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Finally ... RoboShark!
Noryungi writes "Cousteau's grandson has built a robotic replica of a great white shark to better observe these animals in their natural environment. The robot-slash-submarine is able to mingle with the great white, and not draw their attention, thanks to a closed-circuit pneumatic propulsion system and cleverly disguised cameras. Do not miss the nice pictures next to the Wired article. Let the Dr Evil joke begin!"
It will probably be teased for being a vegetarian too.
However the scariest part is when the real sharks kidnaps this roboshark, and one of them disguises and returns to the base...
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
Good one Noryungi! I'm sure there were tons of us slashdotters who were saving up their wit and creativity for a post like this.
I imagine there are slashdotters out there who have mountains of In Soviet Russia, Old Korean People, Sharks with Friggin Lasers, goatse, and Microsoft Trolls just WAITING to be unleashed. It's been a long time since we could use the Sharks with Friggin Lasers troll/joke, so this would have been a perfect story to use it...
But what do you do? You give the goahead for us to make the joke! You killed the surprise! You made all those trolls out there look... *gasp* unoriginal! This will not stand!
Now, all those posts will be -1 Troll instead of +5 Funny! You killed slashdot culture! You bastard! Timothy, quick! Do something! Censor him! Anything!
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On another note... the article tickled me to no end as Cousteau referred to the shark kind of like a "retarded cousin from Australia." I wonder what the Aussies have to say about this. How about a comment there, Steve Irwin? Too busy with that crockie? No worries.
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"My dad put his robot penis in my mom's shark vagina!"
Interesting articles. I wonder how they made Jaws now. Puppets?!
Let the Dr Evil joke begin!"
Yes interesting article but I stil see no frikin laser beams attatched to their heads!
Crunchy on the outside, humanie on the inside!
Cousteau's grandson was eaten. The suits manufacturer says that the wearing of the suit and being ingested by another animal is purely conicidental.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
Man goes into cage, cage goes into salsa, shark's in the salsa, robo shark.
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
Looks like shark, tastes like people.
Insert Tinfins joke here...
"...Cousteau referred to the shark kind of like a 'retarded cousin from Australia.'"
Wouldn't that make it a not-so-great white shark?
Fabien Cousteau: "I took nature's most perfect killing machine, and needlessly turned it into a robot!"
From TFA:
Since Troy cannot respond in a sophisticated, sharklike manner, Cousteau decided that while the great whites do buy that he's a shark, they consider him more like a "retarded cousin from Australia."
The human touch can be deadly too. Let me tell you, any guy who touches an unfamiliar girl out of curiosity will likely meet a swift death.
The third camera records Cousteau's behavior inside the sub.
Is this one there so they can make a documentary about marine biologists at the same time as they make the one about the sharks?
Do you want to volunteer to attach these cameras to a shark?
Sharks supposedly don't like the tatste of human much
And they hate, hate, zombies.
Everything will be taken away from you.
Come now. Plenty of us like vegetarians. Far leaner and juicier than carnivores, much less those bottom-feeders and carrion-eaters you catch at fast food joints. I especially like the macrobiotics. Stir fried, with tamari and red pepper... mmmmmmm....
-Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of all Trades
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Not to mention the kerchunk-kerchunk of large cylinders hammering away inside. Since sound carries in water so well, not only will it look like the retarded cousin from Australia, it will sound like the "retarded cousin from Australia with a bad case of gas".
Heard?
Herd?
Fish would be a school.
But I don't even know if it would be "school of shark" or "school of sharks".
Crows get to be called a murder.
And after some imagining, I wouldn't know how to even START naming a Beowulf Cluster of Robot Sharks.
I've seen divers who swim with full size (17 feet) Great Whites without a cage and escape harmless.
Yeah, I can imagine that most humans would be pretty harmless lying in a hospital bed.
Do not read this sig.
Maybe it's a typo, and he meant "escape armless".
From a significant distance -- a couple hundred feet -- boogie boarders in northern CA who wear wetsuits, look like seals from *shore.* You gotta forgive the sharks a few exploratory nibbles.
Dude, I think I can see my house from here.
But I don't even know if it would be "school of shark" or "school of sharks".
Generally speaking the last thing people are concerned with when surrounded by great whites would be how to call them. But judging from the movies a congregation of them would commonly be referred to as "uh oh"
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Until your robo-shark, with you in it, gets eaten by a passing Orca.