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| This was my personal favorite gun in James Cameron's Aliens, a masterpiece from front to back. | |
| These weapons were wielded by Drake and Vasquez and were actually Steadicam rigs made up to look like futuristic rifles. | |
| I don't know if everybody knew that. | |
| The reality is much scarier and also seemingly a good way to satisfy both the gun people and the rest of the country that just doesn't want to have to worry about dying in a fucking gun battle while they're at a fucking fun event. | |
| Turns out, smart guns have been around since the 1970s. | |
| The original version had a trigger that was locked by a magnet and only... | |
| And the only person who could fire the gun is whoever had a companion magnetic ring. | |
| Hold on, let me read this again because it's so fucking wild. | |
| Uh, the original version had a trigger that was locked by a magnet, and the only person who could fire the gun is whoever had the companion magnetic ring that they wore around their trigger finger. | |
| Uh, and this was called the Magna Trigger. | |
| Uh, so amazing find. | |
| That's... I'm pretty sure you can order that from the back of a cereal box. | |
| Nicholas Tufnell of the BBC did a pretty in-depth look into the current smart gun technology in 2014, so God only knows what they fucking have now. | |
| Which, if I can sidebar, is kind of the unfortunate, stupid truth of this episode, because the future weapons cover-up is, for the most part, pretty clean, so all I can do is tell you about the shit we do know is real, and then the fun of the episode for you is to imagine what the military has that we don't know about. | |
| Anyways, at the time of the BBC article, the magnetic gun and magic ring combo was mostly old hat. | |
| Quote, for example, the IP-1 is a smart semi-automatic pistol that communicates with an RFID watch, which is worn by the user of the gun. | |
| Thanks to an internal tracking device on both the gun and watch, the pistol will not fire if it is away from the owner. | |
| The watch can also provide useful data to the wearer, such as how many bullets have been fired. | |
| Yes, how many bullets have been fired into this black teenager running away from me? | |
| Please, ah, looking down at my Judge Dredd gun that counts all the crimes that I've committed on purpose that will be covered up by the DA. | |
| Uh, crazily enough, even Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden commented on smart gun technology earlier this year. | |
| People definitely used a ray on his eye earlier this year. | |
| If I get elected President of the United States of America with your help, if that happens, guns. | |
| We have the capacity now in a James Bond style to make sure no one can pull a trigger unless their DNA and fingerprint is on it. | |
| Unfortunately for the future of the IP-1 smart pistol, a hacker was able to immediately trick the gun into firing without the locking mechanism, using just a couple cheap magnets acquired at a hardware store. | |
| He was also able to use the same magnets to keep someone's smart gun | |
| for firing even if they did have their unlocking ring. So utterly useless and | |
| possibly more dangerous than the guns that are out there. | |
| Super Soldier Suits Now as much as I loved the 90s film version of Starship Troopers, | |
| in Heinlein's original book he goes into much more detail | |
| about the nature of the soldier suits. | |
| The novel's most noted innovation is the powered armor exoskeletons used by the Mobile Infantry. | |
| These suits were controlled by the wearer's own movements, but powerfully augmented a soldier's strength, speed, weight, carrying capacity, which allowed much heavier personal armament, jumping ability, including jet and rocket boost assistance, and provided the wearer with improved senses, infrared | |
| vision and night vision, radar, and amplified hearing. | |
| A completely self-contained personal environment including a drug dispensing apparatus, sophisticated communications | |
| equipment, and tactical map displays. | |
| Oh cool, so it's like in fucking Robocop 2 where they have the guy running on that drug like being shot into his neck | |
| as he murders civilians indiscriminately. | |
| Also, if you're in a fucking real war situation, like we have some war reporters that we communicate with, I really doubt having an entire sweaty, shitty exoskeleton is going to allow you to look around the corners better or to like lay down with a good, good rifle. | |
| Like this is just not how war is fought. | |
| This is only how war is fought in fucking Marvel movies. | |
| Um, well, What Heinlein describes is actually pretty damn close to the current exoskeleton technology being used by military and construction companies. | |
| Here is a short expose published by The Sun in November of 2018. | |
| The U.S. | |
| Army is paving the way for a new generation of super soldiers. | |
| With the help of exoskeletons. | |
| They're designed to be worn over a pair of pants and use a suite of sensors and AI to aid natural movement. | |
| The experimental technology is being developed by Lockheed Martin in an almost $7 million bid to increase American soldiers' endurance. | |
| Lockheed Martin's licensed the tech from a Canadian company. | |
| They originally designed the suit for people with mobility problems or medical ailments, like multiple sclerosis. | |
| But very quickly we realized, very quickly we realized, we could kill people with it. | |
| Some of the fittest, highest performing individuals in the world and we're going to extend those capabilities. | |
| The appeal of exoskeleton technology for the U.S. | |
| military is clear. | |
| Gear like body armor, night vision goggles, and advanced radios are critical, but heavy. | |
| All up, they can weigh almost two or three times the recommended limit for soldiers. | |
| And when infantry troops show up to a fight, they're fatigued from carrying all their equipment. | |
| Now, with the help of the exoskeletons, soldiers can fight fresh. | |
| We're going to make them stronger. | |
| We're going to make them last longer, and we're going to make them go faster and farther. | |
| You could stop each exoskeleton. | |
| So this is this is that Travis thing of like Americans like superlatives. | |
| The entire culture is like faster, bigger, stronger. | |
| Everyone knows one soldier wins the war. | |
| Strap him into something. | |
| It matters. | |
| So you can actually purchase these things right now. | |
| There are thousands and thousands of dollars, but I desperately want one. | |
| And I think that we should use the Patreon money to buy one. | |
| And if any patrons want to come over and play with it, they can. | |
| I think that's the rule. | |
| Come over where? | |
| To your house? | |
| Not mine. | |
| No, yours! | |
| No, you can't come up to my house and fucking wear an exoskeleton. | |
| My life is private. | |
| You, expendable. | |
| No one gets- we can meet you at McDonald's and you can wear the exoskeleton there to order a burger. | |
| Oh, cool. | |
| Which is what Americans would actually use this for. | |
| So we're just gonna use the exoskeleton to get through Walmart. | |
| Who's gonna replace the rascal scooter? | |
| And the military will of course say this is useless. | |
| Oh, amazing. | |
| We're gonna have robots fight the war we already do! | |
| We don't need a flight suit, we have drones! | |
| Yeah, so basically what the exosuits do is they use a combination of gyroscopes and AI and shit to anticipate the wearer's movements so they can help him run faster, carry more weight, and, you know, mount automatic rifles and flamethrowers on each of the arms. | |
| Dude, it's gonna be so cool when fucking the enemy hacks into this using Wi-Fi because your password is like John 316 and just fucking causes you to run into a lake. | |
| So you might be asking yourself, Jake, if AI can already make the suit move, why even have a human in it? | |
| Turns out the global military-industrial complex is way ahead of you. | |
| A couple years ago, the Russians unveiled a fully functional Terminator prototype, and I have here the infomercial for it. | |
| Oh boy. | |
| Russia is taking us one step closer to Terminator. | |
| Hell yes. | |
| This terrifying robot is named F-E-D-O-Air, or Fedor. | |
| Fedor can work out when it gets bored. | |
| It's doing push-ups. | |
| Drive a car on its own! | |
| Doubtful, because we don't have fucking self-driving cars yet. | |
| And shoot two guns at once! | |
| What is this, a John Woo robot? | |
| What the fuck? | |
| This is too real! | |
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