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- elbm, on 07/15/2009, -1/+36If it can eat dead bodies it can eat live ones too.
- 3piece, on 07/15/2009, -2/+27is it wrong that a part of me wants something to go wrong? It would be kind of awesome if a robot apocalypse actually happened.
- warp99, on 07/16/2009, -0/+22Geneva applies plus about a dozen other protocols would be violated:
Geneva Conventions and other protocols: principles of international humanitarian law
(except)
• "All the parties in an armed conflict: “… should, without delay, take all possible measures to seek and collect the dead, without distinction, and have to treat them with respect and dignity avoiding the plunder and the dispossession of the same.”
• All the parties in an armed conflict should take measures to identify the dead before burying them or burning them. The Conventions also state: “… Parties to the conflict shall ensure that burial or cremation of the dead, carried out individually as far as circumstances permit, is preceded by a careful examination, if possible by a medical examination, of the bodies, with a view to confirming death, establishing identity and enabling a report to be made.”
• “….Bodies shall not be cremated except for imperative reasons of hygiene or for motives based on the religion of the deceased. In case of cremation, the circumstances and reasons for cremation shall be stated in detail in the death certificate or on the authenticated list of the dead.” In an armed conflict it is necessary to bury or to burn honorably the dead and to respect their graves. The people whose fatal remains cannot be delivered to their family members in an armed conflict will be buried individually. All the graves will be marked. Only exceptionally will collective graves be utilized.
• “All the parties in an armed conflict have to do everything possible to provide information on the identity, the location, and the cause of the death of the deceased to the responsible authorities or to their relatives.”
http://www.helid.desastres.net/?e=d-010who--000--1 ... - GMH24, on 07/15/2009, -1/+19Waiting for the inevitable cliche intelligent robot comment:
"I for one welcome our new flesh eating robot overlords"... - MacParrot, on 07/15/2009, -2/+19There's an App for that
- warp99, on 07/15/2009, -7/+22This violates the Geneva Conventions on so many levels, but I guess when has that ever stopped the United States?
- EddiePotato, on 07/16/2009, -0/+14That joke was kind of already used up in the "Article".
- bakedpajamas, on 07/15/2009, -4/+17And what exactly would happen if it ran out of "Dead" bodies to eat?
- waaan, on 07/16/2009, -1/+11nom nom nom
- Dr3w, on 07/16/2009, -0/+10God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates flesh eating robots. Flesh eating robots eat man. Woman inherits...oh wait, she just got eaten too.
- Akairenn, on 07/16/2009, -1/+9Pan in on elbm, starting intently at a computer monitor.
He looks up, and dramatic music track #23 begins to play.
elbm: "If it can eat dead bodies," (slight pause, actor's eyes widen) "It can eat live ones, too!"
This summer, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. And giant, flesh-eating robots. - JoeHague, on 07/16/2009, -1/+9I wonder how man MPC ( miles per corpse) they get/
- TwinTurboMike, on 07/16/2009, -0/+7Perhaps it was all just one big misunderstanding:
DOD: "We need you guys to develop some autonomous disposal robots for the Army Corps..."
RT: "Yes, we build machine to eat corpse for you." - overtoke, on 07/16/2009, -1/+7are you sarah connor? nom nom nom
- cfuse, on 07/16/2009, -0/+6You'll regret that when Wall-E turns up and eats your balls.
- BeShirtHappy, on 07/15/2009, -1/+7aaaaaahhhhh.....Robotic zombies!
- chase001, on 07/16/2009, -0/+6No more mass graves?
- ZenMojo, on 07/16/2009, -0/+5And she loved every minute of it.
- cygnus2112, on 07/16/2009, -0/+5I guess Mister Gutsy got the Cannibal perk somehow.
- TheBigBad, on 07/16/2009, -0/+5Will the army change their creed to "no meal left behind?"
- chromerium, on 07/16/2009, -0/+4More information on the robot in question:
http://www.robotictechnologyinc.com/index.php/EATR
Nowhere is the word 'corpse' found. - wonderchemist, on 07/15/2009, -1/+5Does the Geneva Convention apply to corpses?
- warp99, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3You just invoked the logic fallacy of Equivocation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation
Violations of the Geneva Conventions apply to parties in armed conflict, therefore my statement was in reference to the act of robots eating corpses during armed conflict, not the research itself.
You took my statement out of context. I hope that you're not in college because if I was your professor you would have failed. - Lane, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3Never mind the corpses, the real question is would my vehicle thus qualify as alternative fuel?
- pagno, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3Not to sound like a hippie or anything, but it could be good for humanity to stop fighting each other and come together against a common enemy. We all know thats not going to happen. Either the robots win, or we still fight each other over who gets to defeat the robot menace, and kill ourselves, so the robots win anyway.
- bungoman, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3"biomass" is code for "corpse"
- benroy, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2Can they make a variant for my back yard that fuels itself by eating my roommates dogs poop?
- kemp34, on 07/15/2009, -1/+3The rise of the machines...
- GeorgeStone2, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2When the human race can unite against something as a whole, we will be able to put aside the colour of our skin or the religious views.
A zombie/robot apocalypse is what the world needs.
Hop to it scientists. - yocouchdigga, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2this is such a ***** bad idea, it would almost be funny, if it wasn't so horrifyingly ominous.
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -1/+3AS SEEN ON TV!
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -3/+5The DoD doesn't care about the Geneva Suggestions.
- ajsmth, on 07/16/2009, -2/+3But can it play Crysis?
- ushere, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1can they differentiate between friend and foe?
eaten by friendly fire? - defwheezer, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1US Mil has been using microbial-reactor versions in The Field for awhile- was reported on almost a year ago by the Pluri Media Group, including the potential for "friendly feeding" incidents:
http://mental-escher.blogspot.com/2008/09/cyberpun ... - Skootle, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Well, it's a lot more complicated than that. Unless we abandon conventional computing, that's not going to happen. Current computing technology is way too efficient and programmable to be able to evolve in such a way (if at all), so I don't think we have to worry about robots learning unwanted skills by themselves anytime soon.
On the other hand, once molecular computing (or maybe quantum computing, not sure) gets a bit more momentum, we should start worrying more about this problem and setting up an adequate regulatory system.
That, however, doesn't mean I'm in favour of this crap (corpse-eating robot). Sounds sadistic as hell. - Shaggy3, on 07/16/2009, -1/+2So basically once the robot realizes how easy it is to turn a breathing human into a corpse.. We are all going to die.
- Darrelc, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Just blew a hit through my nose... should stop reading digg comments while im getting baked lol
- cygnus2112, on 07/16/2009, -1/+2Of which, the U.S. did not ratify the protocols.
Just FYI though. Watch out for robots. - Rudegar, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1:O necrons
http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs31/f/2008/226/8/0/Nec ... - phantomsranch, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1bad idea jeans
- pseudononymist, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1that's what happens when you outsource to China
- Abram730, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1They are coming along nicely
Here is the first test at Tiananmen Square
http://hackedgadgets.com/wp-content/_person_rescue ...
JK - Abram730, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1EIA(Eaten In Action), by friendly fryer.. a case of frittercide.
- TheBigBad, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1It takes a bite, if there is no scream it continues.
- Abram730, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1If you can't find the bodies you can't count them... right?
Would the robots be arrested for violations or would they be recalled?
Besides problems like those pesky mass graves in Afghanistan would vanish and with plausible deniability. - warp99, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1And the additional protocol of 2005 was not ratified by the U.S.
- warp99, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1@cygnus2112
Wrong, the U.S. has ratified all the Geneva Conventions with the exception of the two protocols of 1977. - defwheezer, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Instead of "friendly fire", we get "friendly feeding"!
- pseudononymist, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1i think it would be Crysis
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