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[casandra]

....this is the kind of robot I like (you more so) :

[hobglobin]

didn't know that you're a Battlestar Galactica fan
and this are the preliminary tests, until the robot type was changed (best without sound):

[toejam]

robo talk? what about these?

[casandra]

ok...this is the fuller version of those flying robot thingies.....

Edited by casandra, 12 March 2012 - 06:38 PM.

[hobglobin]

And here on the left side the newly described horse fly (or gad fly) with the interesting name Scaptia beyonceae

Why this name? Because of the conspicuous "buttocks"

[casandra]

this is very interesting...and beautiful as well.....

[casandra]

Here are two great TED videos on Biomimicry, a "new discipline that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems":


Michael Pawlyn is a British architect who headed the Eden Project: http://en.wikipedia....ki/Eden_Project and has been working on environmentally sustainable projects that are influenced by nature.








Janine M. Benyus is an American natural sciences writer who popularised the term biomimicry through her books and founder of a non-profit organisation-the Biomimicry Institute.

[casandra]

The Canadian gov't has once again launched the search for Sir John Franklin's ill-fated ships, HMS Terror and HMS Eresbus in the arctic...read the history of the Franklin expedition here: http://www.cbc.ca/ne...anklin/history/;

the mystery surrounding their disappearance: http://www.cbc.ca/ne...expedition.html


how scientists preserve the artifacts: http://www.cbc.ca/ne...canada-lab.html

and Discovery Channel's featured miniseries about the search for the northwest passage: part I

Edited by casandra, 09 September 2012 - 06:06 PM.

[casandra]

And for the comic relief, the Origin of X:

http://www.ted.com/t...he_unknown.html

[toejam]

for the Tolkien fans

http://metronews.ca/...ut-of-balloons/

[hobglobin]

I'm sure this dude is an android...a podgy one but an android...he did not even smile once...and the result looks like a sausage-shop...

[casandra]

hobglobin, on 13 November 2012 - 07:47 AM, said:

I'm sure this dude is an android...a podgy one but an android...he did not even smile once...and the result looks like a sausage-shop...

well, let me see you smile after blowing up thousands of balloons...and you know what comes after this? lots of pesky kids.....they go hand in hand......

[hobglobin]

well he used a pump...he should have done the blowing balloons himself...then it would have been good for his weight too

[casandra]

blow up thousands of balloons, then he'd surely pass out....then what about the kids?

[hobglobin]

casandra, on 13 November 2012 - 08:37 AM, said:

blow up thousands of balloons, then he'd surely pass out....then what about the kids?

more responsible for the grey hair and wrinkles...but shouting at them might also increase your fitness