No, Bad Scientists
Robots that eat the flesh of living creatures; this can only go in good directions. Now, we just need to program them to shuffle around awkwardly and we can have a robot zombie apocalypse. Bulletproof zombies made from metal; awesome.
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June 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
First!
June 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Autonomous Mobile Swords, a.k.a. Screamers. If Halliburton hasn’t got some, Skynet probably does.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Can we give them mind-reading abilities too?
June 26th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
As long as they only attack liberals I’m cool with it.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
I have a big tube of red Loctite. They may be bulletproof, but we can slow them way down.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
FTA:
“As soon as there is a predatory robot in the room the scene becomes loaded with potential,” Auger told New Scientist. “A fly buzzing around the window suddenly becomes an actor in a live game of life, as the viewer half wills it towards the robot and half hopes for it to escape.”
Although, for now, the robots rely on mains power, Auger believes they could become truly self-sufficient. “If the system fails, the grid goes down and all humans die, these robots could go on living so long as the flies don’t go with us.”
Wow… just, wow. God complex much, Mr. Auger?
June 26th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
And now that Ahnold is a liberal wussy-girl, complete with droopy man-breasts, there’s no one to battle the machines.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
The ones that will be powered by eating plankton? I thought we were using that plankton to save us from CO2? No? At the very least you might think this would cause greenie meltdown…I’m all for it.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Just have Fred Thompson say “Boy, you robots sure are uglier than a buzzard on a meat wagon” in his casual Southern drawl and the robots will explode from all that awesomeness. Works everytime.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
As a person that works with systems on a daily basis I can guarantee you that the Robots have been designed by egg-heads and have been programmed by dill-weeds and therefore if the “grid goes down” they will end up like a Republican Congressman, under their desks, in the fetal position, crying for their mommies…
June 26th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
ussjc, I’ve noted that those who deal with the daily issues with systems, i.e. Desktop techs, swing very much to the Right of the political spectrum. But those damned UNIX/MAC/Programmer dweebs are Leftist regurgitation machines. Which fits the profile: Arrogant, well-versed in a single thing whilst pontificating as an expert on everything and Egotistical and Elitist to bott.
We Desktop folk are the Information Age Mechanics. True Blue-collar. And as it goes,we Blue-collar folk love Conservative ideals. So long as they aren’t the Unionized Blue-collar, then they’re all a bunch of Uncle Toms.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Mail pink slips to the US Senators in your district. Tell them this could be real if they vote for Cap & Trade also.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Now, #10, I just have to add here that engineers are people who work with eggheads and programmer dweebs all managed by dill weeds who have no clue what anyone actually does. Ultimately, they all work for some self-appointed douchenozzle who specializes in wearing stylish butt covers with matching knee pads designed to allow money sucking from dorkwad politicians. (This is actually how the science and engineering world works.)
Engineers are also born in the fetal position and were heard to cry out for their mommies years ago. However, most are pretty fed-up with the Republican Party, so they’re good.
(I have no clue how this applies to ‘bulletproof zombies made from metal’ and is more a philosophical reflection on #10′s deep and thoughtful introduction to the topic.)
June 26th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Housefly powered fuelcells?
Screw windmills!
Someone call congress! The energy crisis is solved!
What? What do you mean the phones are busy?
June 26th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
We stopped making progress in 1969 and began the downhill slide on 1-1-1970:00:00:01:0001
June 26th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Fly powered robots- cool.
Wind powered robots suck.
June 27th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Why is it that people who are smart enough to come up with these ideas are too stupid to see the obvious dangers?
Some times I really feel that intelligence is highly over rated!
Now, instead of little Billy taking a note to his teacher saying the dog ate his homework, little Billy’s sister will be delivering a note to his teacher that says the sofa ate little Billy!
June 27th, 2009 at 11:18 am
GEJ…homework? Are you nuts? Homework for little Billy? Naw! He shan’t be bothered with such triviality as he is pursuing gender assignment studies to figure out which little Billy to let out…
June 27th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I also remember reading a story about them making nanobots that could replicate themselves. I don’t remember the specific length of time, but in an extremely short period of time, given sufficient material, the nanobots could literally cover the Earth.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
cincinnati_bob – I’m reading the puppy blender’s “Army of Davids” right now and he mentions that that is the premise of Michael Crichton’s “Prey”. So, yeah, I’ll be reading that. But I have Liberty and Tyranny to get through first. I need to be funemployed so I can get some reading done. *sigh*
June 27th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
so next we need a robot that is powered by crushing fly-eating robots?
June 27th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
….. Sarah CoRnHole CoRnicles all over again!
June 28th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
cjtony97- I’m right there with ya. Working so you know the people behind me, too lazy to work, can get ahead too.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Now we will have to call them “maggot infested hippies” instead of “flea ridden maggot infested hippies”.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
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