Comments on: Weak Crypto in Star Trek Beyond (SPOILERS!!) https://blog.plip.com/2016/09/03/weak-crypto-in-star-trek-beyond-spoilers/ Fri, 16 Sep 2016 03:45:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: mrjones https://blog.plip.com/2016/09/03/weak-crypto-in-star-trek-beyond-spoilers/#comment-8813 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 03:45:44 +0000 https://blog.plip.com/?p=1715#comment-8813 In reply to Wangston Philberry.

Wangston – oh, yeah! But I don’t think the drones in the movie were sentient. Or “swarm-tonomous” ;)

]]> By: Wangston Philberry https://blog.plip.com/2016/09/03/weak-crypto-in-star-trek-beyond-spoilers/#comment-8794 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 02:41:43 +0000 https://blog.plip.com/?p=1715#comment-8794 > The swam is all perfectly in sync, just as you’d expect your alien swarm army to be. This, by definition, means that they are communicating with each other in real time to coordinate complex movements in 3d space.

Birds, fish, etc. have no trouble coordinating complex movements in 3D space without radio communication (it’s maybe a passive visual communication system combined with a protocol to elect leaders)

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