The conspiracy theorist in me likes to imagine that the recent spate of ” oh shit, aliens are here” movies, like the forthcoming Battle: Los Angeles due out in March 2011, are part of a coordinated worldwide ramp-up to full-disclosure of the existence of extra-terrestrial or extra-dimensional (or perhaps, trans-dimensional) beings already known to select members of world governments. More likely however, its just that aliens blowing shit up is and humans battling them in vain with their terrestrial weaponry, only prevailing when they set aside their petty differences and unite as unified humankind, is a fail-safe way of making a decent action flick. Either way: I’ll watch it.
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Japanese people like their cute super-cute, and their creepy SUUUUUPER creepy. In regard to the latter, I present you with The Telenoid R1, aka Caspar the creepy talking ghost alien sperm robot. I made that last part up, but seriously, this thing is creepy. However, robot inventor Hiroshi Ishiguro (who himself looks a little creepy and alien-like) thinks his robot will change the world:
Ishiguro designed the Telenoid R1 to be a robot that could appear like many different ages and that is easily transportable.It is intended to be used as a communication device so that people can ‘chat’ from long distances: the robot is supposed to be able toe transmit the presence’ of a person from a distant place. To operate, the user must sit at a computer with a webcam that tracks the user’s movements and captures their voice. Actuators in the robot’s body help it to move in a realistic way.These movements are then mimicked by the Telenoid which is sitting with the message’s recipient.Ishiguro says: “The unique appearance may be eerie when we first see it. However, once we communicate with others by using the telenoid, we can adapt to it.”‘If a friend speaks from the telenoid, we can imagine the friend’s face on the telenoid’s face. “If we embrace it, we have the feeling, that we embrace the friend.”
Check out the video of the Telenoid R1 in action. The future is now. And it’s hella creepy.
You may have thought you knew about owls, but the Northern White-Faced Owl (hereby known forever more as Transformer Owl) found across Africa (and now the internet) is on the next level of owls. As you’ll see in the video, like many birds, Transformer Owl puffs up when confronted by a similarly sized foe in a futile attempt to seem bigger and more pissed off looking. However, it’s only when faced with a far larger enemy that Transformer Owl activates his secret superpower: the ability to turn into a nightmarish cat-like alien vampire demon owl. No wonder Japanese people love that shit!
NASA announced today the strongest scientific evidence to date for the existence of life outside of planet earth, but the Martians in question are anything but the little green men or cat-eyed big-headed spaceship pilots of science fictions lore. They’re actually pretty damn scummy:
A special mission to the Red Planet has revealed the likely presence of a form of pond scum – the building blocks of life as we know it. NASA unveiled the results of the recent Opportunity and Spirit probes sent millions of miles through the solar system to discover signs of extraterrestrial life.
The results are so promising boffins have already planned a host of other missions to discover whether there is extraterrestrial life in the universe.
The first question is, of course, what the hell is a boffin? (Apparently it’s British for “scientist”-Ed). The second question is, who’s gonna tell infamous British boffin Stephen Hawking, who made headlines last week for saying that we should be verrrrry verrrry afraid of making contact with aliens, that MARTIAN POND SCUM IS COMING and that he better run wheel for the hills? The third, and most important question however, is: what the fuck ever happened to the bigfoot on Mars? That dude was pimp!
