Surviving

[aggienaut]

   Once again it's poll time at LJI. I am at this time third-from-last in my poll, and the last person of course gets killed by an MQ-9 Reaper drone (pictured above, the Reaper drone is three times as fast as the more famous Predator and carries fifteen times as much ordnance. Such sauce!) dispatched by the LJI Administrator.
   Last week's topic was Icarus, and I as usual wrote an entry filled with Facts and Stuff and a Plausible Hypothetical Situation in which equipment-disabling biological agents might be used in the near future.
   Incidentally the morning after I finished it the yahoo headline was "Nuke Talks With Iran Fail: What Now?" ... it's happening ;)

[Poll #1671161]


   Anyway I was hoping to spark some discussion of the ethics involved. A technology that could potentially end a war with minimal loss of life due to one side's equipment being completely disabled, but on the other hand it's a biological weapon. Thoughts?

Comments

[technophobe1975.livejournal.com]

Ummm, I want one?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Haha a spy drone? The new Reaper ones are the size of a B-17 it looks like! And a lot scarier than the Predators.

But no one's taken my bait for a discussion of anti-material weapons, and you're the first to wander in here so... what do you think of the idea of using synthetic-product-eating microbes as a weapon?? :D

[technophobe1975.livejournal.com]

I have watched too many sci-fi films where stuff like this goes out of control, but provided it could be contained, then I don't see why not.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

heh. well bottom line of my entry is that there's a class of biological weapons that only effects MATERIELS and does not harm people directly. Microbes that'll eat away all the plastic or rubber bits of machines for example.

Do not know anything about transhumanism or this Wired.

[xaositecte.livejournal.com]

Drjeff and his wife make baller cupcakes.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

O_o you have experienced this??

[xaositecte.livejournal.com]

Yeah! They live over in Portland and were spamming the Damnportlanders LJ community with ads for custom-made cupcakes a while back. Eventually they just made a dedicated community for it.

pdx_cupcakes

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

how silly! Did you meet the,?

[xaositecte.livejournal.com]

I only ever bought one batch of cupcakes, although those were delicious.

Picked'em up from Jeff (His listed name is Raoul Duke, isn't that one of the characters from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?), his wife wasn't around.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think it might be. Also that's hysterical that you've independently met him. You completely independantly of eachother know quite a few people I know!

[xaositecte.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just him and Sameer so far?

We'd probably independently recognize a few MUN folks from back in the day, too. Can't think of any off the top of my head though.

[xaositecte.livejournal.com]

also you have 600+ friends on here, and Livejournal is such an incestuous community that we're bound to have a few friends in common ^_^!