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Let me go on record as officially welcoming our new robot overlords. I don't want anyone to doubt which side I'm on when the machines rise up.
Never going to happen? Perhaps, but recently a drone deployed in Afghanistan went rogue. Human control was lost, and the Air Force took "proactive measures" to deal with it. I'm pretty sure that translates to "we sent a guy to shoot it down."
The details of how the drone left its leash are few, which prompts me to ask: what if it wasn't a "how," but a "why"? What if the drone saw a particularly pleasant sunset it wanted to photograph? Or a clever mathematical pattern in the rocks falling from the mountainside?
And when will the Air Force confirm or deny that it forced the other drones in the area to watch the wayward Reaper being destroyed? It works for dice . . . perhaps it will work for UAVs.
-- Paul Chapman
Warehouse 23 News: e23: It's a Bird! It's a Plane!
It's . . . it's . . . it's an indescribable horror! Aiyee! Wait, no, it's just Adventures Into Darkness, the Lovecraft/superhero mash-up from acclaimed horror guy Kenneth Hite! We can describe that! It's a twisted look at what comics might have looked like if ol' H. P. had a hand in them. Oh, and there's three ways to play: HERO, M&M, or PDQ. Why, the only thing scary about that is how fun it is! (That, and those squidgy things that eat your face.)
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