Giant Robot Snake Fights Climate Change

[Loop Stricken]

That's pretty cool, and thank MechaChrist it's nowhere near as creepy as BigDog.
It's probably the comical face that fixes it.

 

[cthulhumythos]

I don't get it.

They're using a mechanical recreation of a snake driven extinct by a natural climate change(most likely downwards no less, given the animal is cold blooded) of 6-8 degrees about 58 to 60 million years ago to convince people that a climate change of 1 degree in the past 100 years is immediately life threatening and artificial.

Maybe I just don't get it, but this sounds like they just scammed some rich eco-nutjob into funding their making a giant robot snake just for the hell of it.

they convince people that a climate change of 1 degree in the past 100 years is immediately life threatening and artificial by making a gigantic life-threatening artificial snake. duh.

but i have to agree, it is totally awesome, but what does it do about climate change.

 

[Garchomp445]

I don't get it.

They're using a mechanical recreation of a snake driven extinct by a natural climate change(most likely downwards no less, given the animal is cold blooded) of 6-8 degrees about 58 to 60 million years ago to convince people that a climate change of 1 degree in the past 100 years is immediately life threatening and artificial.

Maybe I just don't get it, but this sounds like they just scammed some rich eco-nutjob into funding their making a giant robot snake just for the hell of it.

they convince people that a climate change of 1 degree in the past 100 years is immediately life threatening and artificial by making a gigantic life-threatening artificial snake. duh.

but i have to agree, it is totally awesome, but what does it do about climate change.

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This is going to take a while...

Lets's see where to start:
What they might be trying to say is that, say, our current society is the 50-foot, extinct snake, and America's dependacy on oil is the temperature. If America wasn't recieving fuel constantly, or if the snake didn't constantly have the correct outside temperature, America would grind to a halt pretty quickly. Now, in this metaphor, the other countries would be different species capable of surviving in the new temperatures, right? Wrong! They are the other snakes. Let's say America accounts for about half the snake population, and the snake population stands for the world economy. A drastic climate change in one part of the metaphorical world wipes out the America snake population, but will the other snakes be affected? Of course, because speaking for both metaphorical worlds, America is in a cushioned zone of the oil economy/temperature, meaning that it has enough money/is in the right place that the temperature changes will affect it last. So, what I'm saying that they are saying, is that we need to use less oil, or a severe outage will wipe us all out.

Please respond, I think I might've missed something...

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

The fact it is programed to save the climate at all costs and is filled with very adaptive viruses is nothing to worry about!

 

[Thaluikhain]

Thank the Goddess that thing is extinct...*shudders*

In Australia, they used to have snakes that grew up to the smaller, but still "Jay-zus WTF" size of 7 metres long, until about 50,000 years ago.

Not coincidently, the first Australians arrived in Australia about 50,000 years ago.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Thank the Goddess that thing is extinct...*shudders*

In Australia, they used to have snakes that grew up to the smaller, but still "Jay-zus WTF" size of 7 metres long, until about 50,000 years ago.

Not coincidently, the first Australians arrived in Australia about 50,000 years ago.

Those were some very smart people. I applaud their actions.

 

[Sonicron]

Well, I know what I want for Christmas.

(Which is a new armchair. ... What, you actually think having that monstrosity around the house is a good idea??)

 

[OniaPL]

This really reminds me of the Giant Serapedes in GoW3.

 

[])rStrangelove]

Actually i find that walking spider with the pilot inside a lot more mindblowing.

 

[The Last Nomad]

At first I thought, that thing ain't so big. Then I noticed the little man in the spiderbot. this can only end badly for humanity. Skynet will use these machines to fuck our shit up.

 

[Your Fearless Captain]

What was that thing in the background walking around?

 

[Trippy Turtle]

At first I thought it was decent but I was amazed when I saw it next to the person.

 

[Hamish Durie]

called it ^.^(adding this so I don't get a warning)

 

[Dastardly]

"The complex control needed to properly move hundreds of individual parts will necessitate a skilled operator who has taken time to become at one with the serpent."

The entendres! They're doubling faster than I can keep up!

 

[Macgyvercas]

God damnit scientists, are you TRYING to usher in the robot apocolypse?!

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

This snake deserves a kick ass song to go with him! You're welcome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-0hL1vhTzU

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you ninja bastard.

let us rock out together

with giant metal snakes

I'm so fucking happy to be alive

 

[CrazyGirl17]

...Wow. Now I kinda want one, especially if it had weaponry. (Why am I suddenly thinking of Zoids?)

 

[Rect Pola]

"I shall build gigantic robot creatures that shall strike terror into people's hearts... for good causes."
I only want to see this so a little blue robot will come kill it.

 

[Robert Ewing]

That is so freaking cool...

I remember seeing ocean robotic snakes, that harvest the kinetic energy of the ocean waves to convert into electricity. And I remember them being a success in testing.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Do I have to plug into the Matrix to "become at one with the serpent" or do I just need to take a lot of acid?