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WETA Working on Robotic Lizard For Science
Roland Piquepaille writes "The tuatara, which is both related to lizards and snakes, is one of the planet's oldest reptile species. It's been living in New Zealand for about 200 million years. Scientists still don't know much about their behavior, so they've asked Weta Workshop, a Wellington-based company known for its work on 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, to build a robotic male tuatara. It is equipped with cameras which will help the researchers to discover how real male tuatara attract and keep females. The goal is to help conservation managers to the genetically fittest, most productive males. But what will happen if a female tuatara discovers that the robot is an impostor?"
YAY, now I can get an evening of peace while his lizard love bot entertains him!!
Shiny. Let's be bad guys.
Complete Satisfaction?
Also imagine how the slashdotters will behave towards their realdolls after having read this. Or better, try your best not to imagine any of this.
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That's almost like equipping an android (or in lieu of that, a geek) with cameras to figure out how "real" men "attract and keep females".
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
It looks like, basically, what's been created is a realistic robot tuatara designed to attract females and essentially turn them on sexually through dominance displays. And at least in theory, it's real enough that they can't distinguish it from the real thing. If we have this technology - why are we wasting it on lizard-snakes?? Where's my robot girlfriend?
"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he deems himself your master."
I have additional evidence for the Tuaturas being aliens, so it must be true: Remember that Poster in the creationism museum telling us that after the fall of Eden it was harsh work for all of us? Well, think about what Tuaturas do all day! They just sit around on a warm rock in the sun waiting till some small insect comes by that they eat. Is that harsh labor? Also, isn't this an extraorddrinary intelligent way to spend your day, instead of working your ass of for a meager salary? These are not from here dude.
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King Xyylax! We have studied the human mating behavior for years and now know precisely how it happens! Once the woman is boiled, coitus is brief, then the woman is doused in bleach before she is thrown in a closet and covered with dirty clothes. Then the male weeps uncontrollably for several minutes before falling asleep. Invasion should be simple.
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
Yes, clearly Tuaturas are more advanced than humans. On the second page of the linked article it says that Tuaturas have methods of avoiding aggression. Humans, on the other hand, kill other humans over anything that will make money, like restricting the supply of oil to make more profit.
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Thus our interest in their mating rituals.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
The same thing, I suspect, that happens with human females:
She'll be very satisfied, until the batteries die.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Why don't they just come to the USA and borrow our very own robotic lizard, Dickie Cheney???
I just want to say that this is the coolest Slashdot headline I've seen in a while. All it needs is proper capitalization and punctuation:
And for best results, do a Magnus Pike impersonation when reading it.