Mike Baker

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1,559 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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still didn't surprise me, only because I didn't have a really high opinion of what human nature is like, right?

So that sounds very depressing and cynical.

So no, I don't think there was anything in early days where I thought, wow, now I'm shocked at how the world works.

We can do that?

Yeah, yeah.

You know, they did actually, it's called Insectathopter.

Insectathopter.

Might even be on the internet.

That's a real thing?

Yeah, yeah.

If you look up Insectathopter, it was an early effort by S&T, by the science and technology group at the agency,

to miniaturize a sort of a monitoring device, a listening device, if you will.

And so they put it on what looks like a grasshopper or a little bug.

There it is, an insectathopter.

And it's crazy, but

The problem was, so it actually worked.

The wings worked, right?

And the whole idea was you would fly it up outside a window of whomever, a KGB office or whatever, and you'd be able to pick up transmissions.

Now, the problem was...

that it was so light that they couldn't control it in the real environment.

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