Snake! Oh, It's a Snake!

March 15, 2006 11:15 PM

Robotic Sea Serpent.
posted by fandango_matt (18 comments total)

it's both creepy and awesome.

ROBOTAPEWORMS!~
posted by blacklite at 11:21 PM on March 15, 2006

Ewwwww.

The first little bit when it checks out the water reminds me of the inquisitive water snake from The Abyss.
posted by stray at 11:38 PM on March 15, 2006

"It can swim 30 minutes on a charge. So, the impending revolution will either be short lived or our destruction will be incredibly swift."

heh.
posted by Ironmouth at 11:39 PM on March 15, 2006

Woah, very creepy-cool. I wasn't really impressed until it got in the water and started moving around. Then it was awesome.
posted by kosher_jenny at 12:06 AM on March 16, 2006

Slithericious!
posted by brain_drain at 12:06 AM on March 16, 2006

Oh man, I'm not going to be able to sleep now. It's hunting. Hunting for my flesh. My delicious flesh.
posted by jimmythefish at 12:09 AM on March 16, 2006

There there! It did not knock down any buildings, fight with Mothra or eat Tokyo. Sleep peacefully.
posted by Cranberry at 12:13 AM on March 16, 2006

It did not knock down any buildings, fight with Mothra or eat Tokyo.

...yet.
posted by jimmythefish at 12:27 AM on March 16, 2006

Hilarious watching super-serious Engineer Guy being interviewed by what appeared to be giddy schoolgirls.
posted by dhartung at 1:12 AM on March 16, 2006

They need to slap some jaws and large, gnashing fangs on that thing.

The more natural-acting robots get, the more I feel like chopping them into little pieces.

(grabs his plasma cutter)
posted by roguescout at 1:20 AM on March 16, 2006

Hmm. I didn't watch the whole thing. Does it chase the schoolgirls? And do they have meat tied to their heads?
posted by zanni at 1:20 AM on March 16, 2006

It's be creepier if it was on a plane.
posted by sharpener at 1:24 AM on March 16, 2006

That's. Not. Nice. Mummy.
posted by NinjaPirate at 2:29 AM on March 16, 2006

And it was invented at Tokyo University. Why am I not the slightest bit surprised?
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:44 AM on March 16, 2006

When is the match-up against Gojira?

Will they be marketing smaller versions to children for bathtime? And on which night will these smaller replicants be mysteriously activated, when all are asleep, puposed to murder or inhabit us; sliding, serpentine, into our ears and noses; the fatalities discarded as the weaker chaff; survivors' lives directed by the "master's" commands; humanity set one against another across the divides of merchandising and child-rearing?

I only ask because I'm probably not going to be home that night, and could someone tape it? Ta.
posted by NinjaPirate at 5:15 AM on March 16, 2006

needs more plane.
posted by blue_beetle at 6:43 AM on March 16, 2006

Awesome link. If kids are building stuff like this, it makes you wonder what's going on at Area 51.
posted by cribcage at 8:09 AM on March 16, 2006

I, for one, welcome our.... oh, nm.
posted by rush at 12:55 PM on March 16, 2006