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Originally posted by UnaChispa
We will never know how much is actually spent on technological developments like these. Nobody cares.
Originally posted by jude11
A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find -- grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.
"We'll build anything we want and we'll control it BECAUSE we built it."
edit on 25-11-2012 by jude11 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SLAYER69
I think some of the replies in this threads scare me more than the potential rising of the machines
Originally posted by Bleeeeep
reply to post by SLAYER69
On one hand I see robots as the only feasible way to have a fair police force. On the other hand, if they fall into the wrong hands they would be capible of destroying us.
So, I think we should not allow ourselves to create things we cannot contain if some problem where to arise in that creation. Power plants, robots, etc
Originally posted by magma
I have an interest in this stuff. I really do not see any major threat at this time. More so in 20 years time I would believe that 'they' will have ironed out the bugs and certainly made significant progress in enabling these machines to become more agile and reliable. Then it would be time to worry. 20 years is not too far away really.
I also think that these machines would never be able to fully replace humans.
Originally posted by jam321
Battle of the Ages
On one hand we have people trying to bring back the dinosaurs and on the other hand we have people trying to create some monster machines.
Science is getting more interesting by the day.
I wonder what China is creating seeing that they are hoarding up on precious metals.
Originally posted by Asktheanimals
reply to post by SLAYER69
It's not life size terminator robots that trouble me.
It's the nano tech that we can't see.
How would we even know if something had been introduced in our bodies through vaccinations, etc.?
That's where I think the greatest potential for abuse lies.