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Comments: 147 +- Science: Endeavour Crew to Assemble Giant Robot, in Space on Monday March 10 2008, @03:43PM
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Frizzled writes "Part of the space shuttle crew's scheduled mission for this week is to assemble a massive robot which will 'rise like Frankenstein' from the shuttle's cargo bay. The robot, named Dextre, has 11-foot arms, a shoulder span of nearly 8 feet, a height of 12 feet, and was built by the Canadian Space Agency. 'Dextre can pivot at the waist, and has seven joints per arm. Its hands, or grippers, have built-in socket wrenches, cameras and lights. Only one arm is designed to move at a time to keep the robot stable and avoid a two-arm collision. The robot has no face or legs, and with its long arms certainly doesn't look human.'"
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Go Canada (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Go Canada (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Go Canada (Score:5, Funny)
Typing.
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Robotic overlords (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but, does it have... (Score:3, Funny)
Voltron! (Score:2)
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NASA: Lets just make a bunch of giant robots with giant wrench arms and a giant Canadian phallus and put them in space. What could possibly go wrong?
I also like that Japan's donation to the space station is a closet.
torch (Score:2)
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Excellent (Score:2)
Oblig 50's quote slighytly edited. (Score:5, Funny)
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"Dude! You totally melted that guy's tank!"
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DO NOT WANT!
The good news is... (Score:2)
Certainly won't be any fire brandishing townsfolk come after it and make it go beserk, because you know...fire bad!
Meh (Score:2)
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"long arms" (Score:5, Funny)
Oh I don't know. It reminds me a bit of Ron Jeremy.
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The article said nothing about it being apishly hairy.
Human Error (Score:2)
Just one word comes to mind... (Score:5, Funny)
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Dextre or Dexter? (Score:2)
If so, then NASA TV may soon have a new show called CSI: ISS!
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In season 3 he starts disposing of the bodies by burning them in atmospheric reentry.
Cue dramatic music (Score:2)
duh,
duh,
DUH DUH
(duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh)
Not Frankenstein (Score:4, Insightful)
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The article was right: "almost like it's Frankenstein's monster coming alive."
Dextre? (Score:2)
It's no GUNDAM (Score:2, Funny)
Canadians and arms (Score:2)
In related news (Score:2, Funny)
New Futurama Movie Idea (Score:2)
So Burning Man... (Score:2)
", in Space" (WTF?) (Score:2)
Never been photographed on Earth (Score:3, Interesting)
SpaceBall One (Score:3, Funny)
Dextre? (Score:2)
Gigantor, anyone?
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"blast off in the wee hours" (Score:3, Funny)
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