…now they’re going to mechanize war! 
Just like in Star Wars– war robots!
TEL AVIV, Israel – Israel is developing an army of robotic fighting machines that offers a window onto the potential future of warfare.
Sixty years of near-constant war, a low tolerance for enduring casualties in conflict, and its high-tech industry have long made Israel one of the world’s leading innovators of military robotics.
…Over 40 countries have military-robotics programs today. The U.S. and much of the rest of the world is betting big on the role of aerial drones: Even Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite guerrilla force in Lebanon, flew four Iranian-made drones against Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War.
When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, it had just a handful of drones. Today, U.S. forces have around 7,000 unmanned vehicles in the air and an additional 12,000 on the ground, used for tasks including reconnaissance, airstrikes and bomb disposal.
I have a better idea! Let’s just STOP THE WARS! How about everybody quits the land- and money-grubbing and is CONTENT with what they have?! How’s them apples?
War is bad enough. Now they want to make it even easier with automation. Rrrrright. Mangled bodies, broken homes and hearts, devastated lands, mesothelioma, and radiation poisoning– that’s not enough! We have to spread the death and destruction by making war EASIER! Yay!
If these dudes were really serious about making war more palatable, they’d toss out all their bombs, and play competitive chess or use Lego men to smash each other. Easy as that.
Now don’t take me for a pacifist here. I love my AK-47 just as much as any girl. But I’m not going to go use it on my neighbor because I covet his pea patch! And I’m also not going to create a robot army so I can with a clear conscience invade my evil neighbor! And what good is it if my robots shoot his robots? Won’t we both just build more and more and more robots? How is this supposed to solve anything?!
War is EVILLLLLL. It must come with a cost! Otherwise, destroying people and their lands will be as easy as flipping a switch.
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Um, have they not seen the Terminator movies? Or that one with Will Smith? Sooner or later, the robots are going to turn against us humans, no matter what country we’re from, and then we’re going to all be SOL without John Connor in sight.
On a serious note, however, I would be scared they would make nuclear robots, and the robots then malfunctioning. Seriously, how often does your computer freeze up? That will have to happen with the robots. They’d probably be vulnerable to hackers, too. Unlike a person, you can’t really talk down a robot on a rampage because of hackers, viruses, etc.
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:50 am
this sounds kinda scary to me… {:-D
January 23rd, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Just look at the bright side Crabby, no one dies, just these robots, that’s a start right? LOL….