[FairfieldLife] Re: Elsewhere in SKYNET News

2014-10-30 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
First the butt bouncers, and now this!  

 Barry, you've got work to do son.
 

 Start an institute or something.  The BW Institute of How I Can Set The World 
Wright
 

 If only they would listen to me.  Why, ferchristsakes is the world not 
beating a path to my door
 

 LRs, LRs, Heed My Call! Double down on your efforts to spread the world. A 
back page mention of Doug Hamilton in Wine Spectator, (or whatever it was) is 
not sufficient.  Not Sufficient I Tell You!
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :

 Old news, in one respect. I once read that Elvis' idea of fun was inviting 
friends over to his estate, issuing each of them an enormous bulldozer, and 
then having big dinosaur battles as they rammed them into one another until 
only one was left still running.


But as crazy as that might have been, at least the bulldozers weren't doing 
this on their own. These guys want to build robots to do the same thing, and 
given the popularity of drones it's just a matter of time before they take the 
human pilots out of the equation. What could go wrong with an idea like that? 
 :-)

 Startup wants to raise $1.8 million to build giant fighting robots


  
  
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 Startup wants to raise $1.8 million to build giant fight... 
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/29/megabots-kickstarter/?ncid=rss_truncated The 
folks at MegaBots Inc. dream of making humongous machines: 15-foot-tall, 
15,000-pound piloted robots to be exact. And they don't want to build them


 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Elsewhere in SKYNET News

2014-10-30 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]

On 10/30/2014 7:05 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:


First the butt bouncers, and now this!



Where do you think Barry gets these stories? If this is an example of 
his science reporting, he should maybe take a reality check. Go figure.


/Elvis Presley: A Southern Life/
by Joel Williamson
Oxford University Press; 1 edition, November 13, 2014






Barry, you've got work to do son.

Start an institute or something.  The BW Institute of How I Can Set 
The World Wright


If only they would listen to me.  Why, ferchristsakes is the world 
not beating a path to my door


LRs, LRs, Heed My Call! Double down on your efforts to spread the 
world. A back page mention of Doug Hamilton in Wine Spectator, (or 
whatever it was) is not sufficient.  Not Sufficient I Tell You!



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :

Old news, in one respect. I once read that Elvis' idea of fun was 
inviting friends over to his estate, issuing each of them an enormous 
bulldozer, and then having big dinosaur battles as they rammed them 
into one another until only one was left still running.


But as crazy as that might have been, at least the bulldozers weren't 
doing this on their own. These guys want to build robots to do the 
same thing, and given the popularity of drones it's just a matter of 
time before they take the human pilots out of the equation. What 
could go wrong with an idea like that?  :-)


Startup wants to raise $1.8 million to build giant fighting robots 
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/29/megabots-kickstarter/?ncid=rss_truncated



image 
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/29/megabots-kickstarter/?ncid=rss_truncated






Startup wants to raise $1.8 million to build giant fight... 
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/29/megabots-kickstarter/?ncid=rss_truncated 

The folks at MegaBots Inc. dream of making humongous machines: 
15-foot-tall, 15,000-pound piloted robots to be exact. And they don't 
want to build them


View on www.engadget.com 
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/29/megabots-kickstarter/?ncid=rss_truncated


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