Pentagon working on flesh-eating robots.

[Darth Wagtaros]

First DARPA's HARP project invites an extra dimensional alien invasion (thank you Art Bell for breaking that news) and now this.  Clearly events are accelerating.

[Siege]

First DARPA's HARP project invites an extra dimensional alien invasion (thank you Art Bell for breaking that news) and now this.  Clearly events are accelerating.

How the hell do you know about DARPA?


And then fucking Neil accusses me of giving too much shit away posting here.

[Alatriste]

First DARPA's HARP project invites an extra dimensional alien invasion (thank you Art Bell for breaking that news) and now this.  Clearly events are accelerating.

How the hell do you know about DARPA?


And then fucking Neil accusses me of giving too much shit away posting here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

[Zanza]

How the hell do you know about DARPA?

It's not exactly a secret institution. And there inventions aren't either. After all, we are just using their greatest invention - the internet.

[Razgovory]

This struck me a really funny.  "I bet he knows about the Coast Guard too!  Someone talked".

[KRonn]

Now if only they could make an M1 tank feed like that, never need refueling! And other vehicles. Next airplanes.... think of all the savings in fuel costs!   

I wonder how long for this technology to hit the consumer market.   

[Neil]

How the hell do you know about DARPA?

Everyone knows about DARPA.  Free society and all that.

And then fucking Neil accusses me of giving too much shit away posting here.

No, I accuse you of spying for the Chinese.

[FunkMonk]

Instead of going to Basic Training, all future Army recruits will be fed into meat-grinders to support our new armies of flesh-eating robot warrior-dinosaurs. Also the Air Force will be entirely automated and the Navy will bombard whole continents with heavy space battleships launched from the Moon.

I have seen the future, and it is mine.

[Neil]

Instead of going to Basic Training, all future Army recruits will be fed into meat-grinders to support our new armies of flesh-eating robot warrior-dinosaurs. Also the Air Force will be entirely automated and the Navy will bombard whole continents with heavy space battleships launched from the Moon.

I have seen the future, and it is mine.

Interesting fact:  the Air Force will be reincorporated into the senior services.  An independent air force makes no sense at all.

[Viking]

Instead of going to Basic Training, all future Army recruits will be fed into meat-grinders to support our new armies of flesh-eating robot warrior-dinosaurs. Also the Air Force will be entirely automated and the Navy will bombard whole continents with heavy space battleships launched from the Moon.

I have seen the future, and it is mine.

Interesting fact:  the Air Force will be reincorporated into the senior services.  An independent air force makes no sense at all.

But then you'll never get this

[FunkMonk]

Instead of going to Basic Training, all future Army recruits will be fed into meat-grinders to support our new armies of flesh-eating robot warrior-dinosaurs. Also the Air Force will be entirely automated and the Navy will bombard whole continents with heavy space battleships launched from the Moon.

I have seen the future, and it is mine.

Interesting fact:  the Air Force will be reincorporated into the senior services.  An independent air force makes no sense at all.

I've thought about this, and agree except for the fact that someone still needs to maintain the large stockpiles of nuclear weapons needed for the Space Navy and Robo-Army to vanquish Western Civilization's enemies. The Air Force will be renamed 'Rocket Bombardardment Group' or some such.

[Neil]

I've thought about this, and agree except for the fact that someone still needs to maintain the large stockpiles of nuclear weapons needed for the Space Navy and Robo-Army to vanquish Western Civilization's enemies. The Air Force will be renamed 'Rocket Bombardardment Group' or some such.

But why have a massive and seperate bureaucracy to do this?  The Army already maintains many kinds of ordnance, so why not atomic weapons?  A space navy would obviously require enormous stocks of atomics to be used in space.  I can't see any justification for maintaining a seperate force just to care for earth-based atomic weapons.

[Ed Anger]

The Air force could be run by 5 chimps and a hippo.

[FunkMonk]

I've thought about this, and agree except for the fact that someone still needs to maintain the large stockpiles of nuclear weapons needed for the Space Navy and Robo-Army to vanquish Western Civilization's enemies. The Air Force will be renamed 'Rocket Bombardardment Group' or some such.

But why have a massive and seperate bureaucracy to do this?  The Army already maintains many kinds of ordnance, so why not atomic weapons?  A space navy would obviously require enormous stocks of atomics to be used in space.  I can't see any justification for maintaining a seperate force just to care for earth-based atomic weapons.

A future Air Force/Rocket Bombardment Group would be entirely automated except for a select few men to ensure the machines do not turn on humanity. I don't see a massive bureaucracy developing around such a force in a system where a rivalry between the Space Navy and Robo-Army would likely overshadow anything else. The Space Navy would be the premier service anyway, in much the same way the US Navy currently is. Besides, having a nation's entire land-based atomic arsenal in the hands of flesh-eating robots or a space battleship with enough firepower to incinerate entire continents on its own is just plain silly. The Triad must be complete.

[FunkMonk]

The Air force could be run by 5 chimps and a hippo.

I feel I must defend my inter-service brethren because I work with them every day.

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