McD

Not a joke!

I picked this up from another forum. One forum member said:

Shake

Yes, I saw that too. I ought to get at least one for my attic.

Norseman

I think it would starve in your attic (unless there happens to be a barn up there).

I think that's a really brilliant design. Now all we need are robots that can tear humans to peices and devour their flesh and we'll be all set to go to Iran, and Libya, and North Korea, and Sudan, and China, and France, and Germany, and Russia, and Brittain, and the Blue states, and Canada too!

Amen-Moses

Assuming you mean Britain, why would we attack ourselves? I reckon we would probably send such an invention to the US first.

Amen-Moses

Norseman

Oh that's right it's made in Britain (I've got to remember that). Well in any case, the design is out, we Americans can steal it and use it to eradicate all them terroris' and mooslems.

evil-religion

You would not want to send it over to Britain anyway. As Marge Simpson said "You are the mini me to our doctor evil". You would not want to hurt you mini me now would you? :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling:

Boro Nut

Get real. We have been playing you lot like an old fiddle for years. Check out the old cabinet minutes released under the 50 years rule.

"That Hitler chap wants a rematch. How can we kick his tits in without spending too much money?"

"This empire's more bother than it's worth. Where can we find someone to knock the gollies about for us without spending too much money?"

"Brilliant!!! The Americans have agreed to fund the National Health idea of mine."
"Fuck me. How did you pull that one off?"
"They said they would go for it if we let them build a base on Diego Garcia"
"Where the fuck is Drago Gas Ear?"
"I know. That's what I said."

"That was the French again. They want us to pull them out of the shit in Vietnam. We must do all we can of course. How can we we ensure their humiliation is both complete and utter without actually spending any money?"

"That Saddam Hussein has just called me a cunt. How can we smack his arse without spending any money?"

Boro Nut

evil-religion

errr I'm from London.

Sadly our colonial friends are the ones calling the shots these days. Blair is quite clearly Bush's bitch. I don't like it, but sadly its true.

BioBeing

Um, robots... houseflies... science... anybody?

Or do I have to boot this off to ~~E~~?

BioBeing,
S&S Moderator

travc

This reminds me very much of the slug-eating robots I have mentioned before. I have no idea if they are actually being produced, but I spent about an hour like 6 years ago talking with a fellow who was working on building robots which would go around orchards and collect slugs. The fun part was that the robots took the slugs back to a "queen" which fermented them to procude electricity and feed the "workers".

The really clever bit was that the queen could read the programming of the workers (and keep track of how many slugs they caught) and reprogram workers who sucked with variants of more successful workers programs. Additionally, workers could rescue other workers who run out of power (by giving them a bit of their own power) but the rescued worker would also inherit the programming of the rescuer.

There was one wrinkle though... nothing in the setup would keep the hive from "farming" slugs. If it could figure out a way to do it, increasing the total number of slugs in orchard would actually be in the best interest of the hive... so it might not end up working very well as a pest control method.