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Comments on Hamster Controls iRobot Create Vehicle
This hamster knows where he's going; the next step is to soup up this iRobot hobby robot for some real speed. (Read
the complete story)
"It's from a Niven story (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handicapped). The protagonist's job is to create prosthetics for sentient creatures without physical manipulators (e.g. dolphins)."
( 3/6/2009 6:16:04 AM) |
"In the uplift universe, uplifted dolphins use things like this to walk and fight on land."
(Vince 3/7/2009 2:45:55 AM) |
"i can think of two easy ones; the blobby brain people from the Jimmy Neutron movie and H.G. Wells' Martians "
(wishnevsky 3/7/2009 5:26:02 AM) |
"It sounds like you are discribing a couple of aliens from Vernon Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep. Can't remember there names or name of species right now."
(Meditating Bear 3/9/2009 9:45:05 AM) |
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