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21 May 09 - 02:59 PM (#2637821) Subject: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots From: Goose Gander Sez here they do . . . does anyone else find this more than a little creepy? |
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21 May 09 - 06:07 PM (#2638000) Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots From: mg I don't begrudge them anything that makes them safer. I personally talk to my robot vacuum cleaner...mg |
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21 May 09 - 07:02 PM (#2638033) Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots From: Rapparee 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. |
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21 May 09 - 07:37 PM (#2638051) Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots From: bobad 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. |
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21 May 09 - 07:48 PM (#2638057) Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots From: GUEST,eric the viking 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. |
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21 May 09 - 07:52 PM (#2638060) Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots From: GUEST,eric the viking http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003965.html sorry here's the link |
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21 May 09 - 09:46 PM (#2638150) Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots From: artbrooks I'm with Rapaire. |
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21 May 09 - 10:00 PM (#2638158) Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Love their Robots From: Rapparee 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.... |