The War Of The Virtual Worlds

man_ls writes "The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute is working with the U.S. Joint Forces Command to harness supercomputer power, to simulate a virtual continent for use in urban battlefield situations. The simulation, set in the year 2015, involves 100,000 entities to simulate, although the system can support more than a million."

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Re:The hard part

[syrinx]

Now the hard part is convincing everyone that real-life wars are outdated and we should start using the virtual battlefield.

Wasn't there a Star Trek episode about that? If I remember right, Kirk came and convinced them that real war is better, or something.

a more telling output

[wattersa]

$ psql world_arms;

Welcome to psql 7.3.6-RH, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

world_arms=# SELECT countries.shortform, count(wmd.serialno) as total_wmds from countries, wmd where countries.idx = wmd.owner order by total_wmds desc;

shortform | total_wmds

United States of America 354,757
Russian Federation 241,095
United Kingdom 17,120
France 2,043
China 2,021
India 346
Pakistan 299
Israel 170
...
Iraq 0

world_arms=# \q

$ mail president@whitehouse.gov -s "You're full of shit"
You lied to the American public and the world about Iraq's WMD capability to justify an invasion you had been planning since before you took office. Furthermore you seem to have no problem with our country leading the world in inventory of WMDs. I'd like to personally call you an asshole. That is all.
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