Stupid human race

[gavroche]

I have just read that the US is spending billions on a robot that can hunt and kill by itself. No doubt other countries are also doing the same. Meanwhile, thousands die each day of cancer and other dreadful diseases. I hope beings on other planets are not as stupid as we are.

 

[MontyVeda]

I have read that they're spending quite a lot of dosh on cancer research and other dreadful diseases... meanwhile, folk post stuff on the interweb.

 

[gavroche]

I have read that they're spending quite a lot of dosh on cancer research and other dreadful diseases... meanwhile, folk post stuff on the interweb.

That news is from The New York Times.

 

[jonny jeez]

I have read that they're spending quite a lot of dosh on cancer research and other dreadful diseases... meanwhile, folk post stuff on the interweb.

True.

But you can't deny that we do have an extraordinary appetite to kill one another.

 

[gavroche]

[QUOTE 4533455, member: 9609"]One day we will visit other planets and no doubt we will kill and exploit everything on them - it is what makes us human.[/QUOTE]
That day is a long way away. We will probably be extinct before it happens.

 

[jonny jeez]

That day is a long way away. We will probably be extinct before it happens.

But none the less inevitable .

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That day is a long way away. We will probably hopefuly be extinct before it happens.

FTFY.

 

[ufkacbln]

[QUOTE 4533455, member: 9609"]One day we will visit other planets and no doubt we will kill and exploit everything on them - it is what makes us human.[/QUOTE]


Especially with the Americans in the lead

 

[rich p]

True.

But you can't deny that we do have an extraordinary appetite to kill one another.

Speak for yourself. I'm just a cuddly old thing who loves everyone.

 

[srw]

I have just read that the US is spending billions on a robot that can hunt and kill by itself. No doubt other countries are also doing the same. Meanwhile, thousands die each day of cancer and other dreadful diseases. I hope beings on other planets are not as stupid as we are.

I think this is the report you're referring to.
http://www.afr.com/technology/robot...n-pose-a-dilemma-for-pentagon-20161025-gsam4o

$18bn over 3 years on various military technologies, include robot killers.

Meanwhile you might want to review this table:
https://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx

Annual US spending on cancer: over $6bn. Or $18bn over 3 years. Plus the same again on each of biotech and neuroscience and genetics, twice as much on unspecified clinical research, nearly as much on infectious disease, two-thirds as much on women's health, half as much on HIV and AIDS and on Paediatrics and on aging - and many many more I haven't mentioned. And that's just in the US.

LIke you I think that any pound spent on military research is a pound wasted - although I have to acknowledge that some of those pounds have civilian applications (I do, after all, use GPS). But it helps before ranting to get facts straight.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Couldn't they take all the money given to these foreign refugee types and other sorts of scroungers and invest it in military technology instead?

 

[Beebo]

[QUOTE 4533644, member: 9609"]I somehow doubt we will manage to roam the planet for a 150 million years like the dinosaurs achieved - a mere 50,000 years since modernity and it is starting to go seriously pear shaped. We could well turn out to be the most unsuccessful species of all time.[/QUOTE]
It depends how you define success.
I'm sure dinosaurs spent most of their time trying to kill each other and protect their territory, it is what every species on earth does.
We are just very good at it, sadly.

 

[Drago]

I have just read that the US is spending billions on a robot that can hunt and kill by itself. No doubt other countries are also doing the same. Meanwhile, thousands die each day of cancer and other dreadful diseases. I hope beings on other planets are not as stupid as we are.

is it not a good thing that a robot can hunt and kill without endangering it's operator? So long as there are the likes of Hitler, Mussolini or Blair in this planet then it's not a bad tool to have.

 

[ColinJ]

is it not a good thing that a robot can hunt and kill without endangering it's operator? So long as there are the likes of Hitler, Mussolini or Blair in this planet then it's not a bad tool to have.

And then some ISIS hacker works out how to take over the control network and orders the robots to kill infidels instead ...

 

[Dave7]

Well you lot may be extinct in X years but I trust that us Scoucers will find a way to beat the system