Aliens, Image, Robotics Gone Wild
Check out these incredible pics taken in Perth, Australia and posted on Flickr. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?
It looks like it MOVED from one pic to the other. Am I losing it? Please tell me it’s just a crane. A water tower! (A water tower in the water? Please just humor me, TRED-heads.) I know, maybe it’s an oil well– yes, it must be an oil well. A giant, flexible, multi-jointed, living oil well. It is certainly NOT an alien robot, right?. . . BUT WAIT — there’s more—-
My hawk’s eye has spotted some very dangerous prey, TRED-ers. And I can’t help thinking that the brainiacs of Earth are just ASKING for trouble. Researchers at Harvard and MIT are experimenting with the new discovery of SHAPE-SHIFTING programmable matter! Oh yes, people, be very afraid. Apparently researchers “are actually making progress” on this new fringe science that could one day lead to “morphing aircraft and ground vehicles, uniforms that can alter themselves to be comfortable in any climate, and ’soft’ robots that flow like mercury through small openings to enter caves and bunker complexes.”
This article on Wired tries to put a positive spin on the whole thing, saying that “a soldier could even reach into a can of unformed goop, and order up a custom-made tool or a ‘universal spare part.’” Yes, we’d love our military personnel to be able to change the tire on their Humvee with just a glob of programmable ooze. But what if this goo becomes sentient? I mean, we all came from the primordial soup.
What if this gunk turns into giant, flesh-pounding robots, eating entire cities of helpless humans? And even more scary is this Intel angle — using this programmable matter to create 3D replicants of people in REAL TIME! “These 3D models would be physical entities, not holograms. You could touch them and interact with them, just as if the originals were in the room with you.”
Oh, help us, Obi-Wan. You’re our only hope!
As many of you know, the annual place to be when it comes to all things electronic gaming is E3. Many of you also know that you have to be a “professional” to get in. So, we figured we’d go check it out and report back to all of YOU on the bevy of booth babes that would surely roam the convention floor.
But NOOOOOOO!! Apparently, TRED isn’t “professional” enough for the fascists controlling access to the convention. They denied our request to attend so we decided to “insert” some credentials into the E3 mainframe…both Sharkatron3000 and I tried backdooring the system to create passes but were again denied- they have some pretty powerful stuff– a bit suspect, actually.
So when Leo saw these pictures of all the babeliciousness (including his beloved Munn) he was way too bummed to even talk about it and asked me pass along the eye candy.
So here you are: enjoy the booth babes of E3….
Oh, and by the way, E3-Luddites, bloggers are the new generation — some of us are more professional than the so-called “mainstream media.” So just you wait for next years’ expo. Because the Fassinator is gonna get nasstinator on your assinator, and you’re gonna be very SORRY. (Although, if you do decide to let us in, we’d love to come.)
Okay, okay. This guy got cute pictures and all. But what do they mean? Why would aliens come allllll the way over here just to sight- see in Eau Galle, Wisconsin? Well, I have a gut feeling there’s more to this UFO sighting than meets the eye. I think it might be down to the LETTER with this one, folks. See, at first I ran “Eau Galle” through the codebreaker app I’ve written, and I got “glee alau” and “alee gaul” (Looked that one up in Wiki — possible Napoleon/dictator reference? No, different spelling — I moved on.) My program also spit out some English words, like “legal” and “glue” — but there were still letters left over.
BUT HOLD ON THERE! Then I expanded my selection to include “Eau Galle, Wisconsin” — and suddenly it says, “NOW SEE US CALLING — A.I.” Omigod omigod. WTE. OMG. WTEIGOH? (That’s “what-the-EFF-is- going-on-here?” TRADEMARK!) Look long and hard at these pretty pictures people. Wisconsin ain’t just for cheese anymore. (shiver.)
The A.I. is calling us — question is: should we answer?
Apocalypse, Conspiracy, Japanation, Robotics Gone Wild
Yes, people, it’s as bad ass as it looks. And by that I mean BAD. So much for Pokemon. Japan has just come out with a totally deadly, ambidextrous, robot “crane”. Um, yeah, like we can’t see what the purpose of this baby really is. But, is this for Japan to attack us, or to protect all of us from something EVEN DEADLIER? What do those Tokyo scientists know that we don’t? And this thing can even be REMOTE CONTROLLED in times of extreme danger – is that for it to obliterate US, or is that for it to battle giant alien ‘bots?
Now, I like Pokemon just as much as the next geek – I mean hey it’s what got me into Magic the Gathering, and we all know how awesome that schizzle is. But if I had known back then that those cute little creatures were just a precursor to this ROLLING QUADRIPEDAL TENTACLED DEATH BUGGY, I probably would’ve stuck to G.I. Joe. At least he’s got a HEART.
Many thanks to Geekologie for bringing this nightmare to our attention.
While Leo and Sharkatron enjoy their middle America relaxation time on this Memorial Day, I am still hard at work in the east coast office scouring the nets to bring you the truth from across the globe.
This disturbing video comes to us from “across the pond” as they say- Scotland to be exact, where some dude named Jackie Gilles got this choice footage of a UFO interceptor trying to scare the eff out of a commercial airliner. (he also includes some strange tourist looking shots of the green countryside at the beginning of the video, um, thanks for that?)
The Edinburgh News has more on this scary observance.
My quick wits were a little slow on this highly disturbing video from last year, thanks to reader Dtruck for bringing it to our attention!
Apparently the Dutch have put C3PO to shame with this new development – a robot who actually walks with the GAIT of a real human! Apparently, human walking is “really very similar to falling forward in a controlled fashion,” researchers at TU Delft in The Netherlands explained. So they’ve brought that concept to little boy Flame. BUT we at TRED want to know, how soon until we’re ENGULFED in these little Flames?
More importantly, what is their directive? Good or Evil?
(Although I suppose they should make them with arms, if they really want to scare us.)
Don’t know much about this guy or where this was taken, but we spotted it over at Paranormal Activities and it’s pretty effing legit if you ask me.
Yeah they’re not quite babes or alien robots, but we might all still be staring at the sky through paper towel rolls if not for these little guys. They risked their lives if only because we kept them banana-full and they didn’t know how to hit the eject button. Many sacrificed themselves for the greater good, something you and I can only one day hope to achieve.
(ed. note: the photos with the CNN story are just sad- so we decided to give them a proper visual representation- chimps in space- yay!)
Space Chimps, we salute you.
Babes, Japanation, Robotics Gone Wild
I’m still not sure how I feel about this…torn I am…this could go either way really fast…
In just two short years, Leo Ponce de Leon Spitz has gone from unknown sixteen-year-old techie working out of his parents’ third bathroom off their kitchen in Lawrence, Kansas, to the savvy, international cybermedia mogul he is today.
