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US Military Builds MMO Earth Simulator

Posted by michael on from the one-is-not-enough dept.

transient writes "BBC reports that the US military is creating a second Earth with help from There. At the moment, only Kuwait City has been modeled, but the ultimate goal is to model the entire Earth using existing terrain data and a super-accurate physics model. While combat will be part of the game, 'the emphasis in the artificial Earth will be on human interaction rather than conflicts involving lots of military hardware.'"

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  1. Kuwait City by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gee, I wonder why the modeled Kuwait City first...

    (Answer: $$$$$$$$$$$$$)

  2. Proof at last! by ParadoxicalPostulate · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We have found proof at last that the United States military is merely a front for the diabolical operations of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings, which manifest themselves in our reality in the form of seemingly innocent mice.

    I suggest we sabotage this operation by crash landing Darl, Bill, and Dubya on this "Earth" thereby insuring that the indigenous human population will commit hari-kari.

  3. Re:Psychological impact by Greger47 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm sure that's deliberate.

    It's much easier to get your troops to take part in the nastiness of war if they are trained to think it's all a game...

    /greger>

  4. Re:Choose your weapon... by BillFarber · · Score: 5, Flamebait
    As somebody who has worked in the Pentagon and with the policy makers (though not one myself), here is a big FUCK YOU to you and your total lack of knowledge as well as to the mods who gave you an insightful. I was in that building during the Clinton admin and the current Bush admin, and it is FULL of people doing their absolute best to protect you and the United States no matter who is in the White House. You may disagree with the admin, or the way the people in the Pentagon do things, but 99% have the best interests of the U.S. in mind.

    How dare you sit at your keyboard and accuse them of being "shadow employees of weapons dealers".

    I say again, FUCK YOU

  5. Re:More money down the drain? by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The money that Bush intends to spend on getting to Mars, could educate, feed, and clothe every single person on the planet.
    Next time vote for a president who's campagne is paid by the school, food and clothing industry.
  6. You are a God-damned motherfucking liar. by ccmay · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Al Qaeda is not fighting to put sharia in place, they are fighting to "liberate" oppressed Muslims that the US has been hurting for years.

    Bin Laden et al., as is well known, have made it clear that jihad will continue until the entire world lives under an Islamic Caliphate enforcing Taliban-style Sharia law.

    I say we take them at their word, and kill anybody who advocates Sharia, anywhere in the world. We need to treat the Wahhabbis as the Romans treated Carthage.

    I want every Wahhabbi imam in the world to live in fear that the CIA will cut his throat in the dark of night. I want the corpses of these Wahhabbi cockroaches to choke the Nile, and the Tigris, and the Rhine and Thames for that matter. We kill them now, or they will kill us later. There is no middle ground.

    -ccm

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    Too much Law; not enough Order.