tmspartan: Fyrhawk: About the AI dicussion(if that's what I think I saw)...
The USB slots of today are fairly small, the chip that Cortana is on isn't made to be inserted in today's USB slots. So AI's can't hack into the modern today computer because they can't fit. I'm not sure about military 'hook-ups', but I'm sure that the AI chips can't fit...
Are you joking? That's your reason why AIs can't hack the US, because the chips don't fit in a USB port? If they were going to use anything it would be similar to a Wireless connection, or they would just use a satellite to get into the internet, and from there it is so much easier. Oh and if you say you can't get to the US data core from the internet think about this.
It's easy to get from the internet to a centralized server, which is where US intelligence is stored.
I didn't say that they couldn't use wireless signals to hack into the systems, though I admit that what I said looked like it in a way.
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The everyday UNSC marine doesn't carry the equiptment to scan for biological materials, because it's not their job. The thought of biological substances wouldn't be in the mind of a UNSC marine, it would be in the back of his head; the last thing he would think of. The guys that do scan for biological substances would be aboard the ships, doing their job; testing anything that they think is a threat. And that's not going to stop the infection from spreading.
Biological virus' "evlove", they evolve(into multiple sub groups) up to the point where they're immune to cures and vaccines. They are the most dangerous material known to man, they blend with infected host to avoid detection, signs of an infectious outbreak does not show until weeks or months later.
It's kinda funny on how today's technology can stop the common flu, but then out of no where it changes just once and is something completely different that needs an entire new vaccine/cure.(and that's after months/years). Now think about a biological substance that chances within weeks...not only once, but it changes multiple times until it's completely immune to nearly everything. Even when it's immune to more than 1000 vaccines, it's going to keep changing and changing. It's not like the common flu, it doesn't change after months or years, it changes in weeks. YES, I DO beleive that the UNSC is capable of stopping the biological weapons that modern technology has, but they wouldn't be able to see it coming(either from the thought of winning, or just not thinking about it), until it's too late.
I'm taking that a lot of members here suspect that a biological organism shows the affects within a few days...but it doesn't, for all we know, we could've been breathing in a biological organism since last year.
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