Killer robots may be "shape-shifters" Scientists develop shape-shifting 'skin' that would give robots the ultimate camouflage. Humans might think that we have a pretty good handle on camouflage, but in the grand scheme of things we're really just amateurs. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/10/13/scientists-develop-shape-shifting-skin-that-would-give-robots-ultimate-camouflage.html [ Its only a matter of time before robots are used on the battlefield. After all you can't kill a machine, only damage it bad enough that it is useless. It can be used however against human beings. I'm sure the military is interested in robots that can camouflage themselves by shape-shifting such as Octopuses and Cuttlefish. I know the Russians have developed a human-like robot that is armed with a gun. I wonder if there has been any international effort to ban these things before they are put into use?] Russian killer robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTPIED6jUdU -------------------------------------------------------------- "libido sciendi"..... the passion to know.
Killer robots are going to follow you into the woods and off you. You'll never see it coming, the robot will look like a log.
Agreed. Shielding the critical parts of their circuitry, just like we do our other war machines, would protect them.
Yes and we would come closer to hardening combat robots than our own electrical infastructure. LOL We are just one Carrington event away from a stone age lasting for years. Or so some of the experts tell us. We always wait until it is too late to address such things.
That isn't what I heard. Only the military is, their communications and such. But the general grid isn't. There has been an effort to get congress to give up the money to do it, and are being lobbied as we speak. But I heard this on Coast to Coast. LOL Noory has been talking about it for the last few years. But I am no expert on it. Just repeating what I have heard.
After a little research, I think you are more correct than I am as noted by the dated (2014) links below. OTOH, while I certainly advocate protecting the electric grid and hardening key public facilities, let's not forget that the doomsayers also predicted about Y2K. https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterd...make-911-look-trivial-someday/2/#7d8b0f7177ae http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/countering-an-emp-attack-on-america/ https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7214/electro-magnetic-pulse-emp
you can bet that there are a large number of nuclear missiles tasked with thermospheric detonations on both sides. A non nuclear EMP weapon would be a global game changer. Massively crippling without killing or destroying non electrical infrastructure.
While it wouldn't kill like a nuke, it would certainly kill due to failures of hospital systems, air conditioning, any airliners flying, etc. plus it would still be considered an act of war and would certainly be retaliated against.
Yeah, I remember Y2K and the dooms day folks. Yet an EMS from our star is said not to be a question of if, but of when. For we get them in cycles all of the time. It would just take one equal to the one we had in the mid 1800s to fry an unprotected grid, and even our computer assisted cars, not to mention aircraft. Just frying our transformers would be really bad, since we get them from china, and never have enough of a surplus to replace every transformer in the US in a timely manner. All resupply of food is done by computers, where in the old days a salesmen would come and personally take your order, written on paper. We don't have a backup system in the private sector for such elementary needs as food and water. While I have a well, I could use, most people no longer have that option. Most people no longer know how to garden, and not that many even have the land to grow one. Of course, if people were desperate, you would have to literally guard you garden with guns, when people started to starve. I hope I never live to see such a thing. At least I did pass on the knowledge to my kids in regards to growing your own food, and how to raise chickens for eggs. But I grew up on a farm and was taught this knowledge by hands on teaching from parents and grandparents. My oldest daughter's family grows a garden every year, since I am too old now to supply them with veggies, and they are passing this knowledge on to my grandkids.
