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Re:Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones rai... by Waterluvian on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:21PM (#26461076)
This got me thinking about the common misperception of how empty the Earth is:

If you dropped a bomb of a certain type and strength on a random coordinate in <country> how many people do you kill on average?

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Re:Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones rai... by DuskStar on Sunday March 14, 2021 @09:14PM (#26461478)
On average, or by percentile? Because I think one is more likely to be revealing than the other.

A 1Mt device might only have a 50% chance of killing 1+ people if detonated at the proper altitude at a random location within the US, (47% of the US is uninhabited) but average 1000 deaths (~6mi lethal radius, US overall population density of 90p/sqmi).

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Re:Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones rai... by Waterluvian on Sunday March 14, 2021 @09:34PM (#26461621)
Good point on that. Yes, you've described my thought in much better detail.
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