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2009-06-09 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel developing battlefield robot snake

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-06-09 03:57|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 The Japanese have made some really amazing robot snakes. They work better on water than land. Seeing them swim is a bit strange...

Of course, there is not a whole lot of water in Gaza.

Posted by 3dc 2009-06-09 08:52|| 2009-06-09 08:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Now what they should do is develop a 30-foot-long, bulletproof anaconda that can slither at 20mph and crush a car in its coils.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-06-09 08:54|| 2009-06-09 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 A flaming robotic wild boar wouldn't be bad either.

Posted by Lumpy Angaith3743 2009-06-09 09:29|| 2009-06-09 09:29|| Front Page Top

#4 How about a sexy robot sheep that explodes when... um... penetrated?

Posted by DarthVader 2009-06-09 12:40|| 2009-06-09 12:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Uhhh....you mean like when they find out the sheep is not real????

Posted by Kelly 2009-06-09 12:58|| 2009-06-09 12:58|| Front Page Top

#6 There's a Video here

Posted by Willy 2009-06-09 13:09|| 2009-06-09 13:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Now if they can get it to spit acid and fly....

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-06-09 13:21|| 2009-06-09 13:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Damn good video, couldn't understand a word, and didn't need to.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-06-09 14:23|| 2009-06-09 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 No sense in limiting its usefulness, Darth. Make it administer a 10,000-volt charge, then move on. I'm sure that would really be upsetting to the population of Lebanon, Gaza, or the West Bank.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-06-09 16:11|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-06-09 16:11|| Front Page Top

#10 So as long as Hamas doesn't develop a robot Samuel L. Jackson, it'll be OK.

Posted by DMFD 2009-06-09 17:57|| 2009-06-09 17:57|| Front Page Top

#11 DMFD, I don't think that Hamas has ever developed anything useful. For that matter, I don't think that Muslims in general have developed anything useful in the last 600-700 years, despite what Bambi said.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2009-06-09 18:24|| 2009-06-09 18:24|| Front Page Top

#12 A couple of snakes:

youtube vid: japanese water snake robot

CMU swimming snake
(includes a snake to work inside your body in the OR room)

CMU's robot snake cross sections

A Scarab
lunar robot

Posted by 3dc 2009-06-09 19:05|| 2009-06-09 19:05|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't think that Hamas has ever developed anything useful

Oh yeah? What about "Sewage Tidal Wave Surfing"?

Posted by DMFD 2009-06-09 19:10|| 2009-06-09 19:10|| Front Page Top

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