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posted by cmn32480 on Friday July 22 2016, @10:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the frickin'-rovers-with-frickin'-laser-beams dept.

So we've been blasting lasers at the poor rock-tizens of Mars from the Curiosity Rover for a while now. This is on the humans, as we decide remotely what to blast. However, according to Space.com, the Rover have now been trained to blast rocks all on its own volition. There's a reason for this as stated in the article, however one can't help but wonder if there would eventually be an "Ooops" moment where is would blast something significant by mistake when its herders aren't around.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @10:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @10:35PM (#378826)

    Shoot to kill!

    Good to see we're well on our way to creating von Neumann killbots.

    Hopefully an alien coalition will track the source of our destructive probes and exterminate us.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @11:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @11:01PM (#378834)

    First they came for the Martian rocks, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Martian rock.