practical?

Answer 1

Are you looking for something for the game, or for the real world. assuming real world we can talk about theoreticals...

The main problem with the idea is the amount of particles needed. assuming you are projecting out the particles from your current location they have to spread to cover a large area. assume you want 360deg coverage to five hundred yards range and 100ft vertical. that is almost a million sqft of coverage. then you want enough particles to collect on the sniper to be detectable. so either the detection aparatus has to be better than anything i'm familiar with, or you're talking about a very weighty system.

semi intelligent robots might work better. they would have to have a way to detect a person. IR systems and chem signature systems are doable. The real problem would be propulsion. There are some robots as small as dragonflies...

http://www.gorobotics.net/The-News/Science/Cornell-Research-into-Dragonfly-Micro%11Air-Vehicle-(MAV)/

but I'm not familiar with anything smaller. so the question is flight time. It would be conceivable to have a swarm flying out from you, move randomly or hovering over something that is detected as a target, then returning to you to charge. You would have to carry a base system to detect a gathering of drones to indicate a possible sniper.

Well, there is a daydream of an idea, needing proof of concept, but it's nice to ponder.

Answer 2

Hi Nuff; I personally feel, with absolutely no scientific proof, that each and every decision we make every day presents an opportunity for an alternate ( or parallel universe). I subscribe to the Robert A. Heinlein theory, Probably before your time but, a great fiction writer. Try "The Number Of The Beast" or "Stranger In A Strange Land"Good light fun reads. But time is a serious subject, and one I'm afraid I have very fixed notions upon. As I believe God created it,and holds it until, as you might say the time is right, and man must go forward only, living each moment to the fullest, as there is no going back. "The past is history, the future a mystery, we can only live in the now." But to punch a hole into an alternate universe, will probably happen one day, what happens next? Well that will be a whole different universe again. LOL Have fun with this one! Bob