BS: Soldiers Love their Robots

Subject: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots
From: Goose Gander
Date: 21 May 09 - 02:59 PM

Sez here they do . . . does anyone else find this more than a little creepy?

Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots
From: mg
Date: 21 May 09 - 06:07 PM

I don't begrudge them anything that makes them safer.

I personally talk to my robot vacuum cleaner...mg

Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 May 09 - 07:02 PM

As a former infantryman, I'll tell you: I'd MUCH MUCH MUCH rater that a few thousand dollars worth of robot got blown to hell, shot, or incinerated than me or one of my comrades.

Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots
From: bobad
Date: 21 May 09 - 07:37 PM

One day all wars will be fought by robots until the realization of the ludicrousness of it all will finally close that chapter of humanity's idiocy. We can only hope.

Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots
From: GUEST,eric the viking
Date: 21 May 09 - 07:48 PM

An automated anti-aircraft cannon's friendly fire killed nine soldiers in South Africa last year, and computer scientists speculate that as more weapons (and aircraft) are robot-controlled that we'll need to develop new definitions of war crimes.

Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots
From: GUEST,eric the viking
Date: 21 May 09 - 07:52 PM

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003965.html

sorry here's the link

Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots
From: artbrooks
Date: 21 May 09 - 09:46 PM

I'm with Rapaire.

Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 May 09 - 10:00 PM

Read a great science fiction story once about the Battle of Armageddon: the forces of good versus the literal Demons of the Powers of Darkness.

The good guys, who were robotic warriors, won even though many perished.

As a result, the robots were "raptured" and humans were left behind....