Science fiction segue, I mean Segway

I've been looking out my window for months now just waiting for a Segway scooter to pass by. And waiting. And waiting. Apparently Segway has been doing the same thing in hoping they sell. Waiting. And Waiting. And Waiting. But now Segways are going to be used by the US military in order to develop battle field robots that think and interact. Soon, we'll be letting the machines fight the wars while keeping our troops home and robots will be holding up masses of wires and screaming "Why?" Then robotics gets thrown into the whole nasty fray of determining what is and is not a "life." Could get ugly.

Will the phrase "Robots of Mass Destruction" (RoMD) mean anything? We could always skip the robot step and just let video games decide who wins the war: then troops will be trained in manual dexterity, not battle.

So, what does this all prove? That Segways are highly impractical and very expensive toys that are best suited to being blown to bits on the battle field. I still haven't seen one ride by.

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