Yes, my first thought was UGP locked alone in her/his/it's apartment with only the dead body of her/his/it's dead boyfriend laying on the floor. Because UGP had her/his/it's thumb removed in an attempt to be more 'cat' like, he/she/it was trapped...and forced to eat her/his/it's dead boyfriend...
,,,what? you didn't think that?
undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-27-09 09:02 PM
Original message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7100817
Eating the dead?
Edited on Fri Nov-27-09 09:21 PM by undergroundpanther
Controversy erupted when reports emerged that the Pentagon was close to completing a robot designed to forage for its own fuel by consuming "biomass in the environment," raising concerns that the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) might be intended to fuel itself from the bodies of the dead.
http://www.naturalnews.com/027584_military_robots.html
Controversy erupted when reports emerged that the Pentagon was close to completing a robot designed to forage for its own fuel by consuming "biomass in the environment," raising concerns that the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) might be intended to fuel itself from the bodies of the dead.
http://io9.com/5315547/will-new-intelligent-combat-robo ...
http://www.naturalnews.com/027584_military_robots.html
looks like the robot will scavenge fuel,rip up plants eating,trees,etc..that's all we need,tree eating robots.And the choice of words bio mass,it means biological stuff.I think with the research being done on fuels that come from dead bodies,it leaves that ugly door open.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1534821.html
As for the geneva rule about desecration of war dead?? Is it desecration to remove them? In war dead of enemies do get desecrated. What if there was no dead bodies for reporters to see to reporta massacre, war crimes or anything else? Does anyone remember Jenin? Israel kept observers and reporters out as they destroyed the town.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51a/index-d.html
They'd appear innocent if these robots ate all the bodies before anyone got to witness what happened.
yes...that exactly what the military is planning...
Liberation Angel (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-27-09 09:06 PM
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1. Let me see - suppose this new weapon eats wounded too then it becomes a perfect killing machine
Seems that unless it can tell the ifference between a dead person and an unconcious or immobile one, then that would suck up anything ioncluding babies, puppies or old and disable people.
How Nazirific!
Like a cobo=- woodchipper Auschwitz on wheels or track runners.
What joy!
AND--- we got the NAZI reference in off the side pocket.
GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-27-09 09:15 PM
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5. I find that utterly offensive and if the Geneva Conventions don't have a
way of shutting this down, then the U.N. had better come up with something. (Not that war itself isn't utterly offensive. )
Well, shit. I guess we are gonna have to go with the nuclear powered robots then.