The Future is Now! Homing Bullets Patented!

[Trippy Turtle]

All I want to be invented is a way to summon objects with your mind. It is reasonably plausible because all it would need is wireless in your brain and miniature jetpacks. Lots and lots of miniature jetpacks.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

Oh no! Help! I've got to get one of these before it's too late, but only one, because I only have one mother! Ah, I'm making a joke, but you knew that. But seriously, I'm under tribulation and there is possibility of harm. The man I offended moves to the left or right, never forward, but he advances all the same (my theory is minuscule movements during the large left hops), and I hope to receive from him bells, but in all likelihood it's likely to be a coffin. Because of his irregular movement, I need a projectile that can sufficiently match the unpredictability of a wily giraffe, and this sounds like just the ticket. I cannot order ammunition, due to the law, but I figure if I have a gun I will find ammo like a mother finds her young.

You have the strangest posts i've ever read.

OT: I'd like to see a bomb that disintegrates all life on earth, it'll be a shortcut to the logical conclusion to the parable of the human race.

 

[FalloutJack]

We all love our red-dot laser sights on our rifles and LMG's when playing the likes of Battlefield and Modern Warfare, but what if that reflex scope would allow you to fire homing bullets? It isn't possible in gaming, outside of hacking or modding, but it may soon be possible in reality.

A lab in New Mexico is in the process of taking the same principles of laser guided homing missiles that we have now and miniaturizing them into a .50 caliber bullet. Using a laser dot as a target, the bullet is capable of making 30 corrections to its trajectory in-flight. Apparently, the use of homing bullets in real life would make a single soldier more efficient, since he would use less ammunition from misses.


Here's the article:

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/technology/sandia-labs-bullet-doesnt-miss

I probably don't need to tell you how expensive it would be to fully stock an LMG ammo box with these bullets, but the fact that we're coming out with them shows how quickly weapons and ammunition can change today.

For discussion: What is your biggest hope for future tech that seems reasonably plausible to be invented in the near future?

I seem to recall there being a movie about robots and homing bullets that ARE robots.

OT: The full-prosthetic body, of course. Mechanical limb replacements exist. The ability to drive them with your mind exist. The next logical step is actual organs and braincases. Full-body conversion - a la Ghost in the Shell - is not unrealistic. However, I will wear clothes.

 

[The Funslinger]

"What is your biggest hope for future tech that seems reasonably plausible to be invented in the near future?"

Some sort of device that stops idiots inventing homing-bullets.

Indeed. It'll turn all warfare into full on butchery. Casualties on both sides will sky-rocket with the "if we fire first, we can't lose!" fashion of thinking, and they're actually taking the skill out of marksmanship.

This pisses me off on so many levels. It better turn out to be a shit idea that goes nowhere.

I will reduce us back to the WWI level of warefare, both sides will dig in to such an extent that they have to charge the other side in mass numbers to counter the superior weapons fire; in the case of WWI it was the machine gun, now it's homing bullets.

Also they're fifty cal rounds, not many mobile infantry weapons use fifty cal rounds. so the chance of an infantryman coming into contact with one of those bad boys is pretty low unless they're fighting crazy prepared people.

Yeah, 50 cal is how it starts. This technology would obviously progress. It's the start of something bad to my mind.

And the worst thing is that unlike the nuke it doesn't scare us, the nuclear bomb was a turning point, it scared us when we used it; to such a degree that we regressed back to soldiers and tanks, we never used that weapon again.

This, this will be seen as an 'acceptable evil in warfare'

Hopefully when insurgent forces inevitably get their hands on some and start mowing down soldiers by the garrison with guerrilla warfare, people will wise the fuck up. Hopefully before I go into the Royal Marines. I'm a good shot, but that won't mean shit against homing bullets.

The majority of shots fired in war miss, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.