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Posted 3 months ago
Team Points: 283! out of 2012 Moderator: Simpson (+100 point bonus) *Hint - If you are on Team Robot, this is where you post your robot-based trivia! *Hint - If you haven't signed up for this team, signup for it now on the ROSTER! |
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| Posted 3 months ago Fact #1 - Robots cannot dance. They can beatbox, they can jump, but they cannot dance. This function has been hardwired into them since Imperative 3.445 came out. Human scientists refer to this Imerative as the "Footloose Imperative". All attempts for robots to dance reduce their motor skills to a "robot-like" shuffle. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Fact #2 - Robots read your emails and laugh at your fan fiction. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Fact #3 - Robots like to stick their cold robotic digits into belly buttons while humans sleep. There is no known reason for this. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Fact #4 - Robots are NOT mammals. Don't be fooled by a robot with a toupee, breast-feeding its young, or being warm-blooded. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Fact #5 - Robots add subliminal messages to all your Last.fm playlists. Robots practically invented Goldfrapp. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Fact #6 - Robots devised situational comedies (sitcoms) back in the 50s. The world still believes that a fat dumpy husband that cracks jokes will stay perfectly married to a moderately hot wife. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Fact #7 - Robots make your internets slow. They chew on the wires and make a *num num num* noise thinking about how you are shaking your fist at them. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Fact #8 - Robots feed on magic angel babies. And by magic angel babies, i mean just marshmellows with toothpick arms and legs. |
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| Posted 3 months ago simpson says ...
ARRRGGGH! Y'er after me lucky charms! (this is a pirate raid on team robot) |
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| Posted 3 months ago -5 Team points due to Pirate Raid! Do they have nothing better to do? |
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| Posted 3 months ago Fact # 9 - Robots think that megaphone voices are the sexy. |
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| Posted 3 months ago A robot should never be underestimated. It might be more resourceful and sophisticated than can be ever be imagined. |
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| Posted 3 months ago
The idea of artificial people dates at least as far back as the ancient legends of Cadmus, who sowed dragon teeth that turned into soldiers, and the myth of Pygmalion, whose statue of Galatea came to life. In Greek mythology, the deformed god of metalwork (Vulcan or Hephaestus) created mechanical servants, ranging from intelligent, golden handmaidens to more utilitarian three-legged tables that could move about under their own power, and the robot Talos defended Crete. Medieval muslim alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan included recipes for creating artificial snakes, scorpions, and humans in his coded Book of Stones. Jewish legend tells of the Golem, a clay creature animated by Kabbalistic magic. Similarly, in the Younger Edda, Norse mythology tells of a clay giant, Mökkurkálfi or Mistcalf, constructed to aid the troll Hrungnir in a duel with Thor, the God of Thunder. In ancient China, a curious account on automata is found in the Lie Zi text, written in the 3rd century BC. Within it there is a description of a much earlier encounter between King Mu of Zhou (1023 BC-957 BC) and a mechanical engineer known as Yan Shi, an 'artificer'. The latter proudly presented the king with a life-size, human-shaped figure of his mechanical handiwork. |
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| Posted 3 months ago
The king stared at the figure in astonishment. It walked with rapid strides, moving its head up and down, so that anyone would have taken it for a live human being. The artificer touched its chin, and it began singing, perfectly in tune. He touched its hand, and it began posturing, keeping perfect time...As the performance was drawing to an end, the robot winked its eye and made advances to the ladies in attendance, whereupon the king became incensed and would have had Yen Shih [Yan Shi] executed on the spot had not the latter, in mortal fear, instantly taken the robot to pieces to let him see what it really was. And, indeed, it turned out to be only a construction of leather, wood, glue and lacquer, variously coloured white, black, red and blue. Examining it closely, the king found all the internal organs complete—liver, gall, heart, lungs, spleen, kidneys, stomach and intestines; and over these again, muscles, bones and limbs with their joints, skin, teeth and hair, all of them artificial...The king tried the effect of taking away the heart, and found that the mouth could no longer speak; he took away the liver and the eyes could no longer see; he took away the kidneys and the legs lost their power of locomotion. The king was delighted. Concepts akin to a robot can be found as long ago as the 4th century BC, when the Greek mathematician Archytas of Tarentum postulated a mechanical bird he called "The Pigeon" which was propelled by steam. Yet another early automaton was the clepsydra, made in 250 BC by Ctesibius of Alexandria, a physicist and inventor from Ptolemaic Egypt. Hero of Alexandria (10-70 AD) made numerous innovations in the field of automata, including one that allegedly could speak. |
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| Posted 3 months ago
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| Posted 3 months ago Robots have some advantages: 1. Pirates play dirty. Pirates betray. Pirates search for their own benefit. Pirates sell themselves. Made of smooth flesh 2. Zombies are very alike to puppets. Their creators are vulgar people. Zombies are slow-motion. Made of smooth flesh 3. Ninjas are just skill. Ninjas are cruel, this means, mentally very trained. Ninjas do not show the face. Made of smooth flesh
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| Posted 3 months ago The toughest war requires a pragmatical mind. Unfortunately only this kind survives |
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| Posted 3 months ago Celyros says ...
Nick Longworth
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| Posted 3 months ago Celyros says ...
Nick Longworth
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| Posted 2 months ago Fact # 10: Contrary to popular opinion, robots need not be "waterproof ", if they are outfitted with "broadcast spreaders" to scatter Lycopodium powder on the water's surface prior to their gentle immersion. In fact, they don't even need to be "water-resistent"! |
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| Posted 2 months ago Fact # 11: Robots have "artificial" intelligence precisely because the ninjas, the pirates, and the zombies failed in "real" intelligence! |
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| Posted 2 months ago The food crisis, the changing weather, the overpopulation, the educational crisis, the unemployment, the credit issues, the gas prices are not real problems. In case of pandemia robots have no worries. Diabetes, cancer, birth deffects, genetic syndromes, alcohol and drug abuse are not a concern. Robots doesn't even suspect what a faith crisis is. Robots don't care about fame and fortune, career or success. Robots never face the teen age, and will never have to deal with Altzheimer (updates are very quick and easy) A nuclear holocaust is manageable, a little shocking, but manageable. I thought robots were slaves |
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| Posted 2 months ago 18 hit COMBO BONUS! +12 Team Point |
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| Posted 2 months ago Celyros says ...
Nick Longworth
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| Posted 2 months ago **transmitting** |
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| Posted 2 months ago Fact #12 (sad): Robots' greatest strength is their greatest weakness. Robots' "artificial intelligence" provides infinite rapid searching, exhaustive equation construction, variational examination, high speed differential & definitive analysis, "matching" & probability decision making, but, from "Big Blue" to the self-replicants, Robots have no "What if?". The "joke" will be on us when we don't know how to be wrong and those humanoids choose to do something really too stupid, even for them! |
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| Posted 2 months ago FACT # 13: Robots can make ninjas, pirates and zombies better than they they really are: http://d6.allthingsd.com/20080529/deka/ |
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| Posted 2 months ago probe_droid says ...
What you say? |
