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A techno-bestiary of drones in art and war
horror cinema of the mid-twentieth century, the word ‘blob’ will conjure the eponymously titled 1958 teen film in which a human-devouring amoeba-like alien organism, which has fallen to earth in a meteorite, terrorises a small town and threatens to eventually engulf the entire planet but for the valiant efforts of two quick-thinking teenagers. 29 Eventually flash frozen and transported to the north pole, the blob is left there to hibernate for ‘as long as the arctic stays cold’ – a chillingly prescient cliff-hanger if ever there was one. But putting aside the