Supercomputer Will Manage Nuclear Weapons

[WouldYouKindly]

What? Only Skynet jokes? No War Games?
Or if you want to go more obscure (and shit) there's Virtual Reality Bites (aka "Game Over").

Apart from that, this is...mundane. It's just an update to the hardware of an existing system.

Yes, it's going to be in charge of all the nukes, but is it any good at chess? How about tic tac toe?

Better now?

 

[truckspond]

Yes, because putting a computer in charge of nuclear weapons has never gone wrong...

In all seriousness: As long as it doesn't get access to the internet then it should be fine...

 

[otakon17]

Christ almighty, really? REALLY!? Have these people NOT watched movies?

 

[EHKOS]

Can we please do something cooler with this shit? Like that folding thing I have no knowledge about but is supposed to help develop a cure for cancer?

 

[Remaiki]

One supercomputer in charge of ALL the nuclear weapons?

There is no way this could end badly. No sir.

At least it won't end up as badly as if humans were to be in charge of the nuclear weapons. I shudder to think!
OT: Yeah, this is fairly inconsequential, given that computers are in charge of innumerable critical systems that our societies run on. Unfortunately, I cannot think of any good references from a piece of media to sarcastically put down, so I feel like I'm behind the curve compared to our fellow posters.

 

[Atmos Duality]

What? Only Skynet jokes? No War Games?
Or if you want to go more obscure (and shit) there's Virtual Reality Bites (aka "Game Over").

Apart from that, this is...mundane. It's just an update to the hardware of an existing system.

Yes, it's going to be in charge of all the nukes, but is it any good at chess? How about tic tac toe?

Better now?

Much obliged. ^_^
And much better than references to the Net Police and Yasmine Bleeth.

 

[Crazymoomin]

What? Only Skynet jokes? No War Games?
Or if you want to go more obscure (and shit) there's Virtual Reality Bites (aka "Game Over").

Apart from that, this is...mundane. It's just an update to the hardware of an existing system.

I Think WarGames would be closest in this case. The line

Virtual simulations could be used to test the efficiency of nuclear weapons in a more accurate fashion.

seems to suggest something more akin to WOPR.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

This brings back memories. In Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park (which is a lot better than the film), Cray computers are acknowledged as the most powerful in the world at the time, which is why the US government gets suspicious that John Hammond is using more of them than the entire US military.

 

[Cecilthedarkknight_234]

Welp I'm heading off for my custom fallout vault anyone care to join to me?

 

[BloodRed Pixel]

nukes and supercomputer don't mix

or

don't nuke and supercompute

 

[gridsleep]

Skynet? War Games? Jurassic Park? Pff! Mere children, the lot of you. How about Colossus: The Forbin Project? This is how it all begins.

 

[Fijiman]

Christ almighty, really? REALLY!? Have these people NOT watched movies?

Well of course they did, where else would they get the idea from?

Welp I'm heading off for my custom fallout vault anyone care to join to me?

Depends, is it already stocked?

 

[FalloutJack]

Skynet? War Games? Jurassic Park? Pff! Mere children, the lot of you. How about Colossus: The Forbin Project? This is how it all begins.

I'll do you one BETTER!


Six years before the Forbin Project AND IT TURNS OUT RUSSIA HAD ONE!

They just didn't complete it.

Cray? Take it from Kubrick. THIS IS A BAD IDEA.

 

[Zacharious-khan]

I'm going to go a different way with this

"Mess with the best, die like the rest"

 

[ZodiacBraves]

If I ever end up at the head of a company given a contract to design a supercomputer to manage a nuclear arsenal, I'd call it Skynet, just to see what happens. I mean, everyone's gonna make the reference regardless of what I call it, so I might as well just go for it myself.

If you do, you should introduce it to Cyberdyne [http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/] and get the ball rolling on this.

 

[mrsuperunderpants]

OH MY GOD!!!! They've built Peace Walker!!!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I was going to make a comment about War Games, but apparently I was beaten to it.

 

[Kerethos]

Is it just me that thinks they shouldn't have to build the computer in the first place?

The constant retarded threat of MAD (through nuclear strikes) is just threatening to take your ball, and going home to burn it, taken to the extreme.

I wish we (by that I mean the human race as a whole) could just do away with that bullshit, once and for all. Not build a fucking supercomputer to see if we can still use old nukes to kill nearly every living thing on this planet a decade or two from now.

fitting capcha: filthy dirty mess

 

[Spartan448]

A supercomputer that controls nuclear weapons?

JD?

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

So this is coming with half life 3 pre-installed, right?

Do you think Obama sneaks down to his nukes some nights and strokes them lovingly, whispering "you puppies are legal and aaaaaalllll mine baby!"
Cos...you know...id probably do the same if i had nukes.