February 15, 2006

• Slime control? I'm waiting for Prince's version.
• What's bright yellow, slimy, several metres in diameter, hides in dark, moist, humid places, responds to food sources by moving towards and engulfing them? A new MonkeyFilter poster?
• I for one welcome... Oh forget it.
• That thing I found in my sink the other day? *shudders*
• Your ex-wife?
• Damn it i always knew that the biology experiment in the rear of my fridge had a use!!!! That was just before it strangled the cat..............
• Wow. Wow! Now, where's MY robot avatar, dammit! (I was deeply affected by Tiptree's "The Girl Who Was Plugged In) at an early age.) Awesome story.
• I meant the news story, not the Tiptree one. Althought that's awesome, too. Pantsie need more coffee...
• Am I the only one who finds this completely fucking terrifying?
• "The six-legged hexapod robot is remotely-controlled by slime" I don't think it fair for the media to refer to Bush, Cheney and DeLay as a "six-legged hexapod robot". It's just not nice.
• It would only be terrifying, Capt., if the robot doesn't sign a non-disclosure consent form first. /ponders her own little robot doing sundry, tedious tasks.
• no capt. I was afeared to click the link at first, certain I would see a giant six-legged arachnoidal slime monster...ugh!!! and in fact...
• Am I the only one who finds this completely fucking terrifying? No, you are having a natural reaction which might be described as: "Jeezus, this so clearly is an invention that, down the road, is something we will not have control of and don't know the ramifications of and I have no idea if the people who are doing this sort of thing have thought about that seriously as well. I mean, we're not even sure as a society how we feel about human-robotic amalgams or cyborgs and now we're dealing with cybernetic slime moulds." At least, that's how I took it.
• yeah, BearGuy, perhaps influenced by 2001: man vs. technology???
• It's still not half as cool as the roachbot, which works on the same principle but was designed a couple of years earlier.
• As someone who did a term-long bio experiment with the same mold, there is NOTHING to fear. It took three days to eat an oat. It isn't going to suddenly suffocate you in the night, robot or no robot.
• once I found a large slug in my kitchen stealing a piece of dry cat food. it was a very funny site, the slug "u'd" around the single bite of cat fud, slowly sliming its way across the floor. (to its hidden catfud lair I have no doubt!)
• cobaltnine: there is NOTHING to fear. It took three days to eat an oat. Tell that to the oat. What a way to go. Slowly consumed over a three day period. It would have been hell for the oat. Poor oat.
• Yeah, but I'll bet that was maybe a cup of slime, cobaltnin. Get a ton of slime together with a cyber mind, and it could eat you in three days! Am I the only one that thinks slugs are teh cute?
• Mmm slugs.. sexy naked snails.
• Wimmy-wam-wam-wozzle!
• at the very least, presumably, a ton of slime could eat a bowl of oatmeal ;)
• jeshush crashed! what do I do for a living? oh I write html code? is that it?? oooh...
• getting to know me fact one is I'm not fond of slime
• remember The Blob?
• We. Have. Seen. Our. Doom.
• All your slime are belong to us.
• Well, let's be honest, this is just a distraction for the cephalopodian takeover of 2012.
• Slime not happy with this post. Even if Tellurian is a fungi, I think it'spore manners to post something like this.