February 26, 2007: Terranaut

Undertoad • Feb 26, 2007 11:29 am

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.

Ibby • Feb 26, 2007 11:40 am

...

...Why?

Sheldonrs • Feb 26, 2007 11:50 am

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

Shawnee123 • Feb 26, 2007 11:52 am

Sheldonrs;318415 wrote:
Now that the fish has a bicycle, does this mean that women DO need a man?

Oh God I hope not.

Happy Monkey • Feb 26, 2007 11:59 am

Undertoad;318413 wrote:
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...

lumberjim • Feb 26, 2007 12:27 pm

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

Sheldonrs • Feb 26, 2007 12:29 pm

lumberjim;318421 wrote:
did you see the cockroach driven one? big gd roach.....nasty

A roach coach? hahaha

monster • Feb 26, 2007 1:42 pm

Sheldonrs;318415 wrote:
Now that the fish has a bicycle, does this mean that women DO need a man?

:lol2:

barefoot serpent • Feb 26, 2007 2:22 pm

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

Kingswood • Feb 26, 2007 6:11 pm

Ibram;318414 wrote:
...

...Why?

Because some people have too much time on their hands.

xoxoxoBruce • Feb 26, 2007 6:14 pm

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. :headshake

Sheldonrs • Feb 26, 2007 6:19 pm

xoxoxoBruce;318504 wrote:
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. :headshake

300 SEAhorse power.

Stonan • Feb 27, 2007 8:23 pm

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

Chinditz • Mar 20, 2007 3:19 pm

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)

xoxoxoBruce • Mar 20, 2007 10:06 pm

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

Griff • Mar 21, 2007 7:45 am

You could speed up the turtles as well...

Clodfobble • Mar 21, 2007 11:56 am

xoxoxoBruce wrote:
Uh...just how big are these attack turtles?

Chinditz • Mar 21, 2007 12:03 pm

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 :blush: )

glatt • Mar 21, 2007 12:15 pm

Chinditz;324971 wrote:
Thank you for the nice welcome, I discovered this place a couple of days ago and fell heart over heels in love with it.

It is a nice place isn't it? So I looked at your linked homepage. I like the few pictures that are there.

What is "anti squat" housing? Are you a squatter, or are you an anti-squatter, doing battle with them and tossing them out of their homes to use for yourself?

Chinditz • Mar 21, 2007 12:44 pm

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.

Chinditz • Mar 21, 2007 12:45 pm

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

Preview is not my friend.

glatt • Mar 21, 2007 12:47 pm

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

Chinditz • Mar 21, 2007 12:53 pm

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:thepain:

Chinditz • Mar 21, 2007 12:54 pm

Nice kids and impressive number of posts by the way.

glatt • Mar 21, 2007 1:00 pm

Chinditz;324998 wrote:
No, its a commercial agency that a friend of mine set-up

That's really neat. I'd never heard of that before.

*starts thinking about vacant buildings in DC area*

xoxoxoBruce • Mar 21, 2007 7:59 pm

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

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