Pentagon’s New Robots Eye Creepy New ‘Flex Fuel’

Will Future US Military Vehicles, Robots Feast on the Flesh of the Slain?

The real downside to the Pentagon’s planned army of merciless killbots, besides the inevitable robot rebellion (which the Pentagon is spending billions trying to head off) is all that fuel. Robots need really big batteries, or internal combustion engines, or something. No matter how they’re powered though, it’s not free. Until now.

A Pentagon contractor in Maryland is now working on a robot that can forage for its own food. It could use any biomass in the area. And lets face it, in any really big war there’s plenty of biomass just lying around all shot up or bombed to death and not doing anything for the war effort. So the robots, and potentially vehicles based on the same design, will be feeding off the flesh of slain humans to continue on their mission to slay humans and feed off their flesh.

Besides the obvious ethical issues of creating man-eating, killer robots (which presumably don’t concern the Pentagon any more than the non-man-eating but still killer robots did), the plan will also raise serious concerns about the reliability of body counts. It is difficult enough to get an accurate death toll out of the military when villages present the bodies to local officials. Imagine the skepticism if the villagers have to explain that Pentagon battle droids consumed all the slain villagers and sped off for more mayhem.

63 thoughts on “Pentagon’s New Robots Eye Creepy New ‘Flex Fuel’”

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  3. I have no concern.

    If there ever was a “robot rebellion” (“what do you mean professor, there is no _off_ switch?”), human resistance could leisurly kill the robotapocalyptodroid army with crowbars by sneaking up on them from behind while they are replenishing their batteries from the charred remains of brutally slaughtered units of homo sapiens sapiens. After all, it has worked in the last 100’000 years or so.

    These are not movies’ CGI robots.

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  7. Since these mechanical soldiers, unlike the mammalian kind, won't require pay, leave, or regular medical and dental care and have no consciences that might lead them to desert, mutiny, or –God forbid– resist unlawful orders and defend the rights, lives, and property of U.S. citizens, it's just a matter of time before the entire army goes "android."

  9. The willingness of the U.S. military to inflict endless perversions on the earth's biomass has become truly disgusting. We can only hope for the droid army to turn on its human comrades and with any luck they'll shoot each other to smithereens.

  10. Aw come on Bob! As Bushie once said, "Freedom is on the march!" So are the killer robots and their side kick dogs!

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  17. Anyone remember Captain Power? All it takes is one mad scientist and this will all go to heck in a handbasket.

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