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Kontiki
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Canada
Aug 2001
time: 00:16
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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...tacodalogin=yes
quote:
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Gun-wielding robots could soon be patrolling the world's most heavily fortified border under a plan by South Korea's Defence Ministry to bolster its frontier with the North.
The ministry said today it will complete a feasibility study by the end of the year on building surveillance robots to be deployed along the demilitarized zone dividing the Korean Peninsula.
Plans call for the robots — along with sensor-activated alarm systems and closed-circuit TV cameras — to be installed on the 250-kilometre-long border by 2011.
"If the surveillance system by robots is effective, we may withdraw part of our troops away from the border," a ministry official said on customary condition of anonymity.
South Korea deployed two rifle-equipped robots with its 3,600 troops in Iraq.
The announcement comes just months after South Korea found holes in the wire fences in the four-kilometre-wide demilitarized zone that separates the two sides.
The discovery in October prompted fears of possible infiltration by Northern agents, but the South later concluded that an unidentified South Korean civilian cut through the fence to defect to the North. North Korea hasn't confirmed such a defection.
The border between the two Koreas remains tightly sealed after the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a ceasefire and not a peace treaty. Hundreds of thousands of troops patrol the mine-strewn demilitarized zone. |
The concept is interesting, but I find the bolded part the most intriguing. Just couldn't wait to slowly starve to death?
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:16
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Couldn't get a visa...
Travel can be such a drag...particularly if you're from a people's utopia.
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Kontiki
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Canada
Aug 2001
time: 00:16
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South Korea is a people's utopia?
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child of Thor
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maybe its just me, but the whole concept of robots with guns(or controlling guns) is not a pleasant one. It'll end in tears.
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:16
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"South Korea is a people's utopia?"
North Korea is communist, yes? That's where the escapee traveled from?
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Kontiki
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Canada
Aug 2001
time: 00:16
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No, that's where he travelled to.
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BlackCat
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Nah, Alien II proved that such thingies isn't worth anything. When they run out of ammo they are just piles of junk.
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:16
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Yes, shocking. Defecting from the south to the north. Thanks for straightening me out on that Kontiki.
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:16
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Blackcat, don't get down on those auto cannons from Aliens. That group of colonial marines found one missing child, those auto cannons could have found more...
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BlackCat
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Nope, they were fixed guns without support that just shot at something moving, and when they ran out of ammo, no more shooting.
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:16
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Kids move...
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:16
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I watched that flick with my brother and when they left the auto cannon and sealed the door I recall saying 'that should find any other kids that are lost'. It's why these Korean robots had better have human handlers or NKs seeking to escape to SK are going to start getting killed by SK robots, not good.
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:16
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"What happens if a robot malfunctions and starts shooting?"
Still, they are a slightly more stable system than a Korean...
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