I have a fascination with implements of destruction. I've read recently of new autonomous battlefield robots capable of harvesting organic matter to repair and sustain themselves. We are reassured by their creators that they will only harvest plants.
Now, plants do really well on a battlefield, don't they? The grainy images of the Somme depict only too well the ability of trees etc. to withstand artillery bombardment and trench warfare.
The Iraqi desert is blooming, no? The high mountains of afghanistan are full of plants, trees and fields of grasses(some are eh?).
I can't help but think there is a 'terror' aspect to these weapons, and that in practice 100lbs of dead flesh on a battlefield is going to be a lot easier/more efficient to source than a tree.
Anyone? Moral and philosophical implications?
Now, plants do really well on a battlefield, don't they? The grainy images of the Somme depict only too well the ability of trees etc. to withstand artillery bombardment and trench warfare.
The Iraqi desert is blooming, no? The high mountains of afghanistan are full of plants, trees and fields of grasses(some are eh?).
I can't help but think there is a 'terror' aspect to these weapons, and that in practice 100lbs of dead flesh on a battlefield is going to be a lot easier/more efficient to source than a tree.
Anyone? Moral and philosophical implications?
''Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.'' Robert Oppenheimer
