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"Demonic" robotic spider

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
edited 2017-08-02 03:30 in General Discussion
'Posting this without comment:

https://cnstopstories.com/2017/08/01/ottawa-archbishop-surprised-by-negative-reaction-to-robotic-spider-on-cathedral/

There's really not much more to say ...

-Phil

Comments

  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    Sacrilegious? Nonsense. Spiders are just another type of God's creatures. Amirite Bre'r Whit?

  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    See also

  • Jeff HaasJeff Haas Posts: 421
    Same group that had the giant ant roaming around Maker Faire in San Mateo! Really amazing work.
  • xanaduxanadu Posts: 3,347
    I find this post offensive. I'm willing to bet that thing is full of Arduinos.
  • HughHugh Posts: 362
    There was a similar problem (on a much smaller scale) here a few years ago - some 'art' consisting of spiders with human heads was removed for "distracting traffic" and "potentially frightening small children".

  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    Are there actually people on the spider controlling it? Can't tell from my perspective if they are real or manicans.

    I'm Catholic, and don't see anything wrong with it. We do have a good share of complainers though.
  • ian991ian991 Posts: 2
    Holy **** this is terrifying.
    Here's an article about spider robots but on a more positive way :P
    A really interesting post
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2018-03-03 18:31
    Spiders are God's creatures too you know.

    Sure they have disgusting eating habits, some like eating their mates or trying to poison everything.

    God's development team tried all kind of possibilities, 8 legs (and more), 6 legs, 4 legs. Then they hit on a great idea, if you had a good enough control system only 2 legs is required, the other appendages can be repurposed for other useful tasks.

    Brilliant!

    Edit: We might wonder why God's dev. team did not push the idea to just 1 leg?



  • YanomaniYanomani Posts: 1,524
    They did!

    The prototype was tested at the brazilian forests, before releasing him, for general genetic distribution purposes.

    But it was not that successful as they intended to do. He developed the bad inhabit of smoking and other disguising trickery.

    Perhaps the Magic Smoke, flowing out from his pipe, was the reason that made the team decide to keep it, only as memories...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saci_(Brazilian_folklore)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2018-03-04 09:34
    Ah, the mysterious monopod creatures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopod_(creature)

    180px-Sciapode.jpg
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