Season's Greetings from Skynet

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Someday that shit is going to be useful for something other than youtube videos.

Sagrilarus wrote: Someday that shit is going to be useful for something other than youtube videos.

Such as de-boning human flesh.

Just wait until they mount a chainsaw or a machine gun to a pack of these electronic wolves:

Just looking at the form factor of these things, I can imagine a post-massacre landscape where herds of robotic buffalo have reclaimed the land once lost by their biological templates.

. . . until their batteries run out. 20 minutes give or take.

Seriously, my tax dollars going into an electronic ungulate that everyone feels obligated to kick as it goes by. Presumably there's a goal other than "can't kick it over" somewhere in this project. For the moment it's pulling a wheelchair with a billing engineer dressed as Santa in it.

And seriously, the front two reindeer aren't doing jack. The one in the back is the only one working. A metaphor for the entire project?

I wish there was a petition we could sign and choose where $5 of our tax money goes. Something really interesting that could take off with the proper application of research dollars. Although really, Google and TESLA seem to have replaced the government in many ways.

I'd like a drone with a 200 lb. payload, a quadcopter, so I could step into a harness and fly myself around. That seems like a possibility. Speaking of drones, there are consumer models that will carry over 10kg. Here is what 10kg of C4 looks like when detonated:
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Which is why the authorities are freaking out about drones right now. Take 10 or 20 of these, and have their navigation handled by something running in Amazon's cloud, and you've got this dynamic, adaptable killing swarm. Which could be brought down with a handful of yarn. Or a hawk:



What were we talking about?

Sagrilarus wrote: . . . until their batteries run out. 20 minutes give or take.

Seriously, my tax dollars going into an electronic ungulate that everyone feels obligated to kick as it goes by. Presumably there's a goal other than "can't kick it over" somewhere in this project. For the moment it's pulling a wheelchair with a billing engineer dressed as Santa in it.

And seriously, the front two reindeer aren't doing jack. The one in the back is the only one working. A metaphor for the entire project?

You lost me at pragmatism.

Somewhere in Santa's basement...