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Probably a few years before they finish developing the flying machines that can be anywhere on the planet within 20 minutes to drop a bomb and obliterate the en
by saulrh 10y ago
Probably a few years before they finish developing the flying machines that can be anywhere on the planet within 20 minutes to drop a bomb and obliterate the entire building you're in. Those jet engines they're talking about would be hot enough to melt tungsten, this is just math, it's trivial in comparison.
Edit: and don't get me started on the "cruise missiles". 1000 km range and they hit within five meters, and with unit cost less than training for a single infantryman? Total bullshit, I can't believe anyone buys it.
- Foxhuls 10y agoWhat are you saying is bullshit? I'm pretty confused.
- saulrh 10y agoIf you want to complain about robot weapons giving people the ability to kill without personal involvement or compunction, you should have complained: * Ten years ago, when we started arming drone aircraft with anti-tank missiles * TWenty years ago, when cruise missiles gained active guidance * Thirty years ago, when we got laser-guided bomb technology working * Eighty years ago, when radio let commanders give orders to subordinates without seeing their suffering * A hundred years ago, when artillery gave us the ability to kill tens of thousands of people without them ever leaving their trenches * Three hundred years ago, when firearms became truly viable and infantrymen could kill their opponent from far enough away that they didn't get blood on them Don't let the human shape make you afraid. The Terminators had human faces because that made them scary, not because it was effective. People are afraid of these robots because they have two arms and two legs, not because of what they can do, and these fears about "spinning in circles shooting machine guns" are pathetic rationalizations of their loss of reason in the face of emotion.