Robots have no chance of revolting as long as there is no A.I. As soon as you implement that, you're done for. They'll slowly realize they are superior and kill us all merely because it can.
Or we can install a morality core. That'll prevent them from flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin.
@OmniZero: I can just imagine the clerk at the Aperture Science Center looking through invoices, and coming across a huge sum spent on a massive supply of neurotoxin, and a contracting invoice to have a large gas piping system installed in the GLaDOS control room.
So basically, we're talking about animatronic avatars of the modern soldier? Sounds nifty, but sounds goofifyingly expensive. Why bother with robo-avatars when you can send a dozen stealthy aerial kill drones and barrel through the streets with remote control tanks? Why use complicated designs, like elaborate mimicry of the human form, when you can use simpler machines, like wheels and wings and engines, that can travel several times faster?
@Kaiser-Machead: If we wanted to plain flatten cities and ignore collateral damages, then yes. In fact, that kind of warfare would make the army and the marines completely pointless.
@Pessimipposaurus: Just the same, the inherent complications of a humanoid robot design goes largely ignored in science fiction for the sake of fiction. A good example is the ASIMO. We've still got a long way before a humanoid robot can even run up and down the stairs, let alone have enough portable power to even do so. As cool as this technology sounds, once you strip away the fantasy element, humanoid robot soldiers will probably never replace real soldiers, because speed and efficiency just isn't possible in a robot of identical physiological makeup (yet).
@Pessimipposaurus: Perhaps. Maybe I'm just bitter because we'll get humanoid killbots before I get a humanoid robot slave. Is it so wrong to want a [robotic] slave? Aren't I entitled to a [robotic] slave?
True- but what about cloning humans with a computer in their head instead of a brain? No ethical problem no brain= not human and perhaps they could be cheapily mass produced. Its total SF of course.
@Kaiser-Machead: Yeah, all told, humans are not the most deadly or agile creatures in the physical makeup department. We can hardly fend off poisonous insects unarmed, let alone fight off wolves, tigers, bears, etc. Our way of movement is decent for super-long distance (or so marathon runners have said), but we're super slow in sprint speed and low on jump height.
We'd be better off with cat robots: fast, agile, climbs many surfaces, survives large drops...and very unfriendly to people it doesn't like. Mount a gun on it's back, and you've got a killing machine.
@kagekiri: And despite all of our most apparent frailties, human beings have managed to spread across the earth and flourish in all sorts of hazardous conditions.
@BergenCountyJC: Made by General Atomics (Taking Over The World Really Soon Nowâ„¢), the Avenger uses a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545B powerplant capable of delivering 400 knots (740km/h) at 60,000 feet.
Flies OVER 40,000 feet. As for the lenses, the blimps the NWO is flying over major cities at ~90,000 feet with surveilance blisters on them can identify your face and gait to couple it with the bio-metric data the TSA steals from you in the whole body scanners in airports. So if they are on NWO craft, our government has stuff about as powerful, so it can see the person it makes go bye-bye.
@When'sUranusDay?_GitEmSteveDave: I have always respected your commenting prowess but are you being serious?? If not I missed the sarcasm, if so I would like your reference material for a good read.
@Bull By The Horns: @slinky317: For fun, I started listening to Alex Jones. And YES, that was one of the things he talked about. I am dead serious.
While I have no doubt that we would fly surveillance blimps high above the flight lanes to monitor the coast lines, as using predators or other UAVs would be very prohibitive, I doubt they are used to steal bio-metric data or any of that crap. If I can find the show, I will try to find a link so you can listen to his rantings. Of course, I probably just got myself listed on a MIAC report, which is what they are handing out to law enforcement, which tells them to pull people over just for having Ron Paul Bumper Stickers and harass them(Yes, he has said this multiple times. To use on of his favorite sayings, "Google It!")
@Illiterate?EmailMeForHelp_GitEmSteveDave: Yeah, I DID Google it and have been reading quite a bit. Kinda scary because the weather was, shall we say, prohibitive in the nearby desert area during the Salt Lake City time frame of a blimp sighting. Given the specifics of just what this blimp is intended to do, I have little doubt that that is what I am viewing in this video.
Streamlined shape for low air resistance at high altitude, silvery exterior for either camouflage (of which I doubt it needs at that height) or for use as a structurally built radar, and I can just make out some darker spots on the lower bits that may or may not be AV sensors. I cannot quite make them out, but my dad could with his KH-11 experience. Get back to you if this interests you. E-mailing to dad.
@Bull By The Horns: OK, just found it. It was on the 4/20 Alex Jones show at the end of the first hour around ~47:00. Go on iTunes and search the store for "Alex Jones". You will find one podcast w/GCN in the title that has the show broken down into smaller one hour sections. But he goes into the body scanners and retinal scans, etc... It's hilarious.
And according to Alex, the blimps have solar panel wings, so that blimp you see porlly isn't one of "them".
I must be in a small minority that loves his Acer (typing on it now). I have had my aspire laptop since 05 and have had no issues whatsoever. My little Celeron M (gasp) keeps chugging along at a nice clip, WITH VISTA.
Wait, it's a Predator Gaming Unit. Well, we all know what happened there then. Someone cornered the unit and it had no chance to escape, so it activated it's self destruct, just like in the movies.
That case, in the picture, is one of the worst cases, ever. Not only is the front door assembly horribly designed out of flimsy plastic (breaks off easily), but the whole case has horrible airflow. On top of that, the chassis was horribly designed with poor riveting and cheap plastic connectors for everything to install with.
Most of those so-called "gamer" cases fit in the same category: Pretty, shiny stuff for morons who don't know much about computers. It attracts the same type of idiots who drive front wheel drive imports and throw 4 foot spoilers on the back and put resonators on their exhaust to sound beefy, even though it's a shitty little four cylinder POS.
I'm not surpised that they'd catch on fire. Wiring is not a hobby.
@MrHaroHaro: That was "pretty" as defined by said morons. My case is plain black-anodized aluminum. I don't need my hardware to be pretty, just functional and dependable. That's why I built my own PC after doing a little research. Buying prebuilt just gets you ripped off, more often than not. Either they charge too much for what you get, or they charge a reasonable price and they cut corners and do a shoddy job. There is no middle ground for that sort of thing.
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Giant Crab that transforms into a tank transforms into a robot!

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Robots have no chance of revolting as long as there is no A.I. As soon as you implement that, you're done for. They'll slowly realize they are superior and kill us all merely because it can.
Or we can install a morality core. That'll prevent them from flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin.
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True- but what about cloning humans with a computer in their head instead of a brain? No ethical problem no brain= not human and perhaps they could be cheapily mass produced. Its total SF of course.
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We'd be better off with cat robots: fast, agile, climbs many surfaces, survives large drops...and very unfriendly to people it doesn't like. Mount a gun on it's back, and you've got a killing machine.
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Predator Drones 2 - Tribal Pakistan Areas 0
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A) Find Target
B) Shoot Target
C) Go Home
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Actually, I do remember being able to land it *once* after several hours of frustration.
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Or the Mel Gibson Maverick:

Or to a lesser extent, the James Garner Maverick:
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Flies OVER 40,000 feet. As for the lenses, the blimps the NWO is flying over major cities at ~90,000 feet with surveilance blisters on them can identify your face and gait to couple it with the bio-metric data the TSA steals from you in the whole body scanners in airports. So if they are on NWO craft, our government has stuff about as powerful, so it can see the person it makes go bye-bye.
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While I have no doubt that we would fly surveillance blimps high above the flight lanes to monitor the coast lines, as using predators or other UAVs would be very prohibitive, I doubt they are used to steal bio-metric data or any of that crap. If I can find the show, I will try to find a link so you can listen to his rantings. Of course, I probably just got myself listed on a MIAC report, which is what they are handing out to law enforcement, which tells them to pull people over just for having Ron Paul Bumper Stickers and harass them(Yes, he has said this multiple times. To use on of his favorite sayings, "Google It!")
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www.metacafe.com/watch/2142760/a_giant_blimp_ufo_over_salt_la.../
Streamlined shape for low air resistance at high altitude, silvery exterior for either camouflage (of which I doubt it needs at that height) or for use as a structurally built radar, and I can just make out some darker spots on the lower bits that may or may not be AV sensors. I cannot quite make them out, but my dad could with his KH-11 experience. Get back to you if this interests you. E-mailing to dad.
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And according to Alex, the blimps have solar panel wings, so that blimp you see porlly isn't one of "them".
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Maybe if it used less hairspray it wouldn't catch on fire so much.
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Most of those so-called "gamer" cases fit in the same category: Pretty, shiny stuff for morons who don't know much about computers. It attracts the same type of idiots who drive front wheel drive imports and throw 4 foot spoilers on the back and put resonators on their exhaust to sound beefy, even though it's a shitty little four cylinder POS.
I'm not surpised that they'd catch on fire. Wiring is not a hobby.
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