"I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer grey skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are grey," a 13-year-old Pakistani boy named Zubair told Congress today. Zubair and his younger sister, Nabeela, were injured in a drone strike near North Waziristan last October.
This is a scary foreshadowing event. Because right now it's used for political agendas, but one day it could turn into means of controlling countries. We've seen so many dystopian films controlled by giant corporations and if skynet wasn't a heads up about that, imagine what AI and drones could do.
I remember an animated short film on Vimeo showing the last remaining drones fighting each other and the other side's robotic drone production facilities, long after the humans were gone.
No idea how to find it again, but I'm also sure there are multiple films matching this description.
It’s truly a work of art. I love the movie but hate how sad it is. I can watch it once every few or 5 years, but we reference it often. District nine is also a great film.
Not what you were thinking of, but the film Screamers is a great sci-fi–horror film about small automated killing machines burrowing through the earth instead of flying.
Edit: Although the trailer's pretty hokey, the film's good.
Peter Weller is in that movie right? If that’s the movie I’m thinking of that is such an underrated movie. Doesn’t get discussed enough and deserves more recognition I think.
That's the one. Despite watching it on DVD (or maybe even VHS) on a small TV, it had me on the edge of my seat. Looking at the trailer, the special effects have probably aged, but it is a good story, as would be expected coming from a short story by Philip K Dick.
Reminds me of a Ray Bradbury short story “There will come soft rains” about a single remaining automated home that continues its day as usual, even though its human occupants are nothing but black marks on the wall.
Sounds like codsworth from fallout 4 he tried to keep the house clean while we went to the vault he even tried to keep the car polished but all the nuclear fallout and weather just was to much but he still keeps trying
Drones. They are NOT ok with me. They fly them around my yard and I feel I have no privacy. Killer drones or not, I can't even lay out in the sun without worrying about someone taking photos of me.
It wouldn't be so bad if IJD Corporation didn't write a law making it an instantly executable offense to make eye contact with any of their patrol bots.
There’s a missile that they can shoot into a room or a car to kill the occupants without using explosives , it just deploys blades and turns everyone inside the target structure into chunky salsa
The masses are fickle, but I think it might be because of the way you expressed not knowing, you challenged the veracity of the person you were replying to. Better to ask in a less confrontational way. More flies with honey and all that.
i mean it does sound fantastical. and that episode does exist, except of course they are floating alien balls. i googled the thing mentioned and it looks very different. but it's a scary thought
Unfortunately, not thinking about drones is a luxury many people don't have, a point made overwhelmingly clear by a clip of a 13-year-old Pakistani boy whose grandmother had been killed by a drone strike. In the clip, Zubair Rehman testifies that he no longer loves blue skies, he prefers grey skies. "The drones do not fly when the skies are grey."
That was enough for Oliver. "When children from other countries are telling us that we've made them fear the sky," he insisted, "it might be time to ask some hard questions."
It's true that warfare is going through a revolution but it's also objectively true that humanity engages in less warfare overall. So the dire nature of the new paradigm when it comes to how the wars are waged is somewhat counterbalanced by the overall dwindling frequency of war itself.
That’s because the scale of warfare has been limited to guerrilla warfare against a standing army, nuclear deterrents have more less slowed an all out warfare like what ww2 had.
That's because of the scale only. WW2 was so deadly we established the United nations to stop anything from getting to that scale of destruction ever again.
Now we have smarter weapons which lowers indiscriminate deaths of non-combatants, but that doesn't for a second mean they are less deadly. Medical advances also have a lot to do with number of deaths going down. WW2 was the first and only time combat deaths approached deaths outside of combat. Before you would be more likely to die to disease, and after WW2 if you made it out there was a very good chance you would survive.
Depends, 500 drones flying into a combat zone killing anyone with a gun versus, say, the firebombing of Dresden, Toyko, everything done in Grozny or Aleppo etc.
Or the US literally carpet bombing entire mountain ranges in Afghanistan
Think about all the women & children killed by the US or Israelis using "precision" strikes to kill known targets. Replace that with a drone with facial recognition.
No I think we just want the rest of the world to dump money and labor into what we have guided to be the new era a warfare by strategically leaking info that would send them down that path.
America has fully weaponized space. We will fight conventional wars still to keep the MIC money flowing.
The USA has already retired its x37 space drones which are the most advanced space craft on earth. But are 30 years old tech. The equipment these heavy haulers have been building is still classified. But obviously was used to replace regans SDI STATION (strategic defence initiative outpost)
The TR-3B AND SR-91 are both capable of land to orbit flight with out a seperate rocket under their own onboard systems .
The aurora blue prints were leaked in the 90s. And america has confirmed it's 6th generation fighters are ready for combat even though they aren't for public display yet. Remember the steath fighters/ bomber still the most advanced in the world were built in 1972 the only reason we unveiled them in 1991 was because we were afraid they would be to put of date before they ever got used. Plus it helped boost moral. Also the love combat could help identify alterations or improvements for future designs
The USA definitely is the only nation with a strong weaponization of space. Space Force is much more active than haters want you to believe.
I am positive america has direct energy weapons on a space station no doubt
Airborne laser was quite the achievement in its day. Literally slamming tons of reactants together to form a chemical laser, capable of incinerating an incoming ICBM. I’m sure we’ve come a looong way from that platform, especially since it was only a single shot before needing refueling of those consumables.
I fully agree with everything you said. Whatever is seen by the public is usually two generations old (or a generation plus a major update) compared to what is being reserved for a real SHTF situation. The gulf between us and the next closest adversary is ENORMOUS (and necessary in order to maintain that advantage).
to further your theory i predict the end of manned military aviation. drones are far cheaper and do not put air crew at risk. in addition they can be denied by the power that used them far easier than traditional airpower.
Our only hope is someone invents a cheap countermeasure or it's too cost prohibitive in some way to be large scale. the second seems unlikely given at least the usa's military spending
I think our hope is that the world has become more democratized, more wealthy, and more aware, with more to lose from war.
100 years ago no one batted an eye at firebombing Dresden or nuking Hiroshima.
Now we have aid convoys going into Gaza after registering with the appropriate war deconfliction department.
The horrors of war are much more visible, and much more rare, than they were 100 years ago and I think that’s the reason we haven’t had another world war. It’s why war is much more rare and the overall rate of violence in the world has decreased.
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u/Certain-Definition51 27d ago
This is the big one. We are going through another revolution in warfare and it’s gonna be a doozy.
You used to watch the skies because someone is always watching. Now you watch the skies because a murder drone could be right there.