• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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      Well, at least there isn’t a narcissistic tech-billionaire around who doesn’t care about human lives and is closely associated with the government.

  • Gerowen@lemmy.world
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    There’s a whole video game series on why this is a terrible idea. (Horizon Zero Dawn)

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      I think this is actually a real thing, but from like 10 years ago.

      edit, there was a DARPA project that created a robot that could consume biomass as fuel, its acronym is EATR. According to wikipedia, it could “only” consume certain types of vegetation. But in the initial proposal, the developers also proposed chicken fat. So honestly, this probably exists and there might be a version of it that can consume meat.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot

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        Phew. Chicken fat doesn’t seem very good, as we have enough meat eating already, but man a robot that runs on lettuce would be cool!

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      Awww I wanted it to gurgle blood in its wood chipper/mouth/head removal proboscis while it giggled through its speakers and says I Bring You Love, you know to attract more fuel.

      It’s been a trying day.

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    “At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus“

  • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Bitch do you know what happens in Horizon where they make SELF REPLICATING SELF THINKING ROBOTS THAT CONSUME BIOMATTER AS FUEL

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    iirc this was just an engine that could run on most combustible hydrocarbons, a small gas turbine and some elaborate digestion setup I seem to remember, and the press really stretched a badly worded explanation of how it worked into ‘it eats corpses’. Which is fair, humans are mostly made from tasty biomass, but still.

    edit: here’s a couple sources about it, it sounds like it does indeed run on vegetable biomass.