Well, I was around 5 or 6 when I first saw the movie. I guess it was that it did all the things this chem-robot is supposed to do. I was always looking under door cracks and checking out the vents. Plus when I looked out of my bedroom into a partially illuminated hallway, I could always convince myself that any rounded shadow was moving, and therefore might be the blob.
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > Ha-ha! The Blob scared you? Why is that? Although, I guess I can understand > that. > > What used to creep me out was that bubble hunter thing from "The Prisoner", > that would chase down and cover people, leaving the outline of the screaming > person inside. I'd start having trouble breathing as soon as I saw that > thing bouncing across the sand. Movies dealing with malevolent spiritual > beings--vengeful spirits of the dead, evil demons--can get me too, since I > was raised in a very traditional Christian tradition, and thoughts of > servants of the Devil and stuff still hit that inner part that fears pure > Evil. > > You know, outside of that, few movie monsters or supernatural creatures > scare me, at least, in terms of staying with me much past the movie. But > what can stay with me in the light night when the house is creaking? > Anything I've seen about serial killers and all-too-mortal psychoe: movies > like "Psycho", the first "Friday the 13th", "Halloween". I never worry too > much about opening the front door in the wee hours and seeing Dracula, > Frankenstein, or the Wolfman on my front stoop. But a crazy, cannibalistic > killer like a Dahmer who's running around with a knife or ax or something? > It's not out of the realm of possibility... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tracy Curtis" <tlcurti...@gmail.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:22:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot > amazes and terrifies > > > > This brings back my childhood fear of the blob. > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> It can also be used as a weapon, after a fashion. Just looking at it makes >> my stomach do slow rolls... >> >> >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies >>> by Leslie Katz <http://www.cnet.com/profile/Leslie+Katz/> >>> >>> - Font size >>> - Print >>> - E-mail >>> - Share >>> - 27 >>> comments<http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html#comments> >>> - Yahoo! >>> Buzz<http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=cnet_crave854&guid=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html%3Ftag%3Dyahoobuzz> >>> >>> >>> Share503<http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html&t=iRobot%27s%20oozy%20ChemBot%20amazes%20and%20terrifies%20%7C%20Crave%20-%20CNET&src=sp> >>> >>> For now, it's palm-size, sure, but what if something terrible happens, >>> and it can't stop inflating? >>> (Credit: YouTube screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) >>> >>> We're getting a first glimpse of that shape-shifting >>> ChemBot<http://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-9970345-72.html>we first told you >>> about last year, and well, it looks like the love child of >>> a beating heart and a wad of Silly Putty. >>> >>> The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research >>> Office awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to iRobot to create the >>> flexible military bot. The maker of the Roomba and Scooba, along with >>> University of Chicago researchers, showed off the oozy results at the Iros >>> conference<http://www.iros09.mtu.edu/index.php/IROS_2009:_The_2009_IEEE/RSJ_International_Conference_on_Intelligent_RObots_and_Systems>(the >>> IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in >>> St. Louis this week. >>> >>> DARPA envisions the palm-size ChemBot as a mobile robot that can traverse >>> soft terrain and navigate through small openings, such as tiny wall cracks, >>> during reconnaissance and search-and-rescue missions. It gets around by way >>> of a process called "jamming," in which material can transition between >>> semiliquid and solid states with only a slight change in volume. >>> >>> In ChemBot's case, a flexible silicone skin encapsulates a series of >>> pockets containing a mix of air and loosely packed particles. When air is >>> removed from the compartments, the skin attempts to equalize the pressure >>> differential by constricting the particles, which shift slightly to fill the >>> void left by the evacuated air. >>> >>> In that way, the weird little blob inflates and deflates parts of its >>> body, changing size and shape--and scaring the living daylights out of us. >>> We don't know exactly when ChemBot will join the Armed Forces, but we can >>> only beg: please, oh please, keep it away from us. >>> >>> *(Via IEEE >>> Spectrum<http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/irobot-soft-morphing-blob-chembot>) >>> * >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell >> wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >> > > >
