LOL, talk about drones. All these non-Democratic nations in the UN get them to issue this thing about how drones are "DE-humanizing", since they are scared of us developing the technology, and now its the "P-correct" thing to repeat. Im scratching my head over the difference between a man plane dropping a bomb and a drone, controlled by a pilot, dropping one.
Not that I care. The only ones I give a damn about are our own troops. But Im the father of an airman and not programmed to wax philosophic over nothing.
And yes its an impressive feat of engineering. Let us hope the maturing technology will allow many more of our troops to come home in one piece after a conflict. To some of us that's important.
The more we remove ourselves from actual war and death, the more inhuman we become. It's why wars are lasting for 10 or more years now. War should be just that...war, Painful, deadly, horrible. War should be a last resort, not pre-emptive, or for imagined threats. The problem with "pure" science, ambition, whatever, is that it lacks ethics or the true consideration of the consequences, possibly off in the future. To do something just because you can, may be "cool", but often it leads to calamity. I we have this technology, now, others will, and who's gonna be the first to push the button?
