Velociraptor Bad At Disemboweling 298
illtron writes "British scientists at the University of Manchester were apparently bored and decided to find out, once and for all, if the Velociraptor was as mean as Jurassic Park would like everyone to think. They created a robotic Velociraptor leg to simulate the effect that leg would have on pig and crocodile skin. It turns out that disemboweling a dino probably would have been out of the question, since the best that big claw could do was usually just to leave a deep puncture." From the article: "I realized that the sick-claw was not a knife, but was rather more like the claw of a cat. Cats use their claws to pierce and hold prey, not to disembowel. Whereas my work was mostly theoretical, Phil took one step farther as he was given the opportunity to mechanically test the disemboweling hypothesis. His work is very important,"
Unconvincing (Score:3, Insightful)
Who care about TFA (Score:5, Insightful)
Fsck! I need a job like that!
Geek Fight (Score:2, Insightful)
Evil Disemboweling Kitty Cats (Score:2, Insightful)
I remember watching Jurassic Park (Score:4, Insightful)
That's why I really liked Pitch Black. Instead of pitting blood hungry monsters against helpless little kids, they threw in a bad ass human to take em on and, unlike the useless soldiers in Aliens, he actually put up a fight!
Re:A Prayer to My God (Score:4, Insightful)
It's about repeatability (Score:3, Insightful)
But more generally, I'm not sure exactly why it is useful to build a robot arm to do their demonstration.
Robotics means you get consistent force from trial to trial.
Re:A Prayer to My God (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I remember watching Jurassic Park (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I remember watching Jurassic Park (Score:2, Insightful)
And it goes without saying that a raised-in-captivity bengal tiger, kodiac bear, or nile crocodile can have the shit totally kicked out of it by a geek who gets nose-bleeds after sliding a 19" monitor three whole inches. Because being raised in captivity and never having hunted means it'll just sit there and take the abuse, just like true domestic animals such as Rottweillers and Spanish fighting bulls do.
So anybody who is planning on visiting a safari park should take a geek with them. Then, if you break down or get a puncture in the lion enclosure, you can get out and fix it in the sure knowledge that your geek can just pick up one of those pesky cats by the tail and use it to club any others into mewling submission, assuming of course that they were all raised in captivity and never had to hunt.