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[Varche]

Just to keep an even balance as there seems to be too many posts on Xmas and other jolly things.

Killer robots. They already exist. Machines that can be dropped into a war theatre and will continously kill automatically any targets that are programmed into them until a stop killing order is sent. Skynet but in real life. The US budget for this form of warfare is eyewatering billions.

The only reason they are not yet being used is that the lawmakers, legal boffins etc can't agree fair terms. Amazingly all war is governed by legalities. e.g. you can't use poison gas, if someone surrenders you have to take them prisoner rather than shoot them etc. I wonder if the Chinese, North Koreans etc are having these soul searching legal debates. I suspect not.

Very scary stuff which makes me glad I am of an older age.

By the way the USA officiall kill total from unmanned drones since 2007 is now over 4000 people.

Hey makes a change from tyre threads

[Sir Tigger KC]

Oh come on Varche!

If you're going to start a doom and gloom thread you have to put at least one link to an obscure website!! 

Those are the unwritten rules of 'doom and gloom type' threads! 

[Rods2]

It will soon be like the Star Trek episode where each side uses computers in a strategic warfare game of chess where we are the sacrificial pawns. 

The real worry will be when al-qaeda and other terrorist organisations have their own drones carrying out strikes. I would have thought countries like Iran and North Korea were perfectly capable of developing these or adapting many of the commercially available ones that are used by photographers etc. 

The next round of attack / defense may be drone v drone battles, where quality v production rates are a factor. 

[cam2502]

So when can we expect Arnie clones shouting "Hasta la vista"? 

[05omegav6]

What's to say that Amazon isn't an Al Qaeda cell hiding in plain sight

Although it must be said, bombing customers might be a bit counter productive...

[05omegav6]

So when can we expect Arnie clones shouting "Hasta la vista"? 

Ma?ana baby

[Rods2]

Oh come on Varche!

If you're going to start a doom and gloom thread you have to put at least one link to an obscure website!! 

Those are the unwritten rules of 'doom and gloom type' threads! 

Perhaps Lord Opti can comment on the use of drones where he has 100's patrolling his vast estates against poachers.  Or so STEMO tells me when he was paying a very late night business call to Lord Opti where he just happened to be in the area. 

[kevinp58]

I'll be back 

[Mr.OmegaMan]

What's to say that Amazon isn't an Al Qaeda cell hiding in plain sight

Although it must be said, bombing customers might be a bit counter productive...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/10487451/Amazon-drones-founder-announces-plans-for-delivery-by-airborne-drones.html

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/02/amazon-drone-delivery-jeff-bezos-hype

 

[MR MISTER]

When I (and most of you) were young, it was the a bomb that kept us awake nights. I hardly think a bunch of modified bomb disposal units will have the same fear factor.

[MR MISTER]

And, judging by Guffers car, once they were on the ground, they wouldn't have much of a range.

[dbug]

Just to keep an even balance as there seems to be too many posts on Xmas and other jolly things.

Killer robots. They already exist. Machines that can be dropped into a war theatre and will continously kill automatically any targets that are programmed into them until a stop killing order is sent. Skynet but in real life. The US budget for this form of warfare is eyewatering billions.

The only reason they are not yet being used is that the lawmakers, legal boffins etc can't agree fair terms. Amazingly all war is governed by legalities. e.g. you can't use poison gas, if someone surrenders you have to take them prisoner rather than shoot them etc. I wonder if the Chinese, North Koreans etc are having these soul searching legal debates. I suspect not.

Very scary stuff which makes me glad I am of an older age.

By the way the USA officiall kill total from unmanned drones since 2007 is now over 4000 people.

Hey makes a change from tyre threads

Winter or summer drones? 

[kevinp58]

Just to keep an even balance as there seems to be too many posts on Xmas and other jolly things.

Killer robots. They already exist. Machines that can be dropped into a war theatre and will continously kill automatically any targets that are programmed into them until a stop killing order is sent. Skynet but in real life. The US budget for this form of warfare is eyewatering billions.

The only reason they are not yet being used is that the lawmakers, legal boffins etc can't agree fair terms. Amazingly all war is governed by legalities. e.g. you can't use poison gas, if someone surrenders you have to take them prisoner rather than shoot them etc. I wonder if the Chinese, North Koreans etc are having these soul searching legal debates. I suspect not.

Very scary stuff which makes me glad I am of an older age.

By the way the USA officiall kill total from unmanned drones since 2007 is now over 4000 people.

Hey makes a change from tyre threads

Winter or summer drones? 

Off road ones 

[05omegav6]

Terminator 2 Judgement Day on Film 4 now

Not that it's much consolation, but the robots are only as bright as the people who program them

[MR MISTER]

Terminator 2 Judgement Day on Film 4 now

Not that it's much consolation, but the robots are only as bright as the people who program them

Korean/Chinese robots kill American ones all day then.