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"Generally, the human race avoids doing anything radical until forced into it."
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In the film, Jack Ramsay of the Runaway squad chases after malfunctioning robots. However, evil mastermind Charles Luther has an advanced weapon prototype - a gun that shoots smart bullets.
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Here's the oversized gun that fires the smart bullet.
![]() (The gun that shoots the smart bullet) The final feature of the device is that it targets individual people by looking at their body heat signature.
![]() (Targeting system uses your personal heat signature) Compare to the magnetic shell from The Great Stone of Shardis (1897) by Frank Stockton, the atomic bomb from The World Set Free (1914) by HG Wells, the atomic shell from Buck Rogers: 2430 AD (1929) by Nowlan and Calkin, the roving bomb from Lost Rocket (1941) by Manly Wade Wellman, the Wabbler from The Wabbler (1942) by Murray Leinster and the planet-busting bomb from Testing (1956) by JJ Ferat. See also the micro-missiles from Invader on my Back by Phillip High. Comment/Join this discussion ( 4 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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