Wait, we had a cannibal robot gun six years ago and I'm just hearing about it now?
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I would have sworn a chainsaw-wielding, corpse-powered robot gatling gun was a 2020 sort of thing, but this throwback is from 2015. Obviously a concept ahead of its time.
Bonus points for an all-timer acronym.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/09/remember-eatr-the-military-robot-that-was-supposed-to-eat-humans/
BOOOOOO. I will never give up on the mental image of a floating horde of railgun boats.
Speaking of the future, bring on the era of trans-oceanic cargo transport and the inevitable Rocket Marines Corps.
Not sure if anyone in DC is up on current events, but it might be time to stop thinking of our cyber budget as a zero-sum offense vs. defense issue.
https://breakingdefense.com/2021/06/dod-budget-appears-to-cut-cyber-offense-beef-up-defenses/
Fine, I’ll say it. $7.5B seems light when it comes to an unmanned systems budget. Drone swarms don’t come cheap, you know.
Good thing their labs are the hallmark of safety and protocol; we definitely don’t have to worry about China’s artificial super-sun running amok and killing us all.
https://www.sciencealert.com/china-s-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-reached-another-milestone
I hope you all are looking forward to a normal-ish summer like I am. Assuming, that is, that the latest gelato shipment to China doesn’t unleash a zombie horde on us all, of course.
-JQP
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