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#3256653 5-Jul-2024 14:41

Received an email from Flybuys (Which is ending shortly) asking me to partake in a Kamar Survey to "maximise my Flybuys"!!!

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#3257147 7-Jul-2024 18:41

AARRRGH

Watching the Supercars all afternoon for Sky to lose the feed on the last lap.

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#3257295 8-Jul-2024 11:36

Chinese robot with human brain cells.

BBC: Step aside Futurama, scientist build robot that's controlled by a brain in a jar

There have been plenty of bizarre robots designed in the past, but this could well take the top spot. In a world first, this robot is more human than ever, kitted out with and controlled by a real-life brain.

Research teams from Tianjin University and Southern University of Science and Technology have controlled the tracking, grasping and obstacle avoidance of a robot via what is known as a ‘mini-brain’.

This, of course, isn’t a real brain pulled from a human body. Cultured in vitro, these brains are created for the purpose of research – and, apparently, for integration into robots.
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#3257303 8-Jul-2024 11:57

kingdragonfly: Chinese robot with human brain cells.

BBC: Step aside Futurama, scientist build robot that's controlled by a brain in a jar

There have been plenty of bizarre robots designed in the past, but this could well take the top spot. In a world first, this robot is more human than ever, kitted out with and controlled by a real-life brain.

Research teams from Tianjin University and Southern University of Science and Technology have controlled the tracking, grasping and obstacle avoidance of a robot via what is known as a ‘mini-brain’.

This, of course, isn’t a real brain pulled from a human body. Cultured in vitro, these brains are created for the purpose of research – and, apparently, for integration into robots.
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I can't figure out how to respond to this. Horror and fascination I guess. Years ago the Dutch made a film about a killer lift controlled by organic brain cells. Who would have thought?

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#3257368 8-Jul-2024 12:54

Is it time to rewatch all the Terminator movies to brush up on soon to be needed survival skills?

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#3257372 8-Jul-2024 13:12

kiwifidget:

Is it time to rewatch all the Terminator movies to brush up on soon to be needed survival skills?

Don't be named Sarah or John Connor, or be near anyone with those names. Should be sweet.

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#3257447 8-Jul-2024 14:44

geoffwnz:

kiwifidget:

Is it time to rewatch all the Terminator movies to brush up on soon to be needed survival skills?

Don't be named Sarah or John Connor, or be near anyone with those names. Should be sweet.

Nope. If you have a motorcycle you might get caught up in the storm too.

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#3257451 8-Jul-2024 15:01

This is the power pole removed near here today. (I told them 2 years ago that it was not good, and was told "The lines will hold it up!")

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#3257458 8-Jul-2024 15:40

Typical NZ cheaping it out. The UK still has 130-year-old poles in use today, the oldest known one being in Scotland on the Penpont to Sanquhar Road dated 1893 (source: Telegraph Pole Appreciation for Beginners, p.109). 100+ year old poles aren't that uncommon.

The rot would have started to set in once we stopped making our poles from kauri, and Hector's dolphins, and yellow-eyed penguins.

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#3257483 8-Jul-2024 16:20

neb:

Typical NZ cheaping it out. The UK still has 130-year-old poles in use today, the oldest known one being in Scotland on the Penpont to Sanquhar Road dated 1893 (source: Telegraph Pole Appreciation for Beginners, p.109). 100+ year old poles aren't that uncommon.

The rot would have started to set in once we stopped making our poles from kauri, and Hector's dolphins, and yellow-eyed penguins.

Back then they probably protected it with something that causes cancer. I remember something to do with old poles and railway wood that meant it was not able to be used for anything once removed.

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#3257550 8-Jul-2024 17:16

richms:

neb:

Typical NZ cheaping it out. The UK still has 130-year-old poles in use today, the oldest known one being in Scotland on the Penpont to Sanquhar Road dated 1893 (source: Telegraph Pole Appreciation for Beginners, p.109). 100+ year old poles aren't that uncommon.

The rot would have started to set in once we stopped making our poles from kauri, and Hector's dolphins, and yellow-eyed penguins.

Back then they probably protected it with something that causes cancer. I remember something to do with old poles and railway wood that meant it was not able to be used for anything once removed.

Arsenic I think it was

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#3257551 8-Jul-2024 17:16

kiwifidget:

Is it time to rewatch all the Terminator movies to brush up on soon to be needed survival skills?

That. Or:

They Live, Elysium, and Snowpiercer.

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#3257557 8-Jul-2024 17:43

richms:

hey probably protected it with something that causes cancer. I remember something to do with old poles and railway wood that meant it was not able to be used for anything once removed.

creosote.

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#3257573 8-Jul-2024 19:00

richms: Back then they probably protected it with something that causes cancer.

Creosote, according to the book.

Ever since they switched to organic wholemeal water (warning, possible carcinogen in the state of California) as a preservative things went to the dogs.

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