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QUOTE(firedauz @ Jul 13 2009, 10:50 PM)
I quote of Einstein's regret news:
Often I kept wondering, aliens will never invade such a dangerous planet like Earth where we are pointing our own weapons at ourselves.
Perhaps there will never be unity among all humans at all forever.
Again I quote from Einstein,
"... so long as there are men, there will be war.."Can there possibly be anything else more powerful and dangerous than the atomic bomb?Of course there is, we just never caught glimpse of it yet.
To say powerful and dangerous, is quite subjective.
There are more than hundreds of categories of it, ranging from long range, to close-combat, to aerial, to land, to sea, to space, to psychological, to anything else unimaginable.
This is an open discussion on the current military weapons from all over the world and what lies in the future.
What has science done to us?!
Anti-Matter bombs. Not yet made because we can't mass produce anti-matter yet and we don't have practical means of storing anti-matter.
In the future, I'm very certain that humans will no longer go to war directly. I believe we will go to war using legions of robots ranging from AI robots to robots that are controlled by humans. The most probable transition I can foresee is robots accompanying and aiding humans and eventually battalions of robots going to war with semi-AI capability and controlled by controllers from a distance.
Already we're seeing technologies like Global Hawk, Ripsaw MS1, SWORDS and BigDog. I'm especially impressed with Global Hawk and Ripsaw, they have a great potential in replacing conventional ground troops, but not yet for special ops.
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QUOTE(befitozi @ Jul 14 2009, 04:20 AM)
I strongly believe the existence of the nuclear bomb isn't a bad thing, in fact it may be the main reason the world as we know it now isn't in a total world war.
Consider this, during the Cold War if there wasn't a nuclear deterrent the US and Soviets would have engaged in conventional warfare many many times over. The idea of MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction, is scary enough to deter either side from starting a war. It would be easier to NOT go to war and stay in peace then go to war and try to avoid using nukes.
Consider the amount of human fatalities in the hands of nukes compared to all the automated firearm technology which was based on the Gatling gun, nuclear weapons aren't as terrible as it seems.
Nukes aside, i would think the biggest threat that we have in terms of weapons are biological weapons and IEDs, the latter coupled with fanatics/psychos is a very real threat today.
On a side note, even a pencil is deadly in the hands of wrong people.
Yup, I agree with this. The threat of a nuclear attack is strong enough to prevent a war, but the danger is that nuclear weapons can be misused by lunatics like Kim Jong-il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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QUOTE(Irishcoffee @ Jul 14 2009, 12:15 PM)
why not?
human oledi over population which being a threat to this planet
nuclear weapon is the best , fast and efficient way to reduce human population
Nuclear weapons = fallout = inhospitable/contaminated land = less place to live as fallout can go very far if there's a wind or ground water
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QUOTE(chewchew @ Jul 14 2009, 08:42 PM)
who cares about war????????!!!
if there's a war at the place tat u r residing, then move away lah...wat for wait to be bomb??>>
anyway...we wun live forever, so if humans wanna fight, let them fight lah...let our children of the future fight among themselves and self-destruct lah...
wat for care so much when u dun even live forever at all???!!...
this issue is like discussing about the environemtn...
how to move away whem airports are closed, no flights in or out, ships blocked borders closed, etc?
anyway, why is this thread going into how bad war is and etc? Isn't this about weapons and tech?
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