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A Facebook Update In Real Life. Mind blowing physics engine demonstration. 3. Drone Crash Database « Drone Wars UK. The Terminators: drone strikes prompt MoD to ponder ethics of killer robots | World news. A ‘harvester terminator’ in the Warner Bros film Terminator Salvation. The report warns of a ‘journey towards a Terminator-like reality’. Image: Shooting Star/eyevine The growing use of unmanned aircraft in combat situations raises huge moral and legal issues, and threatens to make war more likely as armed robots take over from human beings, according to an internal study by the Ministry of Defence. The report warns of the dangers of an "incremental and involuntary journey towards a Terminator-like reality", referring to James Cameron's 1984 movie, in which humans are hunted by robotic killing machines. It says the pace of technological development is accelerating at such a rate that Britain must quickly establish a policy on what will constitute "acceptable machine behaviour".

It states that "the recent extensive use of unmanned aircraft over Pakistan and Yemen may already herald a new era". The US-manufactured General Atomics Reaper is currently the RAF's only armed unmanned aircraft. 5 Inventions That Prove 'The Terminator' Is Upon Us. We recently chronicled ways that robots are already becoming human and subtly hinted that this would someday lead to the destruction of humanity.

"But Cracked! " some of you said, "The development of intelligent, humanoid robots doesn't mean that they're actually dangerous or Terminator-like in any way! ERROR! ERROR! MUST REBOOT. " Well, let us now detail five real technologies that, according to our calculations, are 100 percent certain to drag us into a nightmare future infested with killer machines shaped like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Drones That Can Think Getty You've probably heard about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles like Predator drones, the pilotless aircraft the CIA loves sending to places like [REDACTED], [REDACTED] and of course [REDACTED]. Getty"Hope and change are all well and good, but sometimes you just need to blast a motherfucker.

" But really, UAVs are just big remote-controlled planes, with dudes operating them from the ground. "I learned this from you, dad! " Are we being alarmist? PowerSnorkel Combines Scuba Diving And Snorkeling! » MTV Geek. Scuba diving requires a fair amount of training and you have to carry that heavy oxygen tank whenever you go. Snorkeling doesn’t require any training, but you’re stuck at the water’s surface wishing you could be down below with the fishes.

PowerDive's PowerSnorkel combines the two and looks like it could be an awesome alternative. With the PowerSnorkel a diver’s air supply floats on top of the water. The floating pump pushes air down to a diver’s regulator through a 20-foot hose, eliminating the need for an oxygen tank. So what’s the catch? [OhGizmo] How to obtain solar panels for free. Video.