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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.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
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
...not likely to slow down much either.
http://www.apple.com/pro/video/cousteau/
Looks like shark, tastes like people.
"...Cousteau referred to the shark kind of like a 'retarded cousin from Australia.'"
Wouldn't that make it a not-so-great white shark?
AFAIK sharks (like sting rays) are extremely sensitive to electric fields. They are so sensitive in fact that there were some shark repellant devices a few years back that basically just periodically zapped the water at a voltage level that wasn't noticed by people but scared off sharks. How then, can this mechanical device with electronic cameras in it fool a shark into acting naturally when its giving off a strange electric field signature?
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.
...RoboTuna!
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.