• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Military grade weapons are immune to EM pulses. They are shielded and have EM sensors to shut down the exposed sensors during the EM pulse so nothing is effected. That is like a surge surpressor, they can watch for the leading edge of a spike and shut down before damage, then switch back on a millisecond later after the EM pulse is gone.

    Source: While in university I had a part time job working for a defense contractor. Weapons had an “operate through” checkbox on the CDRL that needed to be validated. “Operate through” meant Operate through a nuclear em pulse. If the military was building missiles 20 years ago that could fly through an EM pulse from a megaton nuclear airburst, your home-made EM cannon will do nothing to military grade robots.

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      3 days ago

      20 years ago we were also making cars with doors that could open but the billionaires seem to be having trouble with that one

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        That’s because those cars are for you to drive, not them. No expense will be spared for their murderbots.

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          If that’s the case you loop right back around to more of us than them. If each robot is heavily overbuilt then it become far too expensive to make enough to subdue the population

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            If each robot is heavily overbuilt then it become far too expensive to make enough to subdue the population

            They have infinite money to pay for them because the money to build them comes from the workers. But really a surge suppressor added to a device is pennies in mass production. If EM pulse was actually effective, Russia would be using it to stop Ukraine’s robots.

            https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-robotic-systems-russia-army-positions-ukraine

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              Infinite money can only do so much with finite workers and finite resources.

              Unless they begin amassing for a long long time before doing anything cost will be an issue.

              Think of it like Iranian drones vs. the iron dome. The dome does stop most of them, but eventually the cost of iron dome missiles will cause the system to fail

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                2 days ago

                If you are that worried about money the absurd part is millions of $50k robots, not a $1 surge suppressor added to prevent an EMP from hurting electronics.