Re: [FairfieldLife] Elsewhere in SKYNET News
On 10/30/2014 5:00 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 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. On the front lawn of Graceland? I guess somebody would have noticed this, right? /Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley/ by Peter Guralnick Little, Brown and Company, Dec 1, 2014 /Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley/ by Peter Guralnick Little, Brown and Company, Dec 20, 2012
Re: [FairfieldLife] Elsewhere in SKYNET News
Robot Wars part deux?I have friends that participated in those games from day one. On 10/30/2014 03:00 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 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 Preview by Yahoo
