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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River
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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject: Invention Awards: Ripsaw Tank Delivers Death at 60MPH |
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Today's featured Invention Award winner really requires no justification--it's an unmanned, armed tank faster than anything the US Army has. Behold, the Ripsaw.
Cue up the Ripsaw�s greatest hits on YouTube, and you can watch the unmanned tank tear across muddy fields at 60 mph, jump 50 feet, and crush birch trees. But right now, as its remote driver inches it back and forth for a photo shoot, it�s like watching Babe Ruth forced to bunt with the bases loaded. The Ripsaw, lurching and belching black puffs of smoke, somehow seems restless.
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ThingsComeAround

Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Soon no one will be sent into combat. We will send machines to do our fighting for us... |
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UrbanStyle
Joined: 23 Jul 2009
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Then the machines shall rise up against their human masters - deem humanity unnecessary and then proceed to exterminate us. |
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wintermute
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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ThingsComeAround wrote: |
Soon no one will be sent into combat. We will send machines to do our fighting for us... |
Whenever the US comes out with some new military technology, I get a hard on just thinking about how many Iraqi, Afghan, or Palestinian civilians are going to cop it in interesting new ways.
Go the Ripsaw! |
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5600

Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Location: At an undisclosed FEMA camp.
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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I was hoping with the name "ripsaw" it would have like these big chainsaw type arms on the sides or something that would saw large goups of WTO protesters in half or something....Oh well..... |
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