Posted on 11/11/2016 7:07:34 AM PST by plain talk
The device is said to be employed at the border and can be used from anything to detecting low-flying drones to targeting a vehicle from six miles away.
Chief project engineer Dmitry Perminov said: "In its structure there is a radar unit that detects a target: human - to about 7km distance, the car - up to 10km.
"After detection, the target is in engaged using an optical system."
And he confirmed that interest in the robot has already been significant.
Perminov added: "This system can be applied not only as a military interface , but also for the protection of any strategic objects.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
I thought Steve Austin killed this thing already.
“...can detect a human...”
Hillary is safe.
Trump and Putin can use this to get Soros.
This touches on something that always fascinates me in “us vs them” alien invasion movies. They usually assume an alien technology only slightly more advanced than ours regarding their ability to sense things.
Oblivion - there is no way they could have gotten that device into the ship. Same with Independence day. Even with our modern technology today they would have been hard pressed to do it.
This is also what made Cowboys and Aliens less believable.
Still, I enjoyed all three very much. You just have to suspend disbelief a bit.
So, its not really a “killer” robot. It’s a detection system that can be used as an autonomous targeting system for a weapon system.
Cool!
Mount them on top of the wall and let them call Border Patrol teams to meet the invaders at the wall.
We need them on our border!
How much do they cost?................
A few of these things roaming around the southwest along with the wall and our porous border will be a thing of the past.
BUILD THE WALL!
Is he human?
Right! Still, some will climb over...............heh, heh, heh................
“The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy. But these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot.” ~ Kyle Reese, Terminator, 1984
That’s one happy T-800 right there.
This is impossible, Obama killed the border cameras because they couldn’t distinquish an animal from a person.
I think about this sometimes as well and laugh at it. Consider:
An army from 1916, just 100 years ago, would get completely demolished by an army today. If the current day army fought smart and fought with victory as the goal (over, say, minimizing civilian casualty) it might not sustain a single casualty. That’s only a difference of 100 years.
Now, consider the age of the universe. Current estimation has it at 14,000,000,000 years old. An intelligent civilization that is 99.999% similar to our age to us would be 14,000 years ahead of us. They would look at us the way we look at the people at the end of the Stone Age.
There is a presumption here. I am presuming that technological advances continue to increase over time and that we are not at or near the peak of what can be accomplished technologically. If that is true - and we have no reason to believe it is not - then an alien army that is 99.999% similar to our age would be capable of destroying us with almost no effort at all.
Now, I’m not saying any alien race will kill us. It’s possible that a civilization that advanced has moved past the need for conquering. It’s an unknown and the idea that we’d be able to put up much of a fight is, well, unbelievable.
So, suspend your disbelief and enjoy it when Jeff Goldblum defeats a superior alien force with a computer virus. That’s what escapist fantasy is all about, after all.
We could all learn a lot from the terminator robots. They understand how to enjoy the little things, like a task completed and not worry about all the other crap going on in the world.
And then the Border Patrol teams can shoot them. /sarc (just kidding :-)
Yup. I think the one that probably got it the closest was 2001, a Space Odyssey.
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