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A Twisty Maze Of Sewerbot Links, All Different

Posted by timothy on from the get-your-mind-back-in-the-gutter dept.

skids writes "Look before you sit! Sewer systems all over the world are under seige by robots laying fiber to the curb -- and beyond. There's even a standards body forming. (Doesn't that consitute a one-level recursion of 'pipes carrying filth'?)" It's been a while since we last mentioned these things.

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  1. What's next? by rickthewizkid · · Score: 3, Funny

    IP over rodentia carrier?
    BR RickTheWiseAss

  2. It's all fun and games... by craenor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Until a wrong turn has a battlebot crawling out of your toilet with cable laying on it's mind.

    1. Re:It's all fun and games... by Bicoid · · Score: 5, Funny

      Think of it this way. They're laying fiber optics. What's the worst thing that happens? You get that colonoscopy you've been putting off?

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    2. Re:It's all fun and games... by Chuqmystr · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, no, I already see where this is going. The telcos are just saying that they're laying "fibre to the curb" in this manner in order to bring you cheaper, better and faster bandwidth. And indeed, I'm sure they are actually laying the stuff. But once we're all hooked and the honeymoon is over and they start doing to that fibre service just as they and the cable co.s are now doing with DSL and such just what will bcome of all those little robots scuttling about the bowels of are fine land? Well? I can tell you. They will become the one and only thing that the telcos are honestly and earnestly interested in giving we customers. All of those little sewage pipe crawling robots will be converted into customer cornholing machines! Mark my words I tell you!

  3. IN SOVIET RUSSA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Robots lay you in the sewers.

  4. And... by Cali+Thalen · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...when people tell you that the internet has gone down the toilet, NOW what do you have to say?

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  5. yeah right by caffeine_monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    "fibre optic cable laying robot". yeah, sure. we all know that robot + fibre optic connection = high bandwidth voyeur cam.

  6. Crocodiles by Gax · · Score: 2, Funny

    What will happen when the crocodiles attempt to eat these robots? Will we see lawsuits filed by crocodile protection groups?

    Alternatively, couldn't we save money and persuade the Mutant Ninja Turtles to lay the cables? They've had nothing to do since the show got cancelled. What a group of lazy bums, especially that Splinter geezer!

  7. Translation by Alsee · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's been a while since we last mentioned these things.

    In other words it's a dupe in slow motion :)

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  8. Robots in the sewers? by Tseran · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some say its an urban legend, the stories of robots flushed down the toilets when they were just mini-battle bots, all grown up to huge proportions and laying fiber all over the city. But I know its true! I accidentally flushed by Lego Mindstorms down the toilet one day and now I have high speed internet access when I crap!

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  9. IP over carrier pigeon by Erpo · · Score: 3, Funny

    IP over rodentia carrier?

    Nope, but there's IP over carrier pigeon.

  10. Bandwidth by indigo78 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't want even a small cable to reduce my sewer bandwidth...

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  11. Hooray for productivity! by Subcarrier · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, great. So now we have to install crappers in the meeting rooms to get the LAN access.

    The upside is, no more toilet breaks.

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  12. Re:Bandwidth-Low fiber. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    " I don't want even a small cable to reduce my sewer bandwidth..."

    Switching to a low fiber diet will help.

  13. i can see it already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    user1: "my connection is going slow."

    user2: "must be all that shit clogging up the lines."

    user1: "yeah, must be! let me try flushing the connection." *goes to toilet and flushes several times*

  14. So, when you have connection problems... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's a real shitty connection :P

    (sorry, i couldn't resist)

  15. Way to go Bill and Al! by Nefrayu · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would seem that this is a convergence of policies for the former US President and VP. Clinton wanted to make healthcare more affordable and/or free, and Gore wanted to route the internet to everyone's home, business, or public meeting place. With this system you can get the internet and a free colonoscopy at the same time!
    Any of you who've been subjected to a sigmoid colonoscopy would know that you can't tell the difference between a robot shoving a fiber optic bundle from a physician shoving the fiber optic endoscope up there.

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  16. Lawyers by Catskul · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why should we put money into developing robots to do this work.

    Couldnt we just ask the lawyers to do it while they are down there ?

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  17. Prison Sex? by sielwolf · · Score: 4, Funny
    What's the worst thing that happens? You get that colonoscopy you've been putting off?
    Yeah... I bet that's what they say when your about to go to prison for a looooonnng time.
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  18. Be very afraid by Hubert_Shrump · · Score: 2, Funny

    Human decisions were removed from strategic defence. Sewernet began to learn at a geometric rate...

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  19. I hope I never get this at my house by PD · · Score: 3, Funny

    You see, my house is located on the side of a hill, and it's actually lower in elevation than the sewer line on the street. I use an ejection pump to move the shit from a storage tank into the sewer. There is a valve in the sewer line just up from the ejection pump that prevents poo from the sewer from flowing the wrong way and erupting from the toilets. I wouldn't be very happy if a little sewer robot was going along saying "OK, 6513 is next to get a fiber connection. Hey? What's this? I'll just prop this little door open while I run the fiber line."

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  20. the CableCat? by deander2 · · Score: 3, Funny


    Haha!

    When I saw their logo, with the 2 large "C"s, I first thought it said CueCat! :P

    I thought, "That's ironic, that's the same name as that OTHER company with a shitty business model!" :-D

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  21. Wife taking a Bath... by Wolfrider · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wife: "Honey, there's some kind of robot coming out of the toilet - there's a weird-looking cable in it's mouth and -- (screams) it looks like there's an Alligator right behind it!"

    Man (bored, not really paying attention): "Yes dear. I'll be in to squash it in a minute, just let me log off Slashdot..."

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  22. Internet traffic in the sewers... by stinky+wizzleteats · · Score: 3, Funny

    Suddenly all that porn surfing doesn't seem so inappropriate anymore.