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Day of the Robotic Tentacle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the of-course-they-will-do-a-sequel dept.

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist is reporting on a robotic tentacle developed thanks to funding from military agency DARPA. From the video it looks to have a lot of potential, I can almost feel it fastening around my ankle right now."

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  1. Forget about the army... by Olix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Think about the implications for the Sex industry!

    1. Re:Forget about the army... by foundme · · Score: 4, Funny

      How appropriate! When you need it to perform, just feed it with some alcohol and the "muscle" will get powered up.

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  2. Tentacles indeed by zephc · · Score: 5, Funny

    DARPA: taking hentai in brave, new directions. Your tax dollars at work.

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  3. whoa whoa whoa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    don't tell Japan! think of the children!

    1. Re:whoa whoa whoa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      don't tell Japan! think of the children!

      Oh they will. They will.

  4. As a pastafarian... by truthsearch · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a Pastafarian I'm offended by this immitation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's a blatant mockery of all I find sacred. I demand reparations!

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    1. Re:As a pastafarian... by scooter.higher · · Score: 5, Funny

      But this is no mockery! This is an homage... a show of support from the scientific community that they too have been touched by His Noodly Appendage.

      They just wanted to be touched more often :-)

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  5. Couldn't have called it a "robotic elephant trunk" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We couldn't have called it a "robotic elephant trunk", could we? Never mind that it more resembles an elephant's trunk than a tentacle, noooo. Never mind that TFA also mentioned that resemblance.

    Oh no, we had to use the term that will cause 99.9987% of the posts to fixate upon the hentai aspects of this.

  6. Just the beginning by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's just a step toward the robotic cthulu.

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    1. Re:Just the beginning by sgant · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, loved those movies that had Mecha-Cthulhu vs. original Cthulhu...but they're hard to watch because every time you actually see Cthulhu, you lose sanity points.

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  7. What's wrong with Yankee nerd refs? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lots of anime' jokes already, but no Doc Ock references. How disappointing. Support American scifi in-jokes!

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  8. Re:Clever by Orne · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, you're saying that "Intelligent Design" may be better than "Evolution" after all?

    (Yes, I had to go there)

  9. I for one... by Null+Nihils · · Score: 3, Funny

    welcome our robotic tentacle overlords.


    ... I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist. :(

  10. Hmmm.... by flyweight_of_fury · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that a Robotic tentacle or toothpase ?

    ...I smell a lawsuit coming...

  11. Day of the Robotic Tentacle by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 3, Funny

    Completely OT:

    I remember going to a big dinner for a family reunion. I told them all about this game I was playing, 'Day of the Tentacle'. It wasn't until I noticed that everybody had stopped eating and all eyes were on me that I realized I had said 'testicle'.

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  12. Source? by sootman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can almost feel it fastening around my ankle right now.

    Ankle? You must read different comics than I do.

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  13. I for one... by jpellino · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... oh, you know the rest.

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  14. Re:simple math by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Must be some kind of fuzzy math you got there. Sorry to disprove you, but:

    Robot Tentacle + Tentacle Pr0n = Tentacle (Robot + Pr0n)

    Since we all know that Octopi have 8 tentacles, lets go ahead and substitute.

    Robot Tentacle + Tentacle Pr0n = 8 (Robot + pr0n)

    We can, of course, substitute I for Robot, leaving us with

    8 (I + pr0n)

    Since that's a capital I, we know it represents an integer, and not an imaginary number. Given that the Romans were into tentacle pr0n, we can assume that's a Roman numeral, and substitute accordingly.

    8 (1 + pr0n)

    Now, we all know the emoticon 8(1 represents an unhappy glasses-wearing person with a scruffy asymmetrical beard, or an unhappy nerd. So via substitution we have:

    Tenticle Robot + Tenticle Pr0n = An unhappy nerd + pr0n

    As we all know, this is a logical fallacy, since a nerd with pr0n is never unhappy.

    I figured, if you were going to posit that ax + ay = axy, I might as well take the fuzzy math a little farther.

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  15. Uh oh by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 4, Funny

    Schoolgirls all over Japan just felt an icy chill of fear whip through them.

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  16. Brave New World by Wellington+Grey · · Score: 3, Funny

    One can only imagine the affect this will have on the rate of recruitment of Japonese school girls into the armed forces.

    -Grey

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