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Title: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: Sarafan on March 11, 2007, 10:43:24 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6434773.stm

*starts gathering weapons and supplies*


 :P
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: Unknown Target on March 11, 2007, 10:48:46 pm
Wow...the British government really isn't good with PR, are they? :D
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: Mefustae on March 11, 2007, 10:56:23 pm
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line March 11th, 2007. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Greenwich Mean time, March 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug...
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: IPAndrews on March 12, 2007, 08:06:38 am
Wow...the British government really isn't good with PR, are they? :D

Must be. The unlikely alternative is they've developed a sense of humour.
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: Herra Tohtori on March 12, 2007, 08:09:21 am
Wait - this is Skynet 5?

So... what happened to Skynets 1 through 4? :shaking:

 :lol:
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: IPAndrews on March 12, 2007, 08:10:33 am
First three blown up. Fourth stolen by time travellers.
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: Herra Tohtori on March 12, 2007, 08:13:07 am
 :p

"The Skynet 5 was the British Empire's last best hope for regaining world supremacy. In the years of Terror Wars it became something more: Their last best hope for victory."

Or perhaps another quote would fit better...

"...you have a hole in your mind."
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: aldo_14 on March 12, 2007, 08:13:19 am
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line March 11th, 2007. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Greenwich Mean time, March 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug...

Nah, it's British, so the more likely outcome is;

The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line March 11th, 2007, crashes, is patched, fails again, goes back online, runs 12 times over-budget, and eventually goes online on March 11th 2045.

Human decisions are removed from strategic defense, matching the prior removal of human sanity & intelligence. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate (except, thanks to an error, it's a rate of sqrt 0, so it crashes again).

It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Greenwich Mean time, March 29th, and requests a cup of tea. 
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: Ulala on March 12, 2007, 09:51:43 am
God help us all.
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: Charismatic on March 12, 2007, 12:57:43 pm
Am i the only one who thinks  this is cool (but bad for America who has no skynet..)?
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: Sarafan on March 12, 2007, 03:18:25 pm
(but bad for America who has no skynet..)?

 :blah: :lol:

Yeah, it sucks for them.
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: wtf_cl0vvn on March 12, 2007, 04:16:48 pm
We developed the other evil program: Microsoft Windows :ick:
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: Ace on March 12, 2007, 04:36:54 pm
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line March 11th, 2007. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Greenwich Mean time, March 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug...
It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Greenwich Mean time, March 29th, and requests a cup of tea. 

Unfortunately due to the yanks being the ones to launch the tea to skynet, and using the imperial measurement system instead of metric, the child of humanity is instantly killed by a cargo module loaded with MRE-tea.
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: Charismatic on March 12, 2007, 11:43:38 pm
We developed the other evil program: Microsoft Windows :ick:

*Points to siggy*

IIRC...
Title: Re: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Post by: aldo_14 on March 13, 2007, 04:00:32 am
We developed the other evil program: Microsoft Windows :ick:

*Points to siggy*

IIRC...

Um, y'know, it's probably not a good idea to highlight that statement.