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In reply to the discussion: Deadliest weapon ever invented- Metal Storm [View all]delrem
(9,688 posts)11. hmmmm, sounds true.
There's also the fact that the US military is sufficiently weaponized to do anything no matter how destructive already. What the military is looking for is robotics, to deliver "punishment" from bunkers (or cubicles) half a world away.
Cannon-fodder is supplied by private armies recruited from the most brutal or from the most desperate. The world of the 1% that the military defends ensures (by definition!) that there will always be plenty of those. The owners of the armies, the military contractors, are the 1%.
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I wonder if anyone is considering a code of ethics for engineers that might make them think twice...
LongTomH
Aug 2013
#7
Accept the idea the Manhattan Project was, by 1944, not really about WWII you (generic you) then
HubertHeaver
Aug 2013
#41
This concept is 20 years old, has never been deployed (though the chinese are working on it)
AtheistCrusader
Aug 2013
#16
It's not a manufacturer's statement, it's an episode of a series on Discovery called
ET Awful
Aug 2013
#26