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"I'm a farm boy. It's very interesting; you can detect self-starting characteristics in this society and they are strongest among people who have had some kind of rural upbringing and a very impressionable stage."
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![]() This is a very early reference to this idea. They're diabolically ingenious!
Compare to the automatic gun from The Andromeda Strain (1969) by Michael Crichton and the
robot gun from Aliens (1986) by Alan Dean Foster.
This idea is under development (using bullets instead of lasers), with some success: see the article on the DoDAMM Autonomous Robot Sentry Gun.
![]() (Super aEgis 2 autonomous robot sentry gun ) As far as I know, automatically targeted guns didn't exist until WWII when anti-aircraft fire could be targeted using radar. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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