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Robots for Air Force Protection
Roland Piquepaille writes "During a demonstration held in San Antonio on August 6, twelve robots intended to protect bases and people were shown to Air Force security directors and to 230 other security professionals. In "Robots display force-protection prowess," Air Force Link tells us the story. "Demonstrations included one robot that crawled up walls and across ceilings, another that clambered over rocks with six rotating legs and a third that wriggled like a snake through a pipe." This summary contains more details, including photos of the "Wall Crawler" climbing a wall and of Hexapod, a robot with six rotating legs walking over a pile of rocks."
These new gadgets are all well and good, just don't let them be outside during a thunder storm.
NMG
Now we just need to get the rabbit/human hybrid to be for Air Force Protection. Then the aliens will have to give in!
So when do the bolts of lightning cause the robots to become adorible artificially intelligent friendly meddling do gooders?
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But I had to get rid of it, kept shitting on guests.
paintball
I saw a documentary on this subject back in the '80s. As I recall, the all-terrain robots were quite impressive, but subject to major, non-reversable programming glitches when subjected to large electro-magnetic fields (such as lightning strikes).
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Watch your backs, folks!
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You!!
Cats: How are you gentlemen!!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: You'll have to get through my team of Aibos first!!!
They eat old peoples' medicine for fuel. As if the prescription drug problem wasn't bad enough...
IAALS.
On August 6th, 2003 at Lackland AFB, SkyNet became self aware.
On October 7th, 2003 they elected a Terminator to lead them.
October 8th, 2003. Judgement day.
We must build and maintain those robots.
Too bad Battlebots got cancelled.
These guys could have been contenders.
I for one welcome our new robot masters.
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...you better tell arnold to put aside the elections campaign in California, because this is already starting to look like Skynet...
Robots to defend our military bases, what could possibly go wrong...
Ben Jabituya: I am standing here beside myself.
The story left out "RoboSlinky (TM)", which patrols stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a "slinkety" sound. It debuted this Spring.
So, if someone were to fight one of the robots and break it, would it be a DMCA violation as well as a terrorist act?
SAILING MISHAP
I don't think SCO is in the market for robotics...
CowsAnonymous: We're here to help moo.
Did anyone else expect the AIR FORCE to have robots that fly ? I mean, really ...
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don't kill people, ...oh wait. They do.
Never mind.
Hey, Baby, wanna go kill all the humans?
Sarge: Soldier, we've gotten orders to attack. Prepare battlefleet 5 and get ready to strike on my signal.
Soldier: Sarge, we gotta problem...
Sarge: "Problem", soldier? Whatd'ya mean "we gotta problem"?
Soldier: the bots, Sarge. They're all upgrading. Gonna take at least an hour, then we have to test them all again. Last virus was a bitch, they were all singing "My Way" a capella together...
Sarge: yeah, I heard. Those slimy bastards... it was terrible...
Soldier: anyhow, this new patch is gonna block all those music viruses.
Sarge: OK, do what you have to. But what about the enemy?
Soldier: Oh, no problem. We hit them with TZ/21, it's the virus that makes their 'bots quote random Nietsche, with Bob Hope delivery...
Sarge: poor bastards... poor bastards...
Soldier: yeah, war sucks. So, game of Doom/6?
Sarge: yeah, why not... (don VR helmets, zapping noises)
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DO NOT point a gun at them when demonstrating their effectiveness to a large group of senior executives.
Shop smart, Shop S-Mart.
I prefer this one :
Bender: "I came here with a simple dream, a dream of killing all humans."
Let's imagine a future space shuttle mission. It is streaking through the atmosphere during reentry, except now there is a dome-shaped metal head poking out a hatch on the top.
Suddenly, the heat shield tiles fail, and glowing bits of molten debris start flying off of the spacecraft. Fortunately the pilot yells "R2! The shields are breached!". The robot extends a spindly arm with a fire extenguisher on the end and sprays the damaged area. The shuttle is saved.
Actually, the majority of people struck by lightning directly survive. Typically the lightning bolt leaves a burn around the size of your fist at the entry/exit points, although it can cause a heart attack/seizure. In fact, "a full 80% of people that are hit by lightning recover", according to Toronto Hiking (here http://www.torontohiking.com/Tutorials/lightning/l ightning.html).
"Stumble before you crawl"
No true. I've got a bolt of lightning in my living room and I've managed to get Linux to run on it. You can install Linux on *anything*
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Ah, to my great regret, I did not miss Phantom Menace. Thankfully, as you have shown, I have forgotten parts of it.
I fear that the damnable tongue will be the last thing that "meesa" will forget, however.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Military guy: Will he kill me if I stop?
Ben: Who is to say?
Military guy: Will he kill me if I don't stop?
Ben: Again I am shrugging.
Number 5: Many fragments. Some large, some small.
Ya know... we got the viruses taking out computers, we got the highly specialized super-computers, and now we've got robots protecting military installations. None of that really bothered me until I realized my name was John.
"Derp de derp."