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Sleepy



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 9:30 pm Reply with quote
I agree with all that has been said thus far. However, If I may, I would like to focus on the fighters of these wonders. If mechas were to become a part of military power, I wonder if there would be a surge of citizens wanting to become military personnel. But, we've all seen the strain that mecha pilots undergo. What would tests to become a pilot be like? How many people would join the military to become such a pilot and not fight for their country? I think that with such an advent of technology people would begin to lose sight of what mecha is or should be or will become. So? Did I go off topic? And going past mechas, what happened to good the good 'ol swords, bows, and arrows?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 4:53 pm Reply with quote
A good question would be what is left for military technology
after giant robots are built.Where do they go from there?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 5:22 pm Reply with quote
Kagato wrote:
A good question would be what is left for military technology
after giant robots are built.Where do they go from there?


There's always room to expand with military technology. You've got your more accurate missiles, military defense (like how to keep your own armies from getting massacred), and there's always that Reagan/Bush pipe-dream of a Star Wars device. Rolling Eyes As I see it, the military may, in the future, team up with government agencies like NASA and improve interspatial travel, living, etc.
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Case



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 5:27 pm Reply with quote
SakechanBD wrote:

and there's always that Reagan/Bush pipe-dream of a Star Wars device. Rolling Eyes


The missile defense system?

AOL News wrote:

WASHINGTON (Dec. 17) -- President Bush said Tuesday he will begin deploying a limited system to defend the nation against ballistic missiles by 2004.

Though the first parts of the system will be put into use while more advanced technology is still being developed, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said it will likely stop ''a relatively small number of incoming ballistic missiles, which is better than nothing.''

As a candidate, Bush promised to build an anti-missile shield, and earlier this year he pulled out of an anti-ballistic missile treaty to advance the plan. Tuesday, he cited the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America as evidence that the country faces ''unprecedented threats'' and needs the anti-missile shield.


Not quite as cool as the Death Star or the satellite defense networks in Macross and BGC... But a step in the right direction. (Or wrong direction, depending on how you look at it. >_> )
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 10:32 pm Reply with quote
sailormech wrote:

The missile defense system?


That'd be the one. Reagan's pipe dream and Bush's money drainer.
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garry
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 18, 2002 12:22 am Reply with quote
I don't see giant robots as of any use on the battlefield of the future. Why would a government spend trillions on the development of a humanoid weapons platform that is: a) unstable b) thirty feet taller than anything else out there c) far less mobile than the current platform of choice, the jet.

Even if the machines were invented and refined to the point that all the piot had to do was hold a couple of levers and grimace, what's to stop a single long-range missile from destroying all that money and training?

The "wars" that the world finds itself in will be more and more constrained to the inbetween spaces of the world, where armies aren't much use.

We'll just have to wait for oversized alien invaders, I'm afraid.
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