You Say Robots They Say Soldiers

Shall I translate the newspeak coming from the halls of the robed ones with the test tubes?

Listen to the latest:

An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.

Wolfgang Fink, visiting associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena says we are on the brink of a great paradigm shift in planetary exploration, and the next round of robotic explorers will be nothing like what we see today.

"The way we explore tomorrow will be unlike any cup of tea we've ever tasted," said Fink, who was recently appointed as the Edward and Maria Keonjian Distinguished Professor in Microelectronics at the University of Arizona, Tucson. "We are departing from traditional approaches of a single robotic spacecraft with no redundancy that is Earth-commanded to one that allows for having multiple, expendable low-cost robots that can command themselves or other robots at various locations at the same time."

(JPL, Cal. Inst. Of Tech). In other words, "the Pentagon is paying us well so we are making an army of robots to fight the next world war because you people are too smart to want to obliterate yourselves".

Robots are so "faithful" aren't they? It's tea time tea baggers and blokes.