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Old 02-26-2007, 10:29 AM   #1
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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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Old 02-26-2007, 10:40 AM   #2
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Old 02-26-2007, 10:50 AM   #3
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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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Old 02-26-2007, 10:52 AM   #4
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Now that the fish has a bicycle, does this mean that women DO need a man?
Oh God I hope not.
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Old 02-26-2007, 10:59 AM   #5
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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.
Especially if they put it in a featureless white room...
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Old 02-26-2007, 11:27 AM   #6
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did you see the cockroach driven one? big gd roach.....nasty
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Old 02-26-2007, 11:29 AM   #7
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did you see the cockroach driven one? big gd roach.....nasty

A roach coach? hahaha
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Old 02-26-2007, 12:42 PM   #8
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Old 02-26-2007, 01:22 PM   #9
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put some bettas in these(Siamese Fighting fish) and you could have a new version of Robot Wars.
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Old 02-26-2007, 05:11 PM   #10
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Because some people have too much time on their hands.
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Old 02-26-2007, 05:14 PM   #11
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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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Old 02-26-2007, 05:19 PM   #12
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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.
300 SEAhorse power.
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Old 02-27-2007, 07:23 PM   #13
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Wait a minute... this was a Futurama Episode. S1E8 - A Big Piece of Garbage. A prof. makes a 'reverse' SCUBA suit.
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Old 03-20-2007, 02:19 PM   #14
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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)
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Old 03-20-2007, 09:06 PM   #15
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Hello Chinditz, welcome to the Cellar.
Uh...just how big are these attack turtles?
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