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1. Hattie Cat (hattiecat@quitter.no)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2017 22:12:44 UTC Hattie Cat

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   @bob @h Modern torpedoes are basically killer robots. From what I understand, submarines don't like to "fire" torpedoes since it gives their position away. Instead, they quietly drop off an autonomous torpedo somewhere then slink away. A while later the torpedo starts off and does its thing on its own. Back in the 1990s, talking to an engineer, I heard that sophisticated ones have a sort of database of sensor signatures of what's a target and what's not, and if they miss the target they can come back and have another go. Parodied by the Guardian's cartoonist Steve Bell https://quitter.no/attachment/1520116 https://quitter.no/attachment/1520117