News: Skynet is emminent, we're all doomed!

[Leverage87]

My second news story of the day, however this one isn't funny, just really weird and somewhat foreboding.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041018/brain.html

"A University of Florida scientist has created a living "brain" of cultured rat cells that now controls an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator.

Scientists say the research could lead to tiny, brain-controlled prosthetic devices and unmanned airplanes flown by living computers.

And if scientists can decipher the ground rules of how such neural networks function, the research also may result in novel computing systems that could tackle dangerous search-and-rescue jobs and perform bomb damage assessment without endangering humans."

Thats only part of the article of course, the thing is huge, but this really creeps me out. Anyone else see the movie 'Stealth'? I really don't want and brains that were made by people in a can knowing how to fly a fighter jet. I swear, in 20 years Ahnold clones are going to kill us all.

[Ecstatic]

And people laughed at the SF of the 1930s and 40s when these ideas were originally being developed. (Actually all the way back to Hawthorne and Shelly.)

[scroller]

Meanwhile, the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have formed a working group to have a connected database of everyone's personal data, fingerprints, and eyescans, available to law enforcement of any of those countries.

They're calling it "Server in the Sky".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,,2241005,00.html

[Leverage87]

I was not aware of the server in the sky shit... I think were all fucked. When this thing adapts and gains real sentience, its going to use our own technology against us.

Out of all the X-Files episodes, and movies I've ever seen, this is the sort of shit that stands out in my mind as feasible, and now I learn its already a partial reality, this makes me wish I was born Amish (Ok, well, not Amish, maybe Mennonite)

[Jericho]

Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.


Wot was that "Mayan" date thing again? :shock:

[Leverage87]

december of '09 isn't it?

[trish]

we have to go back in time and stop reagan from becoming president. he's the dude that started all this starwars/skinet defense shit.

when we arrive in the past we'll be completely naked. who's going with me?

[Leverage87]

I'm in, but I really don't wanna steal some homeless guy's pants when we get there.

[trish]

eeewww! i agree. but we both get really cool sunglasses from the 7-11.

[Jericho]

I'm in, but I really don't wanna steal some homeless guy's pants when we get there.


:lol: :lol: :lol:
That cracked me up.
You've thought about that *way* too much! :lol:

[El Nino]

It is a rule of thumb that the military always has technology at least 40 years ahead of what is available here in the civilian realm... So this, is nothing

[Leverage87]

Jericho, I consider pants one of my top priorities. Its always important to keep your junk out of harms way, and in a comfortable climate.

[scroller]

we have to go back in time and stop reagan from becoming president. he's the dude that started all this starwars/skinet defense shit.

when we arrive in the past we'll be completely naked. who's going with me?

With great power comes great responsibility. I'm in.

[Leverage87]

Well good, now we just have to hope that Reagan isn't some sort of super-cyborg that cannot be killed with the weapons of that time.

[Rogers]

Many scientific advances can be seen as Pandora boxes, especially when the military is involved.

Technological singularity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

[thx1138]

http://infowars.net/articles/january2008/150108Grid.htm &
http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1668