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 The eight black mines trotted out to the field on four skinny legs, shook their tails encouragingly in a mock salute to the biological organisms that they copied, and lost themselves into the tall grass. Electronic sensors read the air, seeking heat and scent, and relayed information to a computer brain, which then stimulated the explosive-packed limbs to move the explosive-packed torso. Of course, I couldn't see any of this, as I was far from the complex walls, but I knew all about seeker mines from several unimaginably bad encounters. As the cold steel 'bodies' of the seeker mines was silhouetted against the heat of the complex in thermal