Enjoy (T)alk (L)ike (A) (R)obot (D)ay = T.L.A.R.D.

2nd annual T.L.A.R.D. - 10/10/08 - 10:10:10am - 10:10:10pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7mDkmWvyw

"...two uninhabited aircraft will now mate with one another in flight."

Surely that's "uninhibited", yes?

I, for one, welcome our new flying sex-droid overlords.

I for one welcome our autonomous flying probulating overlords.

Paris, because I bet she'd like an automated probe.

>They will steer themselves in on final approach by tracking a glowing infrared ring on the offered receptacle

And so will the missile with the IR tracking head?

Surely giving machines--with the capability of killing people--the ability to procreate is yet another step closer to Armageddon...

Paris because...well...you know...

Velcro-tipped condoms for coupling a drunk with a fat bird.

We've all done it.

Right, where's me pint...

... to completely automating most "dumb operator" actions in the military, even the ones that require "skill". Computers and robots can do it faster and better - as long as all necessary sensor data can be quickly captured, decisions can be coded in a lookup table or desribed by an algorithm, and there is a basic stimulus-response relationship.

Hmmm. So, I wonder how long it will be before Navy Warfare Officers are relaced by computers, then ....

Hmm, if there are six-foot robots flying around programmed to shove probes into hot rings, I think I'll lay off the curry for a while.

Pretty humdrum, if you ask me. Just pop it in, pump quickly, disengage, and fly off. What is the world coming to?

Paris because, well, you can probably guess...

Did anyone else notice that the "tanker" in the concept video looked identical to the docking vehicle apart from the fact it had no obvious means of propulsion. Possibly because that craft has a rear prop, and they didn't want to draw attention to the fact that they were planning on trying to stick a fuel nozzle into a basket mere inches from a whirling prop.

Sounds like fun :)

Watch that one folks, it's truly superb.

Robots coupling in mid-air? Is this the new Transformers film? Will there be a Playmobile diorama of them shagging over a New York skyline while Maximus Prime rages and destroys all before him 'cos some one has nicked his bird?

Waiting for a suitable Twat-O-Tron '"I'm burning all my son's Transformer toys to stop him re-enacting the scene." comment. (yeah, but at least it's not this cross-species sex like in Barbarella)

Now all we need them to do is teach them to extract and refine the oil without our help and they won't need us any more! (well, until they break down)

So they've automated willy-waving then?

Paris, automatically.

...until they install the R2 unit.

If you're looking for an analogy, it'll be the aerial equivalent of a St Bernard (the tanker) trying to be shagged by a particularly vicious terrier (the fighter/weapon), in a bob-sleigh.

Isn't true (robotic) love great?

Maybe they could call it Radar Love?