Body-eating robots rule
Scott
Junkie Cindy Sheets sent me this, and it gives me a total military-scifi hardon. Imagine a military robot that is powered on biomass. And yeah, biomass includes dead bodies. Dead human bodies. So imagine machines that kill you, then eat you. Which means eventually, you're going to have robots that may kill you in order to eat you to get more power.
My mind is spinning with story possibilities for this one. Some of it may find its way into PANDEMIC, but not in the way you might expect.
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Damn!
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EATR!
Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that's right, "EATR" -you gotta love that acronym
This is the the very definition of "steampunk"!
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body-eating bots
Hey Scott! Wonder why I immediately thought of you when I read this? Will be looking for these buggers in some of your work. Thanks for posting it!
Cindy
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sounds like a movie where robots kill off all the humans
or did they put them into pods and made them batteries. I agree with Twowire, this can only end badly
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Love that UAV
I am totally going to make an RC plane that looks like that drone. I dig that inverted V-tail.
BTW, speaking of unmanned military badassery, check out Howe and Howe's Ripsaw. This thing looks like it could be a ground attack drone straight off the PUV James Keeling!
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Eh, don't get too excited.
Apparently Cyclone Power Technologies is wussing out on us & claiming that the EATR will be strictly vegetarian (press release PDF). There's some mumbling about "decration of the dead" and some Vienna Convention thing.
No wait, those are Vienna sausages ( I was hungry). Geneva Convention, that's it.
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Sure there gonna be vegetarians
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oh, DO WANT!!!
Those things are the pimpest things I have seen in a long time! Nice scouting work on that one!
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I actually saw it in Popular Mechanics a few months ago.
Yeah, I read Popular Mechanics. Me and like four other people around here, which is why the Wallgreens only gets three copies each month :(
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um im sorry what
when i saw the title i was scarred when i saw what scott wrote in the describtion i laughed
idea
so if i kill people can i fuel my house with them.. hmm..lolHmmmm. I wonder if you can get a tax break
for being "green" heating your house with biological "waste"?
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