Talonz Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 The Terminator would be proud - LINK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snorom Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 The Terminator would be proud - LINK 142005[/snapback] they are also developing a radio frequency passport that will allow persons to be identified from a distance. Boeing has been developing unmanned robotic aircraft for military purposes for the last 5 or so years. When a group of government officials has all these weapons at their disposal, and no need for any human intervention besides those who are willing to watch the display screens we as a race are in deep trouble. Too much power in the hands of too few. I have to admit I am horrified with the direction of our society in what appears to be our future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 Why? Kill our enemies without putting our guys in peril. That is ideal. The cops have been using robots like these for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talonz Posted December 2, 2004 Author Share Posted December 2, 2004 Here is a small portion of the article - The thing is not shooting on its own. You've got to have these," he said, waving a set of small, silvery keys, which fit into a lock on the Talon's briefcase-sized controller. A single switch causes the robot to reboot and return to safe mode. GlobalSecurity.org's Pike isn't worried about the Talon going haywire. He's concerned about what the armed UGV represents for the future. "This opens up great vistas, some quite pleasant, others quite nightmarish. On the one hand, this could make our flesh-and-blood soldiers so hard to get to that traditional war -- a match of relatively evenly matched peers -- could become a thing of the past," he said. "But this might also rob us of our humanity. We could be the ones that wind up looking like Terminators, in the world's eyes." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 The cops have been using robots like these for years. 142162[/snapback] Smith Agent Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KurtGodel77 Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 This bodes ill for the future. Things are bad enough as it is without putting robots like this out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsGuyInMalta Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 Smith Agent Smith 142167[/snapback] It is inevitable Mr. Anderson... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 It is inevitable Mr. Anderson... 142190[/snapback] You got that right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 It is inevitable Mr. Anderson... 142190[/snapback] I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are... the cure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live&DieBillsFootball Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 They need to make these compatible with PS2 contollers. Then we send over our top gamers to frag some Iraqi asses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 I'd love to see the look on a terrorist's face as one of these things rolls toward him, guns blazing. Better yet, I'd like to be at the controls. Let's see them with their rambo-style RPGs as this machine cuts 'em to ribbons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 they are also developing a radio frequency passport that will allow persons to be identified from a distance. Boeing has been developing unmanned robotic aircraft for military purposes for the last 5 or so years. When a group of government officials has all these weapons at their disposal, and no need for any human intervention besides those who are willing to watch the display screens we as a race are in deep trouble. Too much power in the hands of too few. I have to admit I am horrified with the direction of our society in what appears to be our future. 142157[/snapback] Why? Would you rather send men into combat or machines? I'd rather send machines to fight our enemy's men. Let them bleed. We can always build more machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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