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20. ...or the raw materials to make batteries for the 'killer robots'.

Reply to Junkdrawer (Reply #12)

Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:08 AM

Feb 2013

Or mine the coal for conventional electric energy. The robots will have to be powered by something.

Wouldn't it be tragic if the unwashed masses attacked and the wealthy couldn't defend themselves because the long logistical tail required to have a robot army had decayed.

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...or the raw materials to make batteries for the 'killer robots'. Blanks Feb 2013 #20

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