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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    08/12/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    War will eventually get to the point that these UAV's will be so scary looking, no one will want to piss us off.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    Where do they get such wonderful toys?
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    Image of secretmission secretmission
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    Totally cylon-ic. Can we get an interior shot (i.e. its organic guts)?
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    Image of SalilaNumskis SalilaNumskis
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    That's way better than having a music or art program at my son's school.
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment SalilaNumskis was starred SalilaNumskis was unstarred
    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    Bult by Cyberdyne systems?
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    Image of disatess disatess
    08/11/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: your not kidding.
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    When did Apple start making planes?
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    Image of Sam Sam
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    If it's unmanned why does it have a cockpit? Or windscreen? Or is that an air intake shaped like a windscreen?
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    Gann promoted this comment Sam was starred Sam was unstarred
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    08/11/09

    @Sam: If I had to guess, I'd say it's the air intake for the engines, doubling as a radar shroud for the sensor array.
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    Image of Briareosdx Briareosdx
    08/11/09

    @Sam: It's where you put the back-and-forth strobing red LED.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    08/11/09

    @Sam: Look at the zoomed in version, it's an intake.
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    Image of Starlionblue Starlionblue
    08/11/09

    @Skunky:
    It is indeed the air intake. At the top for stealth and noise suppression (relative to the ground). Also in a good location normally taken up by the fleshbag controller.
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    Image of Johnny Dactyl Johnny Dactyl
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    Wasn't this on Eureka last week?
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    Roklimber promoted this comment Johnny Dactyl was starred Johnny Dactyl was unstarred
    Image of PVIII PVIII
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    Is it bad that I think "Michael Bay should film that blowing shit up"? Well, actually, dont answer that; I know it's bad, but I don't care.
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    Image of regis regis
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    is it wrong that i think that's kinda sexy looking?
    if it is, don't tell me. because, frankly, that's pretty sexy hardware, right there.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    08/11/09

    @regis: If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/11/09

    @regis: I think it might mean you're a cylon.
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    Image of pfc.joker pfc.joker
    08/11/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Nah they are just smart, when the machines become sentient before they attack they will likely visit the io9 and review past posts when deciding target priority lists...
    Very Sexy (please don't blow me up).
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/11/09

    @pfc.joker: Well, while you’re living in luxury, serving your new robot overlords I’ll be fighting in the resistance, living off of old shoe leather and mouldy cat food . . . so there . . . .
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    Image of pantsonfireliarliar pantsonfireliarliar
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    Cylony! They seriously need red LEDs if only to induce fear.

    I'm imagining 3-4 of these patrolling some hostile territory. How creepy would that be?
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    Hmmm. That's pretty clever.
    Building a UAV that looks too awesome to shoot down...
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    Image of sakeido sakeido
    08/11/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye:
    "Hakim, quickly, the rockets!"
    "But our rockets are too ugly, too unworthy, to mar its gentle black skin!"
    "Indeed."
    /hakim and friend
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    08/12/09

    @sakeido: Oh, man, I wish I could promote this again.
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    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was starred braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was unstarred
    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    Has anyone seen Stealth......No, thought as much. Wait till the thing turns sentient..haha
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    Image of Briareosdx Briareosdx
    08/11/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my...: Not a problem, the same movie and every other movie about military robots has shown us what to do. Once we teach it to love or show it the meaning of humanity it becomes useless as a weapon. Dang fool thing will probably sacrifice itself to save a blonde or something.
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    Image of Hades_Kane Hades_Kane
    08/11/09

    In reply to The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
    And here I thought for a moment we were looking at a post about the rumored Flight of the Navigator remake...
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