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Robots poised to take over wide range of military jobs
San Diego Tribune ^ | 2-20-2017 | Carl Prine

Posted on 02/21/2017 7:27:06 AM PST by plain talk

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To: central_va
Robo car + HE = perfect terrorist bomb.

True, but will the true believers give up their trip to paradise and all those virgins to a robot or driverless vehicle?

21 posted on 02/21/2017 8:16:20 AM PST by Will88
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To: Will88

I agree with you...driverless vehicles to me are a joke...or diversion.


22 posted on 02/21/2017 8:28:00 AM PST by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Also true of Dresden as I understand...


23 posted on 02/21/2017 8:45:34 AM PST by reed13k
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To: Farmer Dean
Let’s get robots in direct combat roles.

What else for ya today?

24 posted on 02/21/2017 9:16:44 AM PST by Tonytitan
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To: Tonytitan
Those are good,but I want something to do door breaching and other direct combat that get the most of our people killed.
25 posted on 02/21/2017 9:21:03 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: plain talk

Yep, it never did make sense to have a Jessica Lynch driving around in a combat zone.

Automation will help to invalidate the phony excuses for having women in combat arms.


26 posted on 02/21/2017 10:50:05 AM PST by glorgau
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To: SandRat

Put Killer robots on the border wall—programed to kill all humans who try to cross—man, woman, child, dog, etc... Gort with a machine gun! Only then will the wall be uncrossible.


27 posted on 02/21/2017 11:32:10 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Will88

You raise good points. I think eventually drive-less cars will be used for everything including school buses if they still exist in that time frame. However I think that is much further off than the hype. Much much further out in time.

It’s a matter of timing. The picturephone was around in the 1960s and then it was thought it would take off but it didn’t. Now 50 years later we have it on cell phones.


28 posted on 02/21/2017 11:36:02 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

and put ZIPPO SHOTGUNS for each bo to use.


29 posted on 02/21/2017 12:34:18 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Will88
' Driverless school buses carrying forty or fifty kids?

Let the driverless car take Jack and Jill to school and pick them up in the afternoon?'

It's not like we pay top dollar to part time school bus drivers. I always found it fascinating that we pay so little to people who take care of the most precious things we have in life and trust them to do it.

30 posted on 02/21/2017 12:43:54 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: plain talk; Fantasywriter

How about micro-robots that are designed to take out a nuke plant.

We need a sci-fi writer on this one.


31 posted on 02/21/2017 1:18:41 PM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: plain talk

In many cases we might replace the drivers and add a couple of armed guards. I don’t think all these seers and futurists have really worked out how valuable cargo will be safeguarded in driverless vehicles or drones.

Online computer systems have been common since the early ‘90s and we still have not learned to adequately secure them from hackers and malware. And practically any driverless vehicle will have some central control and tracking, and therefore be hackable.


32 posted on 02/21/2017 1:52:49 PM PST by Will88
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To: Theoria
It's not like we pay top dollar to part time school bus drivers.

Yep, and some will want to switch to driverless school buses to save a little more.

33 posted on 02/21/2017 1:54:43 PM PST by Will88
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To: xzins

I love your imagination—what an idea! It sounds like a riveting Hollywood thriller, providing they would do it as entertainment and not as a political statement.


34 posted on 02/21/2017 2:31:06 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Army Air Corps; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; ...

Hi all,
will be going into surgery this morning and will be back in hopefully a few days when I’ll get back in touch. If not, then thanks for all your continuing support. I remain

Most sincerely yours.

Take care and God Bless,

Danny


35 posted on 02/22/2017 4:56:16 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2

Prayers for a good outcome and a quick recovery, Daniel.


36 posted on 02/22/2017 5:09:23 AM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Bender2

Thanks Danny and I pray God will help you through this.

Somebody should also warn the nurses about you.

Take care.


37 posted on 02/22/2017 7:17:59 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216; exit82; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; Perdogg; ...

Well, there was a problem and my surgery will be delayed a week. So, it is eat, drink, repeat until next Wednesday at 6 AM.

Take care and God Bless,

Danny


38 posted on 02/22/2017 12:54:39 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2

Still time to warn those nurses.

:)


39 posted on 02/22/2017 12:59:37 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: Bender2

OK ... you obviously don’t like me enough to tell me what’s going on ... so ... what’s going on?


40 posted on 02/22/2017 1:17:48 PM PST by knarf
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