First International Mine Detector Robots Competition 12
knabar writes: "From the site: The First International Mine Detector Robots Competition (RoboDeminer Contest 2002) Will be held in AmirKabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). Right now around the world, innocent children, men and women are killed and maimed by the vicious remains of wars, mines. As you are reading this, children are going orphan, women are widowed and men are mutilated by the horrible weapon.
We founded this international robotic competition in hope of helping the world to get rid of one of its most dreadful nightmares."
Robot Wars (Score:4, Funny)
Hmmm .... (Score:2, Interesting)
The first RoboDeminer Contest (RDC2002) will be held 19-21 Aug 2002 in [aku.ac.ir]
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran.
They do not sound like the axis of evil they are made out to be.
The first step, stop using them. (Score:1, Offtopic)
Attack the cause. (Score:3, Insightful)
But no, we're stuck cleaning up their messes, and getting blamed ("technology caused this") by some for their decisions. "This technology is too dangerous!" Bogus.
There just isn't enough personal responsibility in the world, these thugs get away with murder daily.
Bob-
Re:Attack the cause. (Score:1)
Prosecution will not make the mines disappear. No matter how many people you charge with warcrimes, someone still needs to clean up millions of unexploded munitions throughout the world. Better a robot than me.
Re:Attack the cause. (Score:2, Informative)
Each State Party undertakes never under any circumstances:
To use anti-personnel mines;
To develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, directly or indirectly, anti-personnel mines;
To assist, encourage or induce, in any way, anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Convention.
Each State Party undertakes to destroy or ensure the destruction of all anti-personnel mines in accordance with the provisions of this Convention. There are 50 countries in the World who have not signed this treaty, they include:
Afghanistan
China
Cuba
Iran
Iraq
North Korea
Libya
Myanmar (Burma)
Vietnam
Yugoslavia
The United states of America
The USA is also one of the World's biggest producers and exporters of Landmines.
So if you really want to do something to get rid of these terrible weapons, which mostly kill and maim innocent people, then write to your Congressman!
Landmines design (Score:1)
I just think of these engineers who design landmines... Do they have any way of "pretending" they're not killing civilians?
Support the campaign to ban landmines [icbl.org].
ps: I've just seen that another comment asking for the support of this campaign, was marked as off-topic!? I can't help thinking some people'd better stick to toys, and OS wars...
What happened to the robots? (Score:2, Insightful)
So do they blow up? (Score:1)
A Challenge (Score:1)