Mohtalim

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:15 pm**

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles ... 69,00.html

Are Americans destined to be the scrawny and pathetic dweebs on the world’s economic beach?

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:44 pm**

scary but true. One of the reason I am so again people who push creationism is because I see those people as anti-science and anti-education. In the end it will bring us down, I don't think we can avoid it.

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:45 pm**

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm

I for one welcome our new robotic overlords.

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:51 pm**

Dwindlehop wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm

I for one welcome our new robotic overlords.

How long before robots are used for sex?

Didn't some magazine interview some CMU professors about robots a while ago and spend the whole time asking questions about having sex with robots?

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:38 pm**

Alan wrote:How long before robots are used for sex?

Before Repliee Q1, Professor Ishiguro developed Repliee R1 which had the appearance of a five-year-old Japanese girl.

not too long

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:04 pm**

"Repliee Q1 can interact with people. It can respond to people touching it. It's very satisfying, although we obviously have a long way to go yet."

Put that in the context of robot sex...

"An android could get away with it for a short time, 5-10 seconds. However, if we carefully select the situation, we could extend that, to perhaps 10 minutes," he said.

And that correct situation is...

Posted: **Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:28 am**

God hates the Boy Scouts

Electrocution, mass heat exhaustion, and now lightning strikes, all in one week. What more needs to happen for them to call off the stupid thing?

Mohtalim

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