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Re: slightly OT, but what the hey
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Mon, 24 Jul 2000 06:23:20 GMT
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Harri 'Junkarn' Manni <junkarn@NOSPAMwombat.ludvika.se>
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Luis Villa wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/07/21/carnivorous.robot.reut/index.html
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> The link is an article about a meat-eating robot at USF. Feed it slabs of
> beef, and e-coli in the "stomach" convert the meat into electricity to
> power the robot. They talk about the potential for lawnmowers that eat the
> clippings. Sounds like I should just get a cow instead...
> Luis
One thing just hit me (I don't know if this is the right phrase to use in
sentence), when the cow eat there is some stuff that it can't process and
it comes out the "natural" way, I wonder if the robot really consumes
everything of that it eats...
//Harri Manni - 070-5850517
-"Do not take life too seriously.You will never get out alive."
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