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Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 3:57 pm
by MrsWargamer
Saw this video on DUST today, and I am certain you can agree, "this is scary".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW ... e9VZ_Cd_AU
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 4:09 pm
by zakblood
scfi today, is facts of tomorrow
Phasers, something from star trek?
yep, and no, nows in a weapon today, fact
Code: Select all
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a29198555/phaser-weapon-air-force/
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:56 pm
by Lobster
What would an emp pulse do to them?
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 7:58 pm
by IslandInland
IMO scary is when not everyone on the planet in 2019 doesn't have access to clean drinking water.
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 7:58 pm
by MrsWargamer
Well, likely as much as it would do to everything else
. Not an ideal solution.
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 9:51 pm
by Lobster
But if you have 1 million drones killing off your population or your troops a blanket solution is about all there is. I wonder how much it would cost to build a Faraday Cage big enough for me my wife and my cats to live in. Hmmm.
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 10:36 pm
by MrRoadrunner
You'd still be living in a cage?
RR
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 11:52 pm
by Lobster
Only till the drones were dead from the EMP. [8D]
Maybe a tin foil hat would work.
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 12:24 am
by Twotribes
I doubt the drones could be emp proof but it is possible to make power sources EMP proof.
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:10 am
by Kuokkanen
ORIGINAL: IslandInland
IMO scary is when not everyone on the planet in 2019 doesn't have access to clean drinking water.
Has there ever been a time when everyone had clean drinking water?
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 3:35 am
by IslandInland
ORIGINAL: Kuokkanen
ORIGINAL: IslandInland
IMO scary is when not everyone on the planet in 2019 doesn't have access to clean drinking water.
Has there ever been a time when everyone had clean drinking water?
That precludes no one else having it?
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 3:58 pm
by Kuokkanen
It just occurred to me that one of the Hammer's Slammers stories has equipment like that. Except drones in it each has a gun (powergun, 1 cm caliber). Those were brought in by local mafia boss. One of the Hammer's agents hacked control and cleaned the town.
If anyone ever proposes selling that crap to public for anyone to buy like hunting rifles, he should be told in LOUD VOICE that those drones can be used against him.
ORIGINAL: IslandInland
ORIGINAL: Kuokkanen
ORIGINAL: IslandInland
IMO scary is when not everyone on the planet in 2019 doesn't have access to clean drinking water.
Has there ever been a time when everyone had clean drinking water?
That precludes no one else having it?
It has been claimed that in time of Middle Ages, there was a place without good drinking water. All people there drank beer, even children. It has even been claimed that there wasn't drinking water anywhere and everyone drank beer everywhere. Of course the second claim isn't true but mistaken(?) exaggeration of the first.
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 7:48 pm
by Lobster
ORIGINAL: Kuokkanen
It just occurred to me that one of the Hammer's Slammers stories has equipment like that. Except drones in it each has a gun (powergun, 1 cm caliber). Those were brought in by local mafia boss. One of the Hammer's agents hacked control and cleaned the town.
If anyone ever proposes selling that crap to public for anyone to buy like hunting rifles, he should be told in LOUD VOICE that those drones can be used against him.
ORIGINAL: IslandInland
ORIGINAL: Kuokkanen
Has there ever been a time when everyone had clean drinking water?
That precludes no one else having it?
It has been claimed that in time of Middle Ages, there was a place without good drinking water. All people there drank beer, even children. It has even been claimed that there wasn't drinking water anywhere and everyone drank beer everywhere. Of course the second claim isn't true but mistaken(?) exaggeration of the first.
Uhm...you need water to make beer soooo....
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 5:51 am
by ncc1701e
Genuinely scary is the term indeed! Thanks for sharing MrsWargamer!!!
RE: Genuinely scary (it's fiction at the moment).
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:40 pm
by Saint Ruth
That's good. It's a bit like Black Mirror's 'Hated In The Nation", which is worth a watch!
