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The Grand Hallway => The Outer Fortress => Topic started by: Tapewolf on December 26, 2006, 04:43:39 PM

Title: Robot deer
Post by: Tapewolf on December 26, 2006, 04:43:39 PM
Just saw this on Slashdot.  It's a few days old but people may find it amusing.  If it's already been mentioned and I missed it, chuck it in the mine or something...

http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2006-12-20-voa34.cfm
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: Sid on December 26, 2006, 05:04:06 PM
*grins* Nice!
Now they need to develop the next version. The one that automatically shoots back... >:3
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on December 26, 2006, 06:16:03 PM
... mount a chain gun on a deer?

After all, the robot deer can't run away, and you've got to make things fair... :-)
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: xHaZxMaTx on December 26, 2006, 06:35:25 PM
What's next, robot chickens?  ...Oh wait. :P
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: superluser on December 26, 2006, 07:18:24 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on December 26, 2006, 06:16:03 PM... mount a chain gun on a deer?

For the record, it only took one hour, 28 minutes for someone to post the ``frikin' laser beams'' thing.
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on December 26, 2006, 07:25:49 PM
*laugh*

Surely not. Surely we're all more mature than that? :-)
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: LionHeart on December 27, 2006, 04:24:41 AM
Reminds me of With a Tangled Skein.
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on December 27, 2006, 05:50:24 AM
I forget which one of those had Mars wandering through a dojo.

I kinda liked the style he went through it with, however.
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: LionHeart on December 27, 2006, 11:47:35 AM
That was With a Tangled Skein (the third one in the series, which dealt with Fate).

That scene was where Clotho (the youngest Aspect) got into a duel with the martial arts expert who ran the dojo, and asked Mars to be her champion/second (I don't remember which).

I believe that later, she "stepped down" in order to marry the martial arts expert. I don't think it was actually in that book, but it was referred to in one of the later ones.

I haven't read that book in a while, but I would like to find a copy of it for my collection.
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: Slavkei on December 27, 2006, 03:08:14 PM
Quote from: LionHeart on December 27, 2006, 11:47:35 AM
That was With a Tangled Skein (the third one in the series, which dealt with Fate).

That scene was where Clotho (the youngest Aspect) got into a duel with the martial arts expert who ran the dojo, and asked Mars to be her champion/second (I don't remember which).

I believe that later, she "stepped down" in order to marry the martial arts expert. I don't think it was actually in that book, but it was referred to in one of the later ones.

I haven't read that book in a while, but I would like to find a copy of it for my collection.

Hmmm... Piers Anthony's "Incarnations" series?
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: Zedd on December 27, 2006, 04:47:24 PM
Soon it will turn rouge on its owner and bash the living bluest of blue hell out of his fucking arse!  :mwaha :veryevil
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on December 27, 2006, 05:38:36 PM
Quote from: Slavkei on December 27, 2006, 03:08:14 PM
Hmmm... Piers Anthony's "Incarnations" series?

Yah, we were discussing Incarnations of Immortality.

Some nice touches, and a few fun points, but by the end of it, lowest bidder. Pity, really...
Title: Re: Robot deer
Post by: Valynth on December 27, 2006, 07:08:06 PM
I hope the courts realise that this form of capture is not entrapment since it is simply the poacher's free choice to shoot a deer by the road.