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2005-01-06 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2005-01-06 8:39:57 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is totally cool!

In Vietnam, it took about 50,000 rounds to kill a single enemy Oh please! Talk about pumping your statistics to justify cost. Who knew the soldiers in Vietnam were such lousy shots? Perhaps they should have spent less money on bullets and more on a few pairs of glasses.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-06 8:45:30 AM|| 2005-01-06 8:45:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Well if you get into firefights with empty shorelines and fire grenades at empty enbankments (and manage to stuck a small piece of metal on your arm for that purple heart....) I guess it could take that many.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-01-06 9:00:39 AM|| 2005-01-06 9:00:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 hehe wait till it gets marketed as a home security kit , build yer own advanced Meccano set .

Posted by MacNails 2005-01-06 9:02:07 AM|| 2005-01-06 9:02:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 They may have gotten that one wrong. In the Revolutionary War it took 50,000 rounds for each enemy casualty. By Vietnam, that number had risen to 2,000,000 per casualty. The assumption is that this many rounds were expended at the enemy, but that is incorrect. It is a calculation of the number of rounds expended by US forces in theater divided by known enemy casualties. This includes training and the ever-popular "expending rounds in the general direction of the enemy", which can burn up an egregious amount of bullets. (The number also jumped significantly after the invention of the machine gun.)

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-06 9:04:58 AM|| 2005-01-06 9:04:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Waiting for The AOS and the Laws of Robotics.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-06 9:10:58 AM|| 2005-01-06 9:10:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Ask and ye shall receive:

Asimov's 1940 Laws of Robotics
First Law:
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law:
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law:
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

As we all know, Bush refused to sign the Protocols of Asimov, bringing about the Rise of the Machines and the end of mankind.

Posted by Steve 2005-01-06 10:04:56 AM|| 2005-01-06 10:04:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 This must be the 21st century: we have robot lawnmowers, robot vacuum cleaners, and now robot Marines.

Posted by Mike 2005-01-06 10:51:57 AM|| 2005-01-06 10:51:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

Posted by Parabellum 2005-01-06 10:55:40 AM|| 2005-01-06 10:55:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 And the innovative hits just keep on coming...

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-06 10:56:37 AM|| 2005-01-06 10:56:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#10

Sarah Connor unavailable for comment.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-01-06 11:14:21 AM|| 2005-01-06 11:14:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Another economic advantage is that those spent 50,000 rounds cost about $25,000. The price of the initial 18 Swords is $230,000 each, but according to Foster-Miller spokesman Arnis Mangolds thatâs already been reduced to about $170,000 for the second set of 18 being made and could drop much further if manufactured on an assembly-line.

Oh hell, sell the software at $39.99 apiece and let the kiddies control them for $19.99 a month. We could actually see a profit off this war. ;)

Posted by BH 2005-01-06 11:26:21 AM|| 2005-01-06 11:26:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Why reserve all that fun for the kids?

Posted by TomAnon 2005-01-06 1:10:01 PM|| 2005-01-06 1:10:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I want one! When will they be available for the home market? :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-01-06 1:31:50 PM|| 2005-01-06 1:31:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I want one two...then I'm gonna walk downtown eastside DC, late at night and tell some drug dealers that their momma's are ugly. Just for fun.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-06 1:34:16 PM|| 2005-01-06 1:34:16 PM|| Front Page Top

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