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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Enter Anti SPAM Code: Click here to refresh this page Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by camelot[/i] [br]I guess there are still plenty of ways to wipe us out even with the cold war over.... [blue]Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14 We're not used to thinking of them this way. But many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic -- picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger. Most of the time. Once in a while, though, these machines start firing mysteriously on their own. The South African National Defence Force "is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday."[/blue] At http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki.html And of course the always popular misloading of actual nuclear weapons on a training flight by the US..... [blue]Washington - Several US Air Force officers have been stripped of their command because of major lapses in procedures that led to the accidental transport of nuclear weapons on a flight across the United States, a US general said Friday.[/blue] http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/127365.html Upddate here http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/nuclear_mistake [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.