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Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot
OctaneZ writes "NASA announced that they will enter, in cooperation with Caltech, a 50ft robot in the Rose Bowl Parade - unfortunately it will be made entirely of flowers and will not attempt to enslave the crowd. However, they have mounted a camera to it, which will allow you to view the parade from the top of their creation."
I for one welcome our flowered robot overlords.
That's one big pusher robot!
Or is it a shover?
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How do you know it won't enslave the crowd? I personally find flowers scary (they remind me of going outside).
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It won't enslave anybody? I guess that means it doesn't qualify for welcomable-overlord status....
....Right?!
But at least they'll get a short-tempered, socially inept 14-year-old kid to pilot it, right?
I fail to see how anything "made entirely of flowers" could possibly qualify as a robot, unless we've made great advances in DNA-based computing and animating plants.
Or did someone maybe mean it would be covered in flowers?
The video link currently shows a 3 minute feed of the robot.
I imagine the look on the robot's face will be similar to the look my dog gets when my wife puts him in a Christmas sweater or when he has one of those stupid bows on his head from the groomers
Who the heck is running the show at NASA these days, Martha Stewart?
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it will be made entirely of flowers and will not attempt to enslave the crowd
Well then it's not nerd news! Let me know when the enslaving starts, not the allergies.
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Gah! They got it all wrong! It was suposed to be 60 feet tall and have Gundanium armor, not Geranium Armor!
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
"Your tax dollars at work."
Hmm, no, that doesn't cut it.
"Your tax dollars at play."
"Your tax dollars on parade."
Dunno.
Anyway, it was probably a lot cheaper to build than most things they lob up into space, so I won't fret.
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CalTech has a history of antics wrt the Rose Bowl/Parade. Do a google search of "caltech rose bowl" and read all about them.
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This just seems a little too much like pandering to some sort of anachronistic
humanoid-shaped-robots = space = the-future
right out of the 1950's. I'm guessing some baby boomers might think it's amusing, but most kids will sort of scratch their heads and think, "but... it doesn't DO anything!"
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unfortunately it will be made entirely of flowers and will not attempt to enslave the crowd. However, they have mounted a camera to it, which will allow you to view the parade from the top of their creation.
Just another damn peaceful robot!
But but they still can at least mount an additional 100mW green laser and try to blind nearby flying airplanes!
Just a little nitpick. The Pasadena Tournament of Roses is colloquially called the "Rose Parade." The Rose Bowl started about a decade after the parade itself.
If only the Aztecs had these fighting machines for their flower wars.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
"and here comes the Caltech robot, made entirely of trifid blossoms..aggghhhh!!!!"
(if you don't get it, follow this link.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/ )
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You gotta wonder if that robot is going to hold up a HUSKIES sign.
It would be a great way to even the score.
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They're using Realplayer to stream. The enslaving has already begun.
I also object to the stereotyping of robots as "automatons".
It goes out the door, it goes 'round the block
we pay hundreds of bucks to put up with this crock
It goes up, it goes down, it goes all around town
it's a long line after allllllll.
It's a long line after all, it's a long line after all, it's a long, long line!
Our crowning moment was getting escorted out of line for singing that little ditty by the Disney cops. I'd like to tell you they rousted us but in reality they were extremely polite and good natured, armed only with walkie talkies and little mouse ear badges. We walked out with our hands on our heads and they were like, "That's not really necessary." Unfortunately before the days camcorders were conveniently portable, because that was a classic. Back when even corporations had a sense of humor.
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Unless there's a 50-foot robot made of antihystamines following right behind it...
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