Correct. Does it have an extra large battery pack for endurance and loitering while it’s identifying a target, or is there a chunk of high explosive surrounded by shrapnel? There’s no way to tell which is which without taking it apart, and if it’s the latter and whatever is controlling it makes the choice that it wants you dead, it’s not going to wait around for you to inspect it, it’ll instantly zip towards you at 200 mph. Bang. The end.
I’ve watched enough Ukraine War footage to have a good idea how utterly surreal the future is going to be. Humanity has always been incredibly talented at finding new and more efficient ways to kill. It’s kind of our specialty. The wonderweapons we’ve gotten used to being developed by the military industrial complex tend to be expensive and impractical, because that provides a nice mix of profit and geopolitical control, but these small, cheap, efficient and incredibly versatile killing machines are going to reshape the world the same way the development of firearms did. I really have no idea what the future will look like anymore, I don’t think even any of the science fiction has really grasped all the consequences this will have.
Correct. Does it have an extra large battery pack for endurance and loitering while it’s identifying a target, or is there a chunk of high explosive surrounded by shrapnel? There’s no way to tell which is which without taking it apart, and if it’s the latter and whatever is controlling it makes the choice that it wants you dead, it’s not going to wait around for you to inspect it, it’ll instantly zip towards you at 200 mph. Bang. The end.
I’ve watched enough Ukraine War footage to have a good idea how utterly surreal the future is going to be. Humanity has always been incredibly talented at finding new and more efficient ways to kill. It’s kind of our specialty. The wonderweapons we’ve gotten used to being developed by the military industrial complex tend to be expensive and impractical, because that provides a nice mix of profit and geopolitical control, but these small, cheap, efficient and incredibly versatile killing machines are going to reshape the world the same way the development of firearms did. I really have no idea what the future will look like anymore, I don’t think even any of the science fiction has really grasped all the consequences this will have.