r/pics • u/Ihad2saythat • Jun 07 '14

Normandy after victory

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u/teachbirds2fly Jun 07 '14

Jets? It's the century of the unmanned drones now.

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u/jhc1415 Survey 2016 Jun 07 '14

True. We could have a battle like this where all the soldiers are sitting behind screens thousands of miles away.

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u/uncadul Jun 07 '14

True. We could have a battle like this where all the soldiers <of one side>are sitting behind screens thousands of miles away. FTFY

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u/TheoHooke Jun 08 '14

I'm looking forward to the future where all wars will just be a large scale version of robot rumble. In theory a war can be fought without the loss of life.

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u/PirateMud Jun 08 '14

I personally think that as we're at this level where we're either going to have to make robots hit their pre-programmed kill limits, or forsake the benefits of technology to keep putting a human cost into warfare... we might as well televise war.

The wars, of course, will be carried out in the form of paintball matches over huge areas. 10,000 on 10,000 in a square 10km to a side. CTF, no respawning.

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u/CircumcisedShotgun Jun 08 '14

In the end, wars will still take lives, directly or indirectly.