GIANT SPIDER
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- SkyPoo0
I'm with Set on this one.
Aye, Mon then ya wee gadgies.
- calculator0
could that thing move any SLOWER?
- calculator0
pretty sure a real spider doesn't take 9 people to make it walk
- 5timuli0
If it stops at the lights will it have it's wheels stolen?
- mistermik0
I would like to see more links of this.
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On a side note at least scouser john can scrap the metal at a later date.
- calculator0
I would like to see it catch a fly
- SkyPoo0
I would like to see it manage a small flight of steps, or even keep up with an arthritic old aged pensioner out for a walk.
That for me is the big problem with this. They've picked a creature that is fast, articulated and dynamic, the very epitome of all terrain transport, and they've utilised the mechanical technology of a modest 80's fairground ride. They have failed to emulate the spirit of the creature in any way.
Like watching a really disappointing Hollywood blockbuster that has been hyped out of all proportion.
- bergdorf0
i would be impressed if it actually walked on its own...
- "There's a robot after us!"
"It's alright, it's still about 2 miles away - I can hear it"calculator
- "There's a robot after us!"
- SkyPoo0
^ For the money it cost it should have been this good at perambulation I reckon. Obviously not semi-autonomous and self-correcting like this, but still, better would have been better.
- CALLES0
- I'm not sure if everyone saw this, post in more threads!
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- SkyPoo0
Hang on a minute. Re Sammy2001 photo... I was at least a little bit impressed that after seeing the film footage of it it did appear to be standing on its own legs, but am I right in thinking that its attached to, and being supported by, and pushed along by a bloody tractor?
If so then this really is a totally shit waste of money. Fucking hell.
- sammy20010
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20409833@N00/2833869956/" title="La machine13 Liverpool 2008 by mannion_steven, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2833869956_c8c6ffffb0.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="La machine13 Liverpool 2008" /></a>
- SkyPoo0
Sammy2001, you were obviously there... was it good entertainment or a bit poo?
- chossy0
groovy. love this kind of thing, I saw a muckle spider run across my floor last night so I grabbed my cat and told her to go kill it she obliged :D looks like you can add apiders to her list of edibles.
1. cat food
2. humans foods
3. fly's
4. mice
5. spiders
6. plastic bags
7. anything you put close to her mouth.a full and righ and varied diet if you ask me :E
- Ah hahaha I always get Bingo to eat the spiders too. Makes me feel less bad if the cat murders them.SkyPoo
- Kidswift0
Not sure if this guy has been posted before but really wicked kinetic walking sculptures by Theo Jansen
kind of along the same lines as this
- SkyPoo0
Look at this one...
And some chheky varmint charged a bloody fortune for a load of hydraulic arms covered in fibreglass shapes that had to be pushed along by a forklift truck.
- chossy0
are these not made out of paper or something groovy spooky?.... either way it is hard rock hard rock thunder cool :D.
- sammy20010
I enjoyed it.
It was quite badly planned and a bit dangerous (lots of pushing, which wasn't good for us with the 2 prams) - but that made it even better. When it started walking - they decided to take it down a busy street. So thousands of people were pushed back, so the spider and it's orchestra (harps etc.) could fit down.
I think everyone wanted it to be quicker (like Cloverfield, or will smiths "wild wild west" :) but who cares? - it's not like we're going to see a giant mechanical spider again.- Fair doo. I guess its easy for me to scoff from a distance like this so its good to know it was exciting in the flesh.SkyPoo
- SkyPoo0
Yeah I think cardboard and bamboo and bits of plastic bottles and stuff. Dunno... but they make my heart pound, as though there is a ghost in the machine, a soul... they seem so lifelike and that's what impresses me as well as their mechanical excellence. The Liverpool Spider is not mechanically impressive and there is no ghost in the machine.