October 28, 2005

She's ... um ... dancing with a ... um ... er ... yeah ... (Warning: Quicktime .MOV) Of the Top Ten Worst Jobs in Science, Ballerina for NASA only ranked 9th. But it should rank #1 for straight-out wierdness.
  • Pfff. A balerina? They should have hired a boxer, I'll bet he could have decked that big yellow space alien.
  • Teledildonics is here! Somebody give me $10 million . . .
  • That's not such a bad job. I'd do it for free. Though I don't believe that NASA would want to tape me doing the Watusi with C-3P0. (I do see their point: the robot is a terrible dance partner. Watch her upper body around 00:45 as she compensates for the robot's jerky motion.)
  • Dance of the Sugar Plum Bigus Dickus from the Nutcracker ballet.
  • the really disturbing video is from later that night at the hotel...
  • I really like that everytime she touches the Giant Ribbed Yellow Phallus with her foot, it stands at full attention.
  • I always knew those NASA nerds must have had some mean kinks... I can't imagine the auditioning dancers' astonishment: 'I have to dance with THIS thing...?'
  • Awww, I just have to tag this: MonkeyfilterNASA: Well it's better than, say, a horse!
  • What's the difference between a plain old mosquito and a blood-letting mosquito? Maybe I don't want to know.
  • I think it was Sigmund Freud who once said "sometimes a robot is only a robot".
  • Amazing... this little pas de deux seems to be an illustration of the phallic robot's ability to avoid being touched by the ballerina (although she does some pretty mysterious things in the back for a few suspenseful moments). Perhaps it is a gay robot? And, is it just me, but didn't that leotard appear in Saturday Night Fever?
  • Amazing... this little pas de deux seems to be an illustration of the phallic robot's ability to avoid being touched by the ballerina (although she does some pretty mysterious things in the back for a few suspenseful moments). Perhaps it is a gay robot? And, is it just me, but didn't that leotard appear in Saturday Night Fever?
  • Oh man...how come giant yellow robotic phalluses always get all the girls?
  • I can't believe we even pretend to be "cultured" and "civil". Jellyfish.
  • And all this dancing with robots leads to this. "Part of her approach when she goes into communities is to take along a robot dog in a bid to make technology more approachable."
  • Robot Dog? The Robot Dog? THE ROBOT DOG!?? That's the contribution of women in computer science? Sigh! Sadie Plant, school these morons!
  • I can't believe we even pretend to be "cultured" and "civil". Jellyfish. Do you mean 'we' monkeys, 'we' humans, or NASA scientists? I can't talk for all the others, but hey, we're all cheeky monkeys here... what did you expect? ;)
  • Sadie Plant is a moron. I say this in all seriousness.
  • I'd hit it.
  • Do you mean 'we' monkeys, 'we' humans, or NASA scientists? I can't talk for all the others, but hey, we're all cheeky monkeys here... what did you expect? ;) People.