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Massive EU Program To Study Three-legged Dogs

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-I-really-need-to-know-I-learned-from-a-three-legged-dog dept.

DMandPenfold writes "A multi-billion dollar European Union IT research fund will help study the behavior of three-legged dogs, it has been revealed. The fund will support extensive studies into how three-legged dogs move. There is a particular focus on how the dogs balance and function, given their missing limb."

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  1. Automail anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    1 step closer to automail... :)

  2. Idle or not, very stupid and suggestive article by pjotrb123 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most of the article focuses on 1 billion vs 3-legged dogs. Only the last paragraph mentions that a total of 16000 researchers will be funded. I'm quite sure some of the remaining 15995 are doing something useful or interesting too, but somehow they neglect to mention this.

    A typical example of modern media hyping things up, a submitter that makes it even worse, and a Slashdot editor who thinks what the heck it's summer lets put it on the front page.

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  3. Mod parent up by antientropic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed, the real story here (though not news by any means) is the inability of the British press to report on the EU without being willfully misleading. The headline "European £1bn IT programme to study three-legged dogs" is not strictly speaking false - it just fails to mention that that 1 billion will be used for many other things as well. A more reasonable article is here: European IT Research Gets €1.2 Billion From EU.

  4. Re:It's for locomotion research by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A robot might lose a leg. What if you have an all-terrain robot, rock climbing... it's useful to have 4 limbs, maybe 6 or 8. And then it loses random limbs....

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