Once again, just because we have the money to build these things and the dark and evil inner thoughts to conceive them, doesn’t mean we should be building them. Science Fiction writers have for years been telling horrific tales of our machines deciding that mankind is no longer needed thank you.
It’s as if money guys go to see Terminator and say, gee, we could build that! What a cool idea! In their latest folly, soon to haunt us all as we run screaming from it, arms akimbo, is the EATR robot under construction by the spectacularly well funded DARPA. EATR powers itself by eating flesh, either plant or animal. It rumbles along merrily using it’s steam based engine and when it gets hungry it scoops up Grandma or Aunt Flo in it’s giant maw and several muffled screams of agony later and now topped up, it continues barreling along doing worse evil. If that’s possible.
I suppose they want this thing to just be able to exist in the field for long periods without refueling. Even now though, in your minds eye, you see the real Science Fiction movie where these things move fast and dash out of the shadows, steam from the consumption of your neighbor streaming out it’s blowhole as it makes ready to clamp onto your favorite body part. Thanks Gizmodo for the advance warning.
