Tensor |
Cyborgs! A human brain in a metal-machine body -- these guys can fly into space, and defend earth before the aliens reach our lands.
First step: experimenting with rat brains -
.................... > Robots controlled by neurons from a rat's brain <
.................... > Robot with a rat brain <
Urizen |
I read that this morning. I'm quite curious if they'll ever bother to find out if it is indeed some form of space junk or an asteroid with a trajectory similar to earth's. It's interesting to know that these can be detected two days before an alleged possible impact.
That reminds me; I just saw an issue of National Geographic at B&N the other day and they had a cover story on humans and robotics aka - cyborg possibilities. I've been meaning to pick that up in the hopes that it'll accompany awesome photographs that they're known for.
Tensor |
Aliens tried to wack us with a rock!
Who is working on the shield generators??
Since, aliens may have tried to >wack us with another meteorite< , I think renewed focus on creating alien fighting technology along with a bump in funding is called for.
Tensor |
In a recent news article, Stephen Hawking says trying to contact space aliens is 'too risky'.
"...advance life-forms may be "nomads, looking to conquer and colonize."
He is smart enough to know that if aliens come for us now, we'll end up being their pets.
"Their arrival, he says, would be like Columbus landing in the Americas, "which didn't turn out out very well for the Native Americans."
We need develop technology NOW to fight aliens... soon!
Freehold DM |
In a recent news article, Stephen Hawking says trying to contact space aliens is 'too risky'.
"...advance life-forms may be "nomads, looking to conquer and colonize."
He is smart enough to know that if aliens come for us now, we'll end up being their pets.
"Their arrival, he says, would be like Columbus landing in the Americas, "which didn't turn out out very well for the Native Americans."
We need develop technology NOW to fight aliens... soon!
I support this only if it means epic space battles and/or giant robots. Particularly if they transform.
Tensor |
Ok, this young lad is working on easy to use >hand-held lasers< .
At this level of effectiveness we have blinding rays. Or, perhaps if the alien invaders take the form a gas filled pods we will be able to *pop* them.
Keep up the good work.
Tensor |
b]YOU ONLY HASTEN THE INEVITABLE.[/b]
Remember the motto of the Boy Scouts of America?
Be Prepared.
That's the motto of the Boy Scouts.
"Be prepared for what?" someone once asked Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting,
"Why, for any old thing." said Baden-Powell.
The training you receive in your troop will help you live up to the Scout motto. When someone has an accident, you are prepared because of your first aid instruction. Because of lifesaving practice, you might be able to save a nonswimmer who has fallen into deep water.
But Baden-Powell wasn't thinking just of being ready for emergencies. His idea was that all Scouts should prepare themselves to become productive citizens and to give happiness to other people. He wanted each Scout to be ready in mind and body for any struggles, and to meet with a strong heart whatever challenges might lie ahead.
Be prepared for life - to live happily and without regret, knowing that you have done your best. That's what the Scout motto means.
. . . including defending Earth from alien invasion.
Crimson Jester |
One-Of-Many wrote:b]YOU ONLY HASTEN THE INEVITABLE.[/b]Remember the motto of the Boy Scouts of America?
Be Prepared.That's the motto of the Boy Scouts.
"Be prepared for what?" someone once asked Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting,
"Why, for any old thing." said Baden-Powell.
The training you receive in your troop will help you live up to the Scout motto. When someone has an accident, you are prepared because of your first aid instruction. Because of lifesaving practice, you might be able to save a nonswimmer who has fallen into deep water.
But Baden-Powell wasn't thinking just of being ready for emergencies. His idea was that all Scouts should prepare themselves to become productive citizens and to give happiness to other people. He wanted each Scout to be ready in mind and body for any struggles, and to meet with a strong heart whatever challenges might lie ahead.
Be prepared for life - to live happily and without regret, knowing that you have done your best. That's what the Scout motto means.
. . . including defending Earth from alien invasion.
My Son's Scout troop would agree.
Tensor |
The coming alien invaders may turn our cities into rubble, but our robot defenders will be able to quietly >crawl through the debris< into their head quarters for a counter-attack.
Spanky the Leprechaun |
They don't need missiles.
Just tow and drop asteroids on us until the extinction event is over.
Follow that with biological weaponry genetically engineered from our common cold virus to rupture our alveoli to get the last few tough guys hidden under a mountain holdfast. OR leave them around to shoot for sport, makes no difference.
Best hope is we are extremely uninteresting and we are hidden in space's vastness, or maybe they're either nice or don't need stuff.
We have no stuff you can't get somewhere else cheaper. Mountain sized gold asteroids in our belt that they can simply take. Who needs earth?
Our best hope to fight them is to learn to play dead and be stinky.
The opossum has the wisdom to do this, follow the wisdom of grandfather opossum.
Hope they are more like a Yuppie Nature Lover out on a nature hike than 6 bored drunken twentysomething deathfreaks when they finally stumble across us. Play dead. Play stinky.
Propagate the species.
IDK, maybe we can be their dogs.
Dog has the wisdom to do this, follow the wisdom of grandfather dog.
Sharoth |
Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:They don't need missiles.
Just tow and drop asteroids on us until the extinction event is over.
...I know. This is why we must build our defenses.
>THIS< tawdry display of space faring ability is the best humans can do right now.
I agree with you Tensor. Our space faring program could be so much better. ~sighs~ Maybe in another 20 to 50 years.
Tensor |
> This exoskeleton < is a good beginning step. It will be good for close up in-fighting with the alien attackers. Kinda like how >Ripley battled the alien< b$&~* queen..
Tensor |
We'll play nice at first, but let's be ready to kick some alien butt.
>video link< *****
Tonight on the CBS news, the broadcaster said, "This just in, a planet assumed to be capable of supporting life has been discovered. I guess this means if we wreck this planet we can always go there."
STUPID IDIOT!!!
What if someone is there already, and they have already wrecked that planet, and once they see our planet they will come here!!! And wreck our planet.
Dorje Sylas |
Actually we'll find out once we get there that we already did mess that one up and fled to this one. With the plan that with general relativity and the time it takes to mess up this one would have let our last home recover. Then 50,000 years plus relatvisic time later well have messed that one up again and come back here. While the rest of galactic civilization laughes at the stupid monkey people swinging from planet to planet.