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Star Wars 7 coming in 2015
hedgie:
Humans are also cheaper and more expendable than terminators or hypothetical Evas (not to mention the trouble of finding a sane pilot for the latter).
mustang6172:
--- Quote from: SubaruStephen on 01 Dec 2014, 20:13 ---
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 01 Dec 2014, 18:24 ---Right... because America's military isn't quite literally the bleeding technological edge. We're approaching rail guns, combat ready laser weapons, exo-skeletons and fuck only knows what DARPA has sealed away in their labs. The defense industry has always massively advanced tech.
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We've been "approaching" that stuff for 30 years and some of it actually works, yet the standard weapons for the armed forces are M16s, various sniper rifles, and pistols.
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Not to mention the fact that robots patrol the sky.
Kugai:
Skynet anyone?
BenRG:
In many ways, Palpatine and Anakin Skywalker were fascists. They believed in establishing absolute order through force. Like their RL equivalents, this would doubtless include open-ended scientific research without any ethical controls so long as it produced tools to increase the Emperor's power.
SubaruStephen:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 01 Dec 2014, 21:26 ---
--- Quote from: SubaruStephen on 01 Dec 2014, 20:13 ---
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 01 Dec 2014, 18:24 ---Right... because America's military isn't quite literally the bleeding technological edge. We're approaching rail guns, combat ready laser weapons, exo-skeletons and fuck only knows what DARPA has sealed away in their labs. The defense industry has always massively advanced tech.
--- End quote ---
We've been "approaching" that stuff for 30 years and some of it actually works, yet the standard weapons for the armed forces are M16s, various sniper rifles, and pistols.
--- End quote ---
Not to mention the fact that robots patrol the sky.
--- End quote ---
You're overhyping them, they're basically a more expensive version of this:
With a camera (and sometimes gun) attached.
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