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Alcohol Powered Muscles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bender-would-approve dept.

ianchaos writes "In an article on ScienCentral News, Scientists at the University of Texas are using alcohol to power artificial muscles. From the article: 'Usually the only alcohol-powered muscles are the ones in barroom brawls, but one scientist is adding alcohol to artificial muscles to power robots and more.'"

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  1. Bender had it right! by Winlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or these researchers have been watching just a bit too much Cartoon network.

  2. Great Idea by mikejz84 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally a fuel for Congressman other than self-righteous indignation.

    1. Re:Great Idea by DrMrLordX · · Score: 3, Funny

      Kennedys do.

  3. Well... by rnelsonee · · Score: 2, Funny
    I know at least one 'muscle' that really gets going when there's a lot of alcohol in me...

    /sorry

    1. Re:Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      no need for the quotation marks. the anal sphincter is actually a muscle.

  4. Bender Comments by Council · · Score: 5, Funny

    And that, children, was when Slashdot's ratio of non-Bender-related comments to Bender-related comments began its inexorable slide toward zero.

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  5. Did you really need a scientist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could have told you that alcohol makes you stronger and more confident. Do they really need a scientist to figure that one out?

    1. Re:Did you really need a scientist? by subgrappler · · Score: 2, Funny

      and it also makes me charming and good looking and the girl across the room from is suddenly hot.

  6. The old joke may finally come true.... by Malor · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Beer, stat! There's too much blood in my alcohol supply!"

  7. That must mean... by kitsunewarlock · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Chuck Norris' sweat must be like 198 proof.

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    1. Re:That must mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      you must mean 198 percent

    2. Re:That must mean... by SnprBoB86 · · Score: 4, Funny

      **WHOOSH**

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  8. Wanted.... by Landshark17 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wanted: A surgeon who will replace my muscles with the ones mentioned in TFA so I have a legitimate excuse to drink as much as I do.

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  9. Alcohol-powered muscles by protolith · · Score: 2, Funny

    I Got your Alcohol Powered Muscle Right Here

  10. Yeah, sure... by kcbrown · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Scientists". At the University of Texas. Powering "artificial" muscles. With alcohol.

    Well, 2 out of 4 isn't bad...

    Ah, the things college students will think of when they've had a bit too much to drink...

    ;-) for the humor impaired...

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  11. Well known fact by edwardpickman · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's a blanket term for this, we're called Irish.

  12. Not quite by EZLeeAmused · · Score: 3, Funny
    Actually, the artificial muscles in the article were powered by heat; they just used burning alcohol to generate that heat. It didn't say how much waste heat was generated in the process, but you probably wouldn't want a prototype prosthetic strapped to you.

    Now, artificial intelligence powered by alcohol would be ... no wait, that already exists. Pretty much all alcohol-powered intelligence is artificial.

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  13. Re:Futurama by ViETO · · Score: 4, Funny

    I do believe you haven't read the first 100 posts then.

  14. Re:Production Issues? by SEWilco · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously the solution is grain production robots.

  15. Nothing new here! by a+gash · · Score: 3, Funny

    We already have this technology, it's called Teamsters!

  16. The Future by MagicDude · · Score: 2, Funny

    (Scene - Local pub, 20 years from now)

    MagicDude: ... so I said that's no cell phone, it's a lobster.
    Bluto: Arrgh, your jokes suck, and I'm taking your woman.
    MagicBabe: Help me MagicDude. Heeeeeeeelllllp
    (Cue Popeye Music)
    (Reach inside shirt, pull out beer can. Squeeze contents into air and drink in one gulp).
    MagicDude: Time to open up a Beowolf Cluster of Pain on your butt.

  17. Re:Wait wait wait by Gentlewhisper · · Score: 2, Funny
    Does this mean I can finally have my very own Bender!?


    Bender? Who cares about Bender... I for one, bow down to our new constantly barfing alcohol burnin' Myomer driven BattleMechs!
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  18. Re:Old Idea, actually. by The+Damned+Yankee · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues." - Mark Twain

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  19. Re:Wait wait wait by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Does this mean I can finally have my very own Bender!?"

    Why? You got a metal ass biting fetish you're willing to drop a few thousand $$$ on?

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