Kat_Roslyn

How about the walkoff from Rat Creek group, that is brutal. Huh slappy?

:cry: But how much can he bench?

thats funny. Yes, terribly clever. If you are a dumb cunt, that is. This is funny.

Looks cool. Thanks.

thats funny.

A second generation robot. My girl brain is too small to comprehend things like robots, machines and hunting. I am just a gatherer and think about flowers and making life. I found this last night. 04.02.2007 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Robots Modern robots can respond to emotion and the smell of fine wines. by Sean Markey, Corey S. Powell (All images courtesy of Gordon Bennett) 1 “Robot” comes from the Czech word robota, meaning “drudgery,” and first appeared in the 1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). The drama ends badly when the machines rise up and kill their creators, leaving a sole lonely survivor. 2 They say it was an accident. The first known case of robot homicide occurred in 1981, when a robotic arm crushed a Japanese Kawasaki factory worker. 3 More than a million industrial robots are now in use, nearly half of them in Japan. 4 Archytas of Tarentum, a pal of Plato’s, built a mechanical bird driven by a jet of steam or compressed air—arguably history’s first robot—in the fifth century B.C. 5 Leonardo da Vinci drew up plans for an armored humanoid machine in 1495. Engineer Mark Rosheim has created a functional miniature version for NASA to help colonize Mars. 6 Slow but steady: The real Mars robots, Spirit and Opportunity, have logged 10.5 miles trudging across the Red Planet for more than three years. The unstoppable droids were built to last 90 days. 7 The United States’ military corps of 4,000 robots includes reconnaissance Talon bots that scout for roadside bombs in Iraq and PackBots that poked around for Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Afghanistan. Apparently without much success. 8 PackBot’s manufacturer, iRobot, has also sold more than 2 million Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, with the same environment-sensing technology. 9 Low tech vs. high tech: Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have reportedly used ladders to flip over and disable the U.S. military robots sent to scout out their caves. 10 Elektro, the world’s first humanoid robot, debuted in 1939. Built by Westinghouse, the seven-foot-tall walking machine “spoke” more than 700 words stored on 78-rpm records to simulate conversation. 11 Life is tough in Tinseltown: Elektro later appeared in the 1960 B movie Sex Kittens Go to College. 12 R2-D2 is the only character that appears unchanged (by aging, say, or a funky black outfit) in all six Star Wars movies. 13 R2’s dark secret: It was played by actor Kenny Baker, who by the end was mostly given the boot and replaced by CGI. 14 Chris Melhuish of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory created robots that use bacteria-filled fuel cells to produce electricity from rotten apples and dead flies. The goal: robots that forage for their own food. 15 Mini Me: Australian researchers are trying to build a microrobot that would mimic the swim stroke used by E. coli bacteria. It would be injected into a patient so it could take a biopsy from the inside. 16 Cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick calls himself the world’s first cyborg, with computer chips implanted in his left arm. He can remotely operate doors, an artificial hand, and an electronic wheelchair. 17 Winebot, built by Japan’s NEC System Technologies and Mie University, can ID scads of different wines, cheeses, and hors d’oeuvres . . . up to a point. It recently mistook a reporter’s hand for prosciutto. 18 MIT’s Media Lab is trying to make robots personal, developing RoCo—a computer with a monitor for a head and neck—and Leonardo, a sort of super-Furby designed to respond to emotional cues. 19 No strings attached! Robotics expert Henrik Christensen predicts humans will be having sex with robots within four years. 20 Hans Moravec, founder of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, predicts that robots will emerge as their own species by 2040. “They could replace us in every essential task and, in principle, operate our society increasingly well without us,” he concludes, oddly cheery.

You could use the new tether technology they are implementing in space. The rope, a metal tether with some object either at the end or in the middle; each time it whips, the energy goes to the generator at the end to harness the energy. The energy being stored is used to propel whatever type of probe through space. The tethers they are started to use in space are made extremely strong now because of debris hitting the tether. I think there was an issue of a tether being broken and burned through because the energy being produced was a lot stronger than expected or something like that when some astronauts were testing. There are also tethers being used that gather electrons from the earth's atmoshpere, I haven't quite figured that out yet.

This is a Kevinosaurus eating Erik.

Done and DONE!

So at your old age yer tent won't pitch as high as it used to eh? I heard Spitz could pitch a tent pretty well though. Well, don't worry, it happens to the best of em. It's probably because you were pitching your tent so often in Aconcagua. You were probably so used to pitching you tent in dangerous foriegn lands, that the United States just doen't have anything extreme enough.

It's pretty much priceless, but I'll let it go for a gagillion dollars.

AHAHh hahahahaha Who can't set up a tent now! Man, I am gonna make fun of you for this forever!!! I wish I was there to see your face and you say "What the . . ". This is making me laugh so hard right now, I wish that I would've thought to play this joke on you!

This thread is making my psyche feel good right now, didn't walk for 4 1/2 months and styled jap gardens, godzilla and thin fingers last weekend, and also hiked to the top of the walls. Hows that for a cripple girl beyotches!!! I just like to call it trashin on the gnar gnar bro brah.

Mike, you are only 4 degrees from Kevin Bacon!!! YEAH!!!

Aaron, Hi this is Kat. I am so sorry to hear about your friend. I will try to attend. I recently had my pelvis and sacrum crushed, he probably had the same surgeon I did, Chip Route? I hope the best for him, hard times. -Kat

you should come over. You can show me moves from footloose. Jeez Louise get me off a my knees. Jack get back, come on before they pack. Everybody cut everybody cut DON NON.

When are you moving up here?

The Mike, I snapped this pic of you awhile ago. I thought it shows the sensitive side of you, it might look nice next to the one of The Jay.

I can't wait to see you naked.

Oh, this may be good for me, I think I'll try it. I has surgery yesterday on a big seroma I have on my thigh/hip. Anyway, this is what is written on Bastyrs site. Also key to craniosacral therapy is the connection between muscles and bones, a netting of connective tissue known as the fascia. Injury or trauma, or even the guarding that occurs when we experience pain, can cause the fascia to be constricted, twisted or tense. The imbalance can affect the whole system, similar to the effect of a snag in a delicate fabric. By restoring the balance of this system, one improves the functioning of the central nervous system and the overall physical and emotional well-being of the patient. According to Dr. Catherine Jones, a naturopathic physician, licensed acupuncturist and faculty member at Bastyr Center for Natural Health, a practitioner begins by making an assessment of the patient’s body by feeling the rhythms and noting temperature, pulse and blood flow changes, and where restrictions exist. “You might feel coldness or tension and the imbalance will be obvious to the trained practitioner,” says Dr. Jones. Then the practitioner will exert a very gentle pressure, so subtle it may be undetectable to an observer. A first-time patient may feel that very little is happening, although, Dr. Jones points out, there can be dramatic results after only one treatment. Through very slight movements, the practitioner is able to facilitate the release of restrictions and subtle misalignments, allowing the bones and joints to expand and contract properly. Often pain causes the body to assume a pattern that is difficult to correct – we tend to “guard” against the pain by protecting it with tensed muscles, causing misalignments, spasms, decrease in blood flow to the area and pain. Craniosacral therapy can break that pattern of pain.

Thanks guys, I was wondering if it has worked for anyone here though? And what do they do specifically? Like, acupuncturists stick needles in you, what do C-S people do, I got the impression they tap you.

Man, Olympic Physical Therapy has awesome PTs, you can look on the website and see specialties. They are great there, and everyone is super nice.

Jay, might you happen to have any pictures from this summer? By the way, I had a great time with you, that was really fun. I still haven't replaced the camera that the bear ate.

Man, I was all excited to throw a M-80 in that lake last winter, we got the camera ready, lit it, then poof! Nothing! Frikkin suckbm's friends were living with me and dropped it in a glass of beer! Looks like you guys had fun. -the kat