YOU REALLY DID IT! YOU BLEW IT UP!
Posts: 5387
  • Posted On: Jan 25 2005 4:44am
One step closer to the Apocolypse, people.

http://springfield.news-leader.com/business/today/0123-Gunslingin-285627.html

Anyone think we can get Arnold to pick up a gun? We could really use him right about now.
Posts: 2462
  • Posted On: Jan 25 2005 4:52am
A SWORDS robot shoots only when its human operator presses a button after identifying a target on video shot by the robot's cameras.

These guys can't even tell an enemy combatant from an innocent civilian with their own eyes. How is forcing them to make the distinction on a tiny video screen going to help, exactly?
Posts: 4291
  • Posted On: Jan 25 2005 5:34pm
Sounds a bit risky, really. Admittedly, it would reduce soldier's exposure to fire, but that doesn't mean it'll be safer and if anything will probably scare the hell out of the Iraqis.

I mean, it'd be weird enough having foreign soldiers in your country, but when there are Robot Soldiers patrolling the streets...
Posts: 939
  • Posted On: Jan 25 2005 5:55pm
Thats fucking cool, is all i can say...

I can admit the iraqis/foreign insurgeants would be freaked out, but all the better from the western point of view.

but that doesn't mean it'll be safer


Actually, i believe that's the point...
Posts: 4195
  • Posted On: Jan 25 2005 5:56pm
*Terminator theme*
Posts: 400
  • Posted On: Jan 25 2005 6:06pm
Thats it! Thats how they can beat the insurgents.

Throw shit at them they've never seen before!
Posts: 5711
  • Posted On: Jan 25 2005 7:55pm
And there are no letters to write home if they meet their demise in battle.


That single statement speaks volumes. Scary as hell, too...
Posts: 1913
  • Posted On: Jan 25 2005 9:49pm
Woulden't it be easier for countries just to play video games against eachother instead of fighting? I mean, thats what this is a step towards...
Posts: 5711
  • Posted On: Jan 25 2005 9:56pm
The rules of reality need to be pre-established and agreed upon before the actual conflict begins. This rules out cries of "hey, you cheated" after the fact.

I like the idea to be half way there, and mostly way out there. Wars should be faught in space, or on very tall mountains... by robots. Galactic Pong for the Middle East!
Posts: 1913
  • Posted On: Jan 25 2005 9:58pm
Exactly.