A steam powered vehicle would have been extremely vulnerable to enemy fire, so you’d need to armor the large boiler to make it bulletproof (or ballproof, I guess). We’re talking about a machine made with the heavy materials of the era, plus the weight of the armor and the gun and ammunition, plus the coal required to…

No, no, no.... There are people that claim that by simply having a gun in a household, the occupants are less safe because they have the chance to accidentally shoot themselves. They’ll say the same thing about having guns on a military base, see? It makes the people there less safe because they might all accidentally…

That is correct.

This is exactly where all the resistance to AI pilots or remote pilots is coming from. The once-proud ranks of uber-elite men (and some women) known as “pilots” will be gone. Overnight. Like, as fast as camera film. And as many of the top brass in charge of making decisions about aircraft are pilots, they have…

Very well. A fighter jet that can fly itself, engage multiple targets autonomously, and take more G’s than a human can...all with no danger to a pilot?

It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

I wonder how the simulation would hold up int he real world, where the computer would have to decipher physical movements via LIDAR or similar, like autonomous cars will have to , instead of code.

I dunno.

No need to. It has been fucked since day one.

defending erections not erecting defenses

Snort asbestos fibers or be the first wave to storm the beaches of Normandy? I’ll take the asbestos.

Im skeptical (but not necessarily against) the all volunteer force, which, because Vietnam was a cluster fuck, is a bipartisan and especially military sacred cow.

The idea that we should forcibly conscript young girls into combat, to my mind, makes little or no sense.

Wait a minute. You are using the Jewish genocide as a justification for not locking up murderous jihadis?

Ah so it is ok to deny him one right, but not another?

Oh wait.... The jihadi wannabe was also known to the FBI for being a lunatic, why not start there.

There are already tons of rapists/murderers/domestic abusers out there...what’s the use making these crimes illegal?

I’ll step up by positing this. What could Trump have said instead that would have gained your support?

Ok, only because this is an aircraft article on foxtrot alpha, and therefore this is too easy....

It’s a totally legit security concern. If the voters found out how much it cost, there would be a violent revolution and all the pocket-lining generals, senators, congress-assholes, and contractors would find themselves up against the wall.