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Never expected to see? I'm surprised that it took this long for them to come to light.
Sorry, but that comment brings to mind three instances in my youth. The first was when I purchased my father an actual automatic washing machine, as opposed to the wringer model he was using up till that point. The second was when I brought home an Atari game console, and the last was when our first microwave oven appeared in the kitchen.
In each case, my father was vehemently opposed to these new "fads" and strongly resisted using them. In each case, he eventually relented; in the case of the washer, he actually (grudgingly) admitted that I was right and he had been wrong. And, unfailingly, in each case he observed the capabilities of the new tech, muttered an astonished "Sonomabitch!" and made it clear that the item in question represented the pinnacle of scientific wizardry and would never be topped; apparently, humanity had gotten as smart as it was possible to be, and we would all just get dumber from then on.
Although the machines keep getting smarter...I think he was right about that final comment.
Hello; To be a bit more clear. I did not expect to see such agility in my lifetime and based on the last robots I have seen. Such likely means I have not been keeping up which is very true. In one video in the last day or so a robot did a successful back flip.Never expected to see? I'm surprised that it took this long for them to come to light.
Sorry, but that comment brings to mind three instances in my youth. The first was when I purchased my father an actual automatic washing machine, as opposed to the wringer model he was using up till that point. The second was when I brought home an Atari game console, and the last was when our first microwave oven appeared in the kitchen.
In each case, my father was vehemently opposed to these new "fads" and strongly resisted using them. In each case, he eventually relented; in the case of the washer, he actually (grudgingly) admitted that I was right and he had been wrong. And, unfailingly, in each case he observed the capabilities of the new tech, muttered an astonished "Sonomabitch!" and made it clear that the item in question represented the pinnacle of scientific wizardry and would never be topped; apparently, humanity had gotten as smart as it was possible to be, and we would all just get dumber from then on.
Although the machines keep getting smarter...I think he was right about that final comment.
My favored method of checking out of this world is to be outside doing something distasteful. A passenger jet is flying overhead. Somehow about 30 pounds of waste gets released and freezes as it falls. I am solidly struck and am gone quickly. My body is not found until after the mess thaws.
If i have to live on and on I hope to become a cyborg with my nervous system transferred into a capsule which can be plugged into various bodies. A vehicle. an articulated scorpion like body with attachable tools in place of claws. A boat. A helicopter. A tank and so on.
