Big Dog
And here's another science-fiction image brought to life: Boston Dynamics' Big Dog. Watching this thing move is like the Imperial Probot from Empire Strikes Back mixed with a bit of The Fly.
What I fail to understand is why 100% of the world's residents *aren't* science fiction fans, given that we live in a science fiction world. Or is it that we simply make an artificial distinction between 'news' and 'fiction', between 'reporting', 'research', 'extrapolation', and 'speculation', between 'absolutely impossible' and 'not yet observed'? But they're all points on the same curve: we observe, we imagine, we predict, we experiment, we adjust our sense of reality. One blends into the other; if you try to artificially separate them, you lose sight of the terrifying intensity of the changes we're living through right now.
And that's just from a materialist perspective, before you even start to factor in the 'impossible' things which have been happening for millenia in the realms of the psychic, spiritual, or religious, and which our science for the most part has yet to digest.
(Both this and the Audeo via this article in the Boston Phoenix.)
May 24th, 2008 - 17:58
Ihave a classmate who is a famous writer. I’m not very patient when it comes to reading, but I would be able to read his books, if he could leave out the junk he feels he has to pepper his writings with………So what you say about Science Fiction is right, but there are too many flies in that soup, at least as far as I’m concerned.
May 24th, 2008 - 22:17
Re.: Three in The Afternoon………Once again I did not get the point! Is there one??
May 25th, 2008 - 03:44
Re: EWOKs How can a little kid cope with that?
May 25th, 2008 - 03:45
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May 25th, 2008 - 19:16
The only point to ‘Three in the Afternoon’ is ‘Lightsabers are cool’, I’m afraid. :)