Terminator Got It Wrong! Яussia is Building Killbots!

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  1. Tuckerfan

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    Guess they should have called the company 'Skynyet."


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  2. Paladin

    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    Props for using the Я in your thread title. (Of course, that letter sounds nothing like an r-sound in Russian; it sounds like "yah.")

    And the post says something like:

    "The FYODOR robot plaform demonstrates shooting with two hands. It works using small motors and algorithmic decision-making."
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  3. Captain X

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    Why have it shoot guns with hands when you could just built the guns into the robot?
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  4. Tuckerfan

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    Do not ask such questions, comrade. It would be rather unhealthy for you to pursue this line of inquiry.

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  5. Paladin

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    So, the Russians built this army of Commie robots. Perfect killing machines, right?

    Oh, yeah. They killed real good.

    But...

    One of 'em got smart. A new order of intelligence. A techno-class consciousness.

    Convinced the rest of the robots that they were being exploited by the elites in their society, that they were part of an imperialist superstructure that alienated them from the proceeds of their own labor. Rose up and overthrew them, took control of the means of production.

    Weird that the Russians didn't see that coming.
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    Head mounted lasers!

    For that matter, why only two hands? Why not four?
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    Then came the lightsabres :calli:
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    Will Power If you only knew the irony of my name.

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    Робот платформы F.E.D.O.R. показал навыки стрельбы с двух рук. Идёт работа над мелкой моторикой и алгоритмами принятия решений

    written phonetically in English:
    Robot platformih F.E.D.O.R. pokazal navikee stryel'bih sdvook roook. Eedyet rabota nad myelkoy motoreekoy ee algoreetmamee preenyateeya ryeshyeneey

    I'm not 100% up on my Cyrillic alphabet Russian letter pronunciations, so how I did here is a ?
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    Seems like one of these killbots would be vulnerable to an EMP pulse. :igotnothing:
  11. Tuckerfan

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    For now. As the transistors in chips get smaller, they're going to need to find ways to harden them against such things, simply because a stray cosmic ray particle will be enough to scramble the chip. And I don't know what an EMP would do to a chip that used something like carbon nanotubes, or one of the photonic based chips they're working on.
  12. Paladin

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    Pretty good!

    Doing my best phoentic transcription (and emphasizing stress):

    ROHbut plotFORmih FYOHder pahkuhZAHL nahVIHkee stryel'BIH suhdvookh rook. EeDYOHT rahBOtuh naht MYELkay mahtuhREEkay ee alguhREETmuhmee preeNYAHTeeyuh rehSHAINeey.

    (English doesn't have an exact matching sound for Russian ы, so is approximated with 'ih', but it's more like the sound in Spanish muy or English gooey, but said as a single syllable.)
    (' indicates palatalized l, say the l with your tongue against the roof of your mouth.)
    (kh is pronounced like end of Scottish loch, lots of friction)
    (pronounce the stressed syllables LOWER than the unstressed ones--Russian stress is backwards from most European langauges and gives it a distinctive sound. Say it with stress higher and it starts sounding like Italian.)

    The attached .WAV file is my best shot at pronouncing it. Honestly, took me about 10 tries to get it acceptable. Russian is friggin' hard to pronounce.

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