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Great Idea! (Score:0, Flamebait)
by BurKaZoiD (611246)
on Monday August 25, @11:07PM (#6790816)
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With cool stuff like this, it's no wonder MIT is number
one in engineering.
Number one compared to
what?
Maybe it's because they're in bed with
Microsoft that makes them so smart? |
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Re:Great Idea! (Score:2)
by
AntiOrganic
(650691) on Tuesday August 26, @12:46AM (#6791242)
(http://www.madtasty.com/)
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| Apparently you don't recall this
[mit.edu] MIT hack.
[mit.edu] |
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Censored photos of waterstrider sex?
(Score:4, Insightful)
by grinchmaster
(533271) on Monday August 25, @11:08PM (#6790817)
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| On the linked page
http://www-math.mit.edu/%7Edhu/Striderweb/striderw
eb.html Someone has blotted out the intimate details of the
waterstriders mating ritual. Is he seriously worried about
offending someone, or is he worried about hosting a porn site?
Who says political correctness has gone wrong... This is just
pathetic. |
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Re:Censored photos of waterstrider
sex? (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday August 25, @11:23PM (#6790904)
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Yeah it is pathetic. Having said that, does anyone have
the undoctored version, and if so could they email them to me
at insex@hotmail.com?
Please. |
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Re:Censored photos of waterstrider
sex? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on
Monday August 25, @11:33PM (#6790953)
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| Heh, I dunno why you got modded down dude, but I gotta
give you props for that one! |
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Re:Censored photos of waterstrider
sex? (Score:3, Informative)
by RebelWithoutAClue
(578771) <mailto:rwac@operamail%20.%20c%20om>
on Monday August 25, @11:53PM (#6791047)
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| This guy _might_ have been trying to make a point about
censorship in the world, or maybe just trying to crack a joke
? :) |
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Re:Censored photos of waterstrider
sex? (Score:1, Informative)
by Anonymous
Coward on Tuesday August 26, @12:23AM (#6791167)
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Note he also protected the anonymity of the insects by
blacking out their faces.
It's a joke!
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Re:Censored photos of waterstrider
sex? (Score:1)
by kanotspell (520779)
on Tuesday August 26, @11:37AM (#6794427)
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| loosen the tie buddy, it's a JOKE* *joke n. 1. Something
said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an
amusing story with a punch line. 2. A mischievous trick; a
prank. 3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation. 4.
Informal. 1. Something not to be taken seriously; a
triviality: The accident was no joke. 2. An object of
amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the
joke of the office. v. joked, joking, jokes v. intr. 1. To
tell or play jokes; jest. 2. To speak in fun; be facetious.
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Next (Score:-1, Flamebait)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @11:12PM
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They will figure out a way to put their penis into a
vagina. lol as if.
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Jesus Christ! (Score:0)
by
Brian Dennehy
(698379) on Monday August 25, @11:17PM (#6790870)
(http://www.mindspring.com/~billandsue/briandennehy.html)
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| Next thing you know, thousands will flock to get a glimpse
of the holy robot. |
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hahaha... (Score:2)
by smash (1351) <jrose.byrnecut@com@au>
on Monday August 25, @11:29PM (#6790935)
(http://www.byrnecut.com.au/~jrose
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Chan designed and built a mechanical water
strider. Robostrider is made out of a 7-Up can, stainless
steel wire legs and an elastic band coupled to a pulley to
power its middle legs. Light enough not to break through the
water surface, it travels half a body length per stroke.
Like its natural counterpart, Robostrider's principal means
of transferring momentum is in the form of vortices shed by
the rowing action. Can anyone say
"Macguyver?" :D
smash. |
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Re:hahaha... (Score:-1, Flamebait)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @11:42PM
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Can anyone say "Macguyver?"
Ok, I'll
try:
macgyu ...
macguv
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magc ... FAGGOT! |
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Creepy... (Score:5, Funny)
by MoeMoe
(659154) on Monday August 25, @11:39PM (#6790986)
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Robostrider is made out of a 7-Up can, stainless steel
wire legs and an elastic band coupled to a pulley to power its
middle legs.
I'm not sure what would bother me
more to see upclose in the pool, a Vietnamese Water Strider,
or a 7-Up can with legs... |
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Finally! (Score:3, Funny)
by billyradcliffe
(698854) on Monday August 25, @11:51PM (#6791037)
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| My theory that Jesus was really a robot sent from the
future finally has some evidence to back it up! |
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Re:Finally! (Score:0, Offtopic)
by hippiechimp
(701132) on Tuesday August 26, @01:06AM (#6791370)
(http://www.wackyfun.net/)
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| I respectfully disagree. I think Jesus had really small
feet. |
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Welcome! (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25, @11:53PM (#6791048)
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| I, for one, welcome our new water walking overlords!
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Only in Bree (Score:5, Funny)
by FreakerSFX (256894)
on Monday August 25, @11:55PM (#6791052)
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| Everywhere else it's known as RoboAragorn. |
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Re:Only in Bree (Score:1)
by tangent3
(449222) on Tuesday August 26, @04:18AM (#6791984)
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| Erm.. in Rivendell he would be known as RoboElessar |
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Did it walk across the Hudson?
(Score:1, Offtopic)
by heli0 (659560) on Monday
August 25, @11:59PM (#6791070)
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All you would need to do is teach it to hop from tire to
rat corpse.
Is there any reason for a NYC Triathlon
when the swim is cancelled
EVERY BLOODY YEAR [insidetri.com]? They haven't been able
to swim in the Hudson for three years, just MOVE THE BLOODY
RACE YOU WANKERS! |
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So does this anonymous reader work at
AOL? (Score:1)
by petabyte (238821) on
Tuesday August 26, @12:10AM (#6791110)
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"With cool stuff like this, it's no wonder MIT is number
one in engineering."
Am I the only one that got a major
AOL vibe there? Too many ... three letter
acronyms ... I can't do that Dave
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Re:So does this anonymous reader work at
AOL? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on
Tuesday August 26, @12:13AM (#6791119)
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Well apparently building robostriders is as Easy as Dell
but MIT forgot to mention that.
:)
Ah, I crack myself up
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Sorry, but I have to say it....
(Score:1)
by magores (208594) on
Tuesday August 26, @12:20AM (#6791152)
(http://magores.freezope.org/)
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Damn, I love topics like this!
Actual people giving
real comments on a geek topic. THIS is why I signed up here in
the first place.
SCO posts are okay during lunch and
from 2am-bedtime, but stuff like this is why I come here the
other 22 hours a day.
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Pete...re-peat (Score:1, Redundant)
by Teahouse
(267087) on Tuesday August 26, @12:20AM (#6791154)
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Didn't they post this story about 2 weeks
ago?
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Re:Pete...re-peat (Score:2)
by AntiOrganic
(650691) on Tuesday August 26, @12:54AM (#6791276)
(http://www.madtasty.com/)
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| Wait, so who was left? |
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In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
by nacturation
(646836) on Tuesday August 26, @12:20AM (#6791155)
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Researchers at MIT have solved the mystery of how teenage
boys satisfy themselves several times daily and in the process
have created a robot called Robostroker
[robostroker.com] that mimics the behavior.
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MIT #1 my ass (Score:2, Interesting)
by superpulpsicle
(533373) on Tuesday August 26, @12:22AM (#6791159)
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I can count more unemployed MIT grads in today's economy
than hair on my head. No, I am not bald.
It's articles
like this pointing MIT #1 that forces so many employers to
fear hiring these engineers nowadays. They are so smart that
if they innovate something... they are considered a
waste.
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obFuturama (Score:1)
by LittleBigLui
(304739) <wolfgang...grois
... enberg...ac...at> on Tuesday August 26, @01:02AM
(#6791335)
(http://www.littlelui.de/ |
Last Journal: http://slashdot.org/~LittleBigLui/journal/)
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[Cut to: Lodgatorium Comfort Dome Inn: Ballroom B. The
Jewbots dance around the bot-mitvah bot and Fry gets some food
from the buffet.]
Fry: So what's the deal? You guys
don't believe in Robot Jesus?
Robot #2: We believe he
was built and that he was a very well programmed robot but he
wasn't our Messiah. |
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What mystery? (Score:2)
by
gerardrj (207690)
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on Tuesday August 26, @01:21AM (#6791449)
(Last Journal: http://slashdot.org/~gerardrj/journal/)
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"Researchers at MIT have solved the mystery of how water
striders propel themselves across water
surfaces..."
Umm, I learned this in 6th grade. It's a
simple matter of surface tension and surface area. This was
the same day I learned about the meniscus formed when you fill
a glass to the brim with water.
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Re:What mystery? (Score:2)
by mizhi
(186984) on Tuesday August 26, @03:02AM (#6791776)
(http://binaryshift.dhs.org/)
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| No, the problem solved was not how water striders stay on
top of the water. It was how they make themselves go forward.
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MOD PARENT REDUNDANT (Score:1)
by Darth Fredd
(663620) on Tuesday August 26, @08:53PM (#6800738)
(Last Journal: http://slashdot.org/~Darth%20Fredd/journal/)
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There's 2 or 3 earlier comments saying "its so
simple"!
Remember, it's not the fact they can "float"
due to surface tension..
ITS HOW THEY FRICKEN
MOVE!!!
(oh, and I "learned this" in 3rd grade. So ha.)
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Hmm (Score:2)
by chrome (3506) <chrome.stupendous@net>
on Tuesday August 26, @01:43AM (#6791539)
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| I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords! |
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as usual... (Score:1)
by zr-rifle (677585)
<zedr.ngi@it> on
Tuesday August 26, @01:51AM (#6791571)
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.. free software's way ahead.
Richard Stallman did
that ages ago... |
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Well darn (Score:2)
by Our Man
In Redmond (63094) on Tuesday August 26, @02:13AM (#6791648)
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| I was going to post an entry about "Jesus feet," big
blocks of Styrofoam you can use to walk on water, but I can't
find them on the Web. All the references to "Jesus feet" on
Google seem to have some sort of religious slant to them.
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Re:Well darn (Score:0)
by
oojah (113006) on
Tuesday August 26, @08:45AM (#6792683)
(http://slashdot.org/)
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All the references to "Jesus feet" on Google seem to
have some sort of religious slant to them.
Funny
that... :)
Cheers,
Roger
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Sure it runs on water... (Score:0,
Offtopic)
by sryx (34524) on Tuesday
August 26, @02:56AM (#6791760)
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But will it run on Linux!?
-Jason |
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MIT Team (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by Lost Penguin
(636359) on Tuesday August 26, @03:00AM (#6791772)
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We can bet the team that can walk on water does NOT work
for SCO.
Does the robot run Linux.
SCO embrace, extend,
extort.
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Wading robot (Score:-1, Troll)
by Lost Penguin
(636359) on Tuesday August 26, @03:06AM (#6791790)
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| Can it wade through what comes out of D. McBrides mouth?
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Made In Taiwan (Score:1)
by
GomezAdams
(679726) on Tuesday August 26, @04:01AM (#6791940)
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| MIT still Rules. I'd like to have an SUV sized one please
to replace the aging swamp buggy here in the Everglades. Make
the walking pads gator proof and the cabin skeeter proof. I'd
like one in Rustoleum Primer and with a gun rack in the back
of the cabin, |
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Re:Made In Taiwan (Score:2)
by MImeKillEr (445828)
on Tuesday August 26, @07:13AM (#6792400)
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Journal: http://slashdot.org/~MImeKillEr/journal/)
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I'd like one too, but include some 33" Mickey Thompson
tires and a Gatlin gun from an A10 Tank Killer. That way I can
take it on the road as well and use the gun as an aid in lane
selection on my way to work.
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number one huh?... (Score:1)
by KiDas
(669016) on Tuesday August 26, @04:23AM (#6791992)
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"Chan designed and built a mechanical water strider.
Robostrider is made out of a 7-Up can, stainless steel wire
legs and an elastic band coupled to a pulley to power its
middle legs."
It's amazing the parts they get to work
with at these prestigous, expensive, high-tech
universities! ;) |
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Our stair-climbing water-crossing Dalek
masters (Score:0)
by Channard (693317) on
Tuesday August 26, @04:45AM (#6792062)
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| With this and the stair climbing robot mentioned on
Slashdot a while back there, if the Daleks get their hands on
the technology nowhere will be safe from them. Stairs,
islands, there will be no escape. We're well and truly up the
creek. |
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Dear MIT, please consider the following
projects (Score:4, Funny)
by mabu (178417) on Tuesday
August 26, @06:09AM (#6792264)
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* Playah Robot
This automaton goes out to the clubs
and picks up women and brings them back to your place. The
Playah Robot never complains about getting stuck with the fat
chick.
* Voicemail Robot
This robot will save
you from wasting time in voicemail hell with your local
utility company, diligently pressing 1 for English, 7 for
other, 3 for other, and 0 to speak to a human, and after an
hour and a half will notify you that a human has answered the
phone and is ready to speak to you.
* Alibi
Robot
This robot corroborates your story to your
girlfriend that you were busy studying last Saturday
night.
* Beer Run Robot
With alternate "Mountain
Dew" plugin available.
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number one in engineering (Score:-1)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @06:22AM
(#6792293)
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With cool stuff like this, it's no wonder MIT is number
one in engineering.
Oh yes, and with a sentence
like this it's no wonder the anonymous reader is at MIT
(unless he has an incredible sense of humour) |
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Re:number one in engineering (Score:0)
by BigBadBri (595126)
on Tuesday August 26, @09:21AM (#6792930)
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| Follow the link - it's officially No. 1 in America.
This is the country where they can't even engineer cars to
go round corners, so being number one isn't much of a
challenge ;-/.
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Where have I heard that before?
(Score:2)
by Spunk (83964) <ngxuraumb6o001@sneakemail.com>
on Tuesday August 26, @07:08AM (#6792390)
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With cool stuff like this, it's no wonder MIT is number
one in engineering.
Now that sounds awfully
familiar... So
Easy To Use, No Wonder It's Number One [aol.com] |
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Arise, ye sons of M. I. T....
(Score:-1, Offtopic)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday
August 26, @08:11AM (#6792570)
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...in loyal brotherhood;
The future beckons unto
thee
And life is full and good!
Arise, and raise your
steins on high
Tonight shall ever be
A mem'ry that shall
never die
Ye sons of M. I. T.!
One more, thy sons, O
M. I. T.
Return from far and wide
And gather here once
more to be
Renourished by thy side;
And as we raise our
steins on high
To pledge our loyalty,
We join thy sons
of days gone by
In praise of M. I. T.!
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This proves it. (Score:0)
by haa...jesus
christ (576980) on Tuesday August 26, @08:34AM (#6792629)
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Jesus was...
a ROBOT!
(and he built my
hotrod) |
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same guy who did robosnail (Score:1)
by Giant Killer
(33130) <drgandy@nOSPaM.mit.edu>
on Tuesday August 26, @09:31AM (#6793009)
(http://web.mit.edu/drgandy/www/)
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believe it or not, but robostrider was brian chan's
undergrad thesis. he is now working on robosnail, and was
recently featured on cnn. it now looks like they took the
article down, but his personal website with all that stuff is
here [mit.edu].his
personal research info, not linked off his main page, is here
[mit.edu].
oh yeah, he was my roommate when he was
working on the robostrider. brian is fascinated by insects and
such. we had a foot long 3/4" diameter millipede as a pet. one
day it got loose.
he also forges traditional
japanese swords [mit.edu]. one day he came back from doing
poorly on a test, and embedded it it 2 feet in the wall.
luckily, no one was on the other side at the time. |
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Re:same guy who did robosnail
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by fugu (99277) on Wednesday
August 27, @01:30AM (#6802324)
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| I thought he put the sword in the wall after he realized
he missed the date for the grad housing lottery?
;) |
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Ob. Simpsons quote (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @10:18AM
(#6793366)
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| I, for one, eagerly await our new robot deities. As long
as they don't short out. |
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Jesus! (Score:2)
by Pvt_Waldo (459439)
on Tuesday August 26, @10:34AM (#6793588)
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Mystery solved by MIT researchers?
(Score:1)
by rulethirty (673757)
<{rulethirty}
{at} {hotmail.com}> on Tuesday August 26, @11:29AM (#6794332)
(http://www.rulethirty.com/)
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| Researchers at MIT have solved the mystery of how water
striders propel themselves across water surfaces I have an
old Biology book (1994) that explains why water striders are
able to stay afloat on top of the water (due to the
interaction amoungst water molecules - van der Walls forces)
as well as how they can move along the surface. I think the
author should have been a little more careful in his wording
of this article. |
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Re:Mystery solved by MIT researchers?
(Score:1)
by Zeriel (670422) <sholes AT
athertonia DOT org> on Tuesday August 26, @12:08PM (#6794859)
(http://slashdot.org/~Zeriel
| Last Journal: http://slashdot.org/~Zeriel/journal/)
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| The earlier article made note that the MIT research
disproved the old theory, which was sketchy
anyway--apparently, under the old theory, there was no
explanation for how baby water striders could move as fast as
their parents. |
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Re:Mystery solved by MIT researchers?
(Score:1)
by rulethirty (673757)
<{rulethirty}
{at} {hotmail.com}> on Tuesday August 26, @12:23PM (#6795045)
(http://www.rulethirty.com/)
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| You're right, just discovered it's actually "subsurface
vortices" and not what was previously the school of
thought. :oP |
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Best in *USA* perhaps... (Score:1)
by avennis
(679387) on Tuesday August 26, @11:35AM (#6794400)
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A Canadian
ranking [uwaterloo.ca]. Are there any that pit the two
countries universities against each other?
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Re:Best in *USA* perhaps... (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @01:53PM
(#6796140)
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oh thats cute - look at the little americans trying to
showing off their college to the real americans - don't worry
little canada we know your there - we won't forget you, you
egg shaped head commedians.
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Did he really censor a pic of copulating
insects?! (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on
Tuesday August 26, @12:02PM (#6794786)
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...If that's the case and not meant as a joke, then this
PC business is getting out of hand!!
I'm referring
to:
http://www-math.mit.edu/%7Edhu/Striderweb/mating.j
pg ..on the page of water strider
pics...
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Problem with USN&WR's "diversity"
stats (Score:1)
by jeremycec (639648)
on Tuesday August 26, @02:06PM (#6796272)
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| According to Webster's: "minority:
...the smaller in number of two groups
constituting a whole."
Yet, the US News & World Report ranking
of colleges [usnews.com] shows statistics in which
"minorities" comprise more than 50% of the student
population.
It seems to me, a group is not a "minority" if it
constitutes 98-99% of the population at an institution
(especially in the case of the historically black
colleges).
I also enjoyed the page listing the schools with 100%
acceptance rates [usnews.com]. Woohoo! Just sign and
enter! |
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Re:Problem with USN&WR's "diversity"
stats (Score:1)
by flooey (695860) on
Tuesday August 26, @03:00PM (#6796979)
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According to Webster's: "minority:
...the smaller in number of two groups
constituting a whole."
Yet, the US News & World
Report ranking of colleges shows statistics in which
"minorities" comprise more than 50% of the student
population.
It seems to me, a group is not a "minority"
if it constitutes 98-99% of the population at an institution
(especially in the case of the historically black
colleges).
The minority being referred to in
those articles would be the portion of the US population as a
whole (which was 75.1% white in 2000 according to the US
Census Bureau [census.gov]). So an institution with 99%
minorities would mean 99% of the students belong to the "not
white" ethnic group, which is a country-wide
minority.
Of course, that link also shows the US as
50.9% female, leaving /. with, more than
likely, a heavily minority membership! |
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