How effective would it be to drop subterranean, self replicating robots around, that kill anything with a heartbeat, but you give good guys, like a watch or something that hid them from the robots?
How effective would it be to drop subterranean, self replicating robots around, that kill anything with a heartbeat, but you give good guys, like a watch or something that hid them from the robots?
I swear I saw a 1980's or 1990's scifi movie with a similar plot.
something about one side deploying sand robots during a civil war, it backfired and they take over the planet.
It's a bad movie but it's super creepy. Saw it for the first time at 4am at my uncle's house.
"Screamers", with Peter Weller from Robocop. Inspired by a scifi short story by Philip k Dick, "Second Variety".
How good is it compared to the short story?
The movie is amazing
Screamers. Saw it when I was a kid, still freaks me out to this day.
Amazing idea. Now, you just have to invent the robot.
Congratulations, you killed all sources of meat
you must be confusing me with someone who gives a shit
Oh shit, take your radiation reds!
Fund it
mimetic polyalloy hands typed these posts
I wouldn't worry about it.
how about i detonate some underground emp to make all the robots dead or turn off everyones watches.
also is the weilders of such a weapon loose track of even one bot, things could get messy.
>self replicating, means whoever stole/found one now has an army
>can be deployed above ground for cataclysmic results
>our government has already misplaced 32 or so nukes
id catch one in a pickle jar, go above ground and demand 1 million dallerinos or id open the jar.
or id just put it on my desk and use a magnet on a stick to play with it.
>EMP traveling through the ground
>implying they aren't shielded
actually, I don't think they are. One of the points of Dick's novel was that in the end, the "human" screamers were carrying anti-screamer grenades, to kill each other.
>underground emp
So landmines but worse?
You could make a robot that hunts those robots near whatever resource deposits they use to replicate.
Copy from nature, everything has a predator, except the food chain alpha!
Carozzo pls, therapy is cheaper.
Think of your hot space prince son
Whose exact idea was it to create the Bugs, anyway? Carrozo's father-in-law?
Is it sharp enough?
>self replicating
Stopped reading right there.
Chinese or Russians would make a cheap knockoff copy without any of the IFF or safety protocols and Earth would become uninhabitable.
>USA invents G-series nerve gas that renders itself inert and safe after 4 hours
>Soviets make VX and Sarins that last indefinitely unless broken down by weeks of UV or strong chemicals
>US drops air-scattered mines that render themselves inert/safe after a few days
>Soviets copy the air mines, but they never go inert
>but you give they good guys, like a watch or something, that hides them from the robots
>be me
> on an underground raid on an enemy hideout
>told to attack at 4:10am
>waiting
>look down at my handy dandy little watch/friendly identifier
>it's dead
>underground, so no sun to recharge
>suddenly hear ominous buzzing in the walls
I like this idea
Looks kinda like a bakugan
>sweeping through ruins
>find girl hiding
>lead her through the wasteland, protecting her from deathbots and enemy corpo-soldiers
>finally find safety
>lean in for a kiss
>a meat grinder emerges from her mouth and rips my face off
Better than clownworld, I guess
Can I come with you?
David spooked the shit out of me as a kid, maybe it's time to rewatch it
>what if I did a grey goo
World ending.
Their was a book about why this isn't a great idea.
Uncultured swine
More than one book, actually. (and author)
Bye civilians, bye bye, BYE.
And the enemy doesnt have to frick with these, just frick with the watches, this is just a more advanced version of claymore roomba, its funny but you just cant put it anywhere near you.
The civilians would be pretty much dead or conscripted.
Just pray your Apple Watch doesn't break or try to update but break or run out of battery or get hacked by a Chinese spyware gang.
Sounds like a 10/10 idea anon, you work on that Imma go to the the moon and watch.
This is an asimov or k dick short story
they'll evolve you know
mistakes will be made in the replication process over time just like natural selection