As long as hardware is not acting fully autonomously it is usually sufficient to address the soft targets, especially unprotected noncombatants at home. Self-replicating weapons are best, which for now means engineered pathogens. Things are bound to become pretty dynamic once we'll get free-environment capable artificial molecular self-replicators fielded against people and supporting ecologies.
It is difficult to see humanity confined to this planet surviving it, given our neolithical firmware. Anyone aware of a nonnegligible military R&D in offensive/defensive ecovorous nano? On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Bill Stewart wrote: > It's called a "radio".... Needs some auxiliary equipment :-) > but loose lips sink ships. > Mines are pretty cheap, too, if you can attach them, but it probably > needs quite a few of them to sink that big a ship. > I agree that a low-cost aircraft-carrier-killer would help; > the Stinger missiles sure made a major difference to Russian > military activities in Afghanistan.
