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Post by Alex on Sept 19, 2007 8:18:59 GMT -8
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aimee
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Post by aimee on Sept 19, 2007 9:54:49 GMT -8
That is really cool!
I like the climbing spider version they have on the website.
Do you think robotics will ever begin to play a larger part in warfare/spywork/assasinations? It is probably kind of far out, but I could see it happening.
Someday a future generation will look back at our archaic methods of warfare as we do on the Revolutionary war or the Napoleonic wars, lining up in formations with big x's on their chests, and charging eachother with their single-shot rifles and fixed bayonnets. And yet in it's essence war remains unchanged.
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Post by Alex on Sept 19, 2007 14:53:46 GMT -8
Which comes back around to one of my favorite quotes:
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert Einstein
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Post by Josh on Sept 19, 2007 21:32:58 GMT -8
Wow... that is trippy. It's like a robo-deer. The weirdest part is when the guy kicks it.
So, besides military use, what about some kind of everyday use for technology like this?
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Post by Alex on Sept 24, 2007 19:29:32 GMT -8
I'd recommend loading him up and heading into the wild like Number Seven from Grizzly Adams.
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Post by Josh on Sept 24, 2007 20:08:52 GMT -8
Gol durn it Number Seven, I'm gonna trade you in for Number Eight! Or, maybe Number 5:
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Post by Josh on Jun 29, 2010 15:47:09 GMT -8
So, I finally found out who Kilroy is:
From the wikipedia article on Mr. Roboto:
The song tells part of the fictitious story of Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (ROCK), in the rock opera Kilroy Was Here. The song is performed by Kilroy (as played by keyboardist Dennis DeYoung), a rock and roll performer who was placed in a futuristic prison for "rock and roll misfits" by the anti-rock-and-roll group the Majority for Musical Morality (MMM) and its founder Dr. Everett Righteous (played by guitarist James Young). The Roboto is a model of robot which does menial jobs in the prison. Kilroy escapes the prison by taking over a Roboto prison guard and hiding inside the emptied-out metal shell. When Jonathan Chance finally meets Kilroy, at the very end of the song, Kilroy says, I'm Kilroy! Kilroy!, ending the song.
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Post by michelle on Jun 29, 2010 21:32:28 GMT -8
Nice!
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