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Posted By Ratskii 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyEATR - DARPA's Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot re: Philip Reeve on 1/31/2009: Science Fiction in the News -- See Philip K. Dick's story, Second Variety.
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Ratskii3 months, 2 weeks ago
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I don't know how many of you are familiar with Philip K Dick and his story, Second Variety. It was eventually made into a movie called Screamers. The robot in this story has me seriously wondering if Dick was a prophet.
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They say it will only seek vegetable matter to sustain itself, but I'm left wondering what its method is of determining the difference between vegetable matter and animal (human) matter? Even if the coding is fool proof, I wonder also, how easy would it be for a hacker to change it?-
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CRYMTYPHON3 months, 1 week ago
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For those who have not read Second Variety:
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the world is a gray ash wasteland of a battlefield
after long war between the Russian's and the Americans;
The americans have developed crab-like robots that
eat anyone who does not have a protection key;
but there are rumours of more advanced
models, able to disguise themselves as humans.
And they don't give a rip if you have a protection key or not.
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Ratskii3 months, 1 week ago
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Here's a short trailer from the movie screamers. Note that they have the movie taking place on a planet of another star. In Dick's story, the action takes place on Earth. The movie has an optomistic ending, but Dick's novelette Has the machines winning.
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