February 26, 2007: Terranaut

It's Neatorama collaboration Monday!



xoxoxoBruce finds this item which is apparently been around for a while, but I hadn't seen it before, so if it's new to me maybe it's new to you.



Seth Weiner is responsible for this thing - the camera watches where the fish goes, a computer determines where the fish is moving and moves the vehicle in that direction.

The YouTube video of it only makes it a little less mind-boggling; the vehicle doesn't really move that fast. And the fish has a pretty simple nervous system and probably wouldn't figure out, exactly, that it was somehow hooked up to a robot that could actually move it around.

Still, freaky!

Be sure to visit Neatorama for more neato items.

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...Why?

This does not bode well for Feminists

Now that the fish has a bicycle, does this mean that women DO need a man?

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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs Now that the fish has a bicycle, does this mean that women DO need a man?

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Originally Posted by Undertoad And the fish has a pretty simple nervous system and probably wouldn't figure out, exactly, that it was somehow hooked up to a robot that could actually move it around.

did you see the cockroach driven one? big gd roach.....nasty

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Originally Posted by lumberjim did you see the cockroach driven one? big gd roach.....nasty

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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs Now that the fish has a bicycle, does this mean that women DO need a man?

put some bettas in these(Siamese Fighting fish) and you could have a new version of Robot Wars.

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Originally Posted by Ibram ... ...Why?

That sucker needs more power. Bigger motor.... 300 horse power.... maybe some flashing lights and a siren. The kind of siren that makes people get out of the way, not the kind that lures you to crash your bowl on the rocks.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce That sucker needs more power. Bigger motor.... 300 horse power.... maybe some flashing lights and a siren. The kind of siren that makes people get out of the way, not the kind that lures you to crash your bowl on the rocks.

Wait a minute... this was a Futurama Episode. S1E8 - A Big Piece of Garbage. A prof. makes a 'reverse' SCUBA suit.

I want one !!!!!!!

It should be cool watching one of my turtles moving around the room in one of those, chasing my girlfriends buttugly fatass cat.

(and talk about simple nervous system, they are always trying to eat the hand that feeds them (and my girlfriends buttugly fatass cat))

(wich is offcourse one of the reasons i keep the little buggers around)

Hello Chinditz, welcome to the Cellar.
Uh...just how big are these attack turtles?

You could speed up the turtles as well...

Thank you for the nice welcome, I discovered this place a couple of days ago and fell heart over heels in love with it.

My 3 turtles (Hannibal Lector, Jeffrey Dahmer and Lizzy Borden, rest assured, serial killer names not chosen for some weird serial-killer fetish but rather to emphasize the sometimes somewhat unpleasant disposition of the turtles to people who despite my warnings still insist on putting their fingers in the turtle-pool) are a little bigger than my hand, about 20 years old and living proof that turtles can exist for years on a diet of Chicken McNuggets, potato chips and shoarma (I lived with a bunch of students way beyond my college-years)



There should be a pick of the biggest one, Hannibal (22 cm shield-size) just above (if I did not screw up the picture-posting thingie )

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Originally Posted by Chinditz Thank you for the nice welcome, I discovered this place a couple of days ago and fell heart over heels in love with it.

Nope, we live in houses that are due for either deconstruction or improvement and pay a nominal sum for rent, this is mostly to discourage junkies and other vermin from moving in and burning the place down, overdose and lay undiscovered for a couple of months, or fire large handguns at their neighbours which is considered quite rude here. There are actually quite a few former squatters among us (including me before I, to my own eternal surprise found myself employed in law-enforcement and actually enyoing it) its a nice way of living, we have a lot of pleasantly weird people, artists and professional party-goers among us and usualy end up giving huge partys when we "take-over" a area.

And it is, off course :" Head over heels"

Preview is not my friend.

Amazing. So who is your landlord? Is it the local government or private land owners?

No, its a commercial agency that a friend of mine set-up a couple of years ago, due to the great volume of improvement projects going on here, he is now making money beyond his wildest dreams. Still bummed about not getting in on the action when I had the chance

Nice kids and impressive number of posts by the way.

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Originally Posted by Chinditz No, its a commercial agency that a friend of mine set-up

Why is Hannibal looking at me like I'm a big chicken nugget?