I wrote (before following "leads" from Terry's reference) > Another possiblility, assuming that space robotics is > perfected for use with Hubble etc.
Had I looked further on this authoritative site I would have found http://www.flatwoodsmonster.com/ and realized that the "authorities" have already probably reverse-engineered such a robot as far back as 1952. "One of the strange objects crash-landed on a rural hilltop in Flatwoods, West Virginia. A group of schoolboys saw the object maneuver across the sky and seemingly fall to Earth.... Soon a twelve-foot tall being [robot] from the downed craft terrified these innocent people. This being became known as �The Flatwoods Monster,� or �The Braxton County Monster.��� Whoa... why should we be worrying about globabl warming with this kind of thing going on in West-by-god Virginee....
