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Sybarite

2011-12-01 10:09:18 AM

We're getting there.

www.technovelgy.com

dletter

2011-12-01 10:13:45 AM

Well, and you should, because robots eat old peoples medicine for fuel!

www.eggshell-robotics.com

real_headhoncho

2011-12-01 10:15:04 AM

Got there already.
scifimafia.com

fluffybunny

2011-12-01 11:04:38 AM

Bukharin

2011-12-01 11:53:42 AM

lewismarktwo

2011-12-01 12:13:59 PM

Haha small-heads, everyone knows it's the tiny robots that will get ya. They won't even let you fight back!

InOmnibusCaritas

2011-12-01 12:14:18 PM

Bukharin: [fc08.deviantart.net image 640x512]

Came for this, leaving satisfied

Grapple

2011-12-01 12:14:41 PM

Just stay away from the stairs

the_sidewinder

2011-12-01 12:16:26 PM

jmadisonbiii

2011-12-01 12:16:44 PM

TheLopper

2011-12-01 12:16:56 PM

Link (new window)

Rufus Lee King

2011-12-01 12:17:48 PM

tricycleracer

2011-12-01 12:18:21 PM

The 1930s hysteria about machines taking jobs and killing people.

Then we wised up and realized it was blacks, Chinamen, and Mezzicans who are the real threat.

Shazam999

2011-12-01 12:18:53 PM

In the 2030s, everyone will be worried about giant robots killing everyone

the_sidewinder

2011-12-01 12:18:55 PM

Rufus Lee King: [www.misterkitty.org image 549x558]

[www.misterkitty.org image 599x207]

Why is the acid disintegrating?

slarti0001

2011-12-01 12:20:05 PM

And we're somehow not worried about this same automated menace today compared to way back then?

Very popular movies on this theme:

The Terminator movies
The Matrix movies
I, Robot
etc.

SweetSilverBlues

2011-12-01 12:21:42 PM

Then they realized that the robot was really okay and full of love.

Then they blew it up.

Sooopermaaan...

inelegy

2011-12-01 12:22:19 PM

Silly 20th century people! Now we're evolved enough to recognize that the real threat is zombies.

gunrunner

2011-12-01 12:22:30 PM

fear breeds odd ideas

Rufus Lee King

2011-12-01 12:22:39 PM

the_sidewinder: Why is the acid disintegrating?

Can't say. The rest of it makes sense, though.

Gunny Walker

2011-12-01 12:26:28 PM

suburbanguy

2011-12-01 12:26:43 PM

Came for Old Glory Insurance.

Leaving before the robots get me.

Bukharin

2011-12-01 12:29:00 PM

suburbanguy: Leaving before the robots get me.

billwardwriter.com

MasterSFV

2011-12-01 12:34:47 PM

Looks like a job for Magnu - Robot Fighter!!!

d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net

mongbiohazard

2011-12-01 12:35:19 PM

Subby, now we just know those robots who kill us all will be much, much smaller.

joshua4

2011-12-01 12:35:55 PM

In the 21st century people are worried about a socialist takeover of government.

Same idiots, different century.

MisterRonbo

2011-12-01 12:37:07 PM

Resistance is futile.

/best Trek villain ever
// till they were ruined in the movie

mongbiohazard

2011-12-01 12:37:43 PM

Gunny Walker: [i43.photobucket.com image 325x348]

I only found out a few months ago that he finally finished that series. I thought it was a good end too.

groppet

2011-12-01 12:39:42 PM

tricycleracer: The 1930s hysteria about machines taking jobs and killing people.

Then we wised up and realized it was blacks, Chinamen, and Mezzicans who are the real threat.

You left out commies and nazis

abfalter

2011-12-01 12:39:50 PM

Huck And Molly Ziegler

2011-12-01 12:45:32 PM

But they CAN be our friends. One kept Will Robinson out of danger. Because he'd say "Danger, Will Robinson!"

Arklop

2011-12-01 12:46:01 PM

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind"

KellyKellyKelly

2011-12-01 12:53:37 PM

Surely you have heard of our great victory over the devil's robot?

paygun

2011-12-01 12:55:01 PM

What a bunch of rubes. Now excuse me, my WiFi allergy is really bad today so I have to get going.

bighairyguy

2011-12-01 01:09:44 PM

Those robots really weren't all that giant.

sniderman

2011-12-01 01:15:26 PM

Chicks dig giant robots.

Drain

2011-12-01 01:17:53 PM

It will scream like a TIE Fighter when it walks.

jest788

2011-12-01 01:22:25 PM

Exterminate!

upload.wikimedia.org

BuckTurgidson

2011-12-01 01:24:12 PM

mbillips

2011-12-01 01:25:26 PM

Silly 1930s people. That could never happen!

www.historycommons.org

stuffy

2011-12-01 01:27:20 PM

Can't have killer robot thread without them.

LMark

2011-12-01 01:37:19 PM

Don't worry, we have Yoshimi to protect us.

fark'emfeed'emfish

2011-12-01 01:40:11 PM

God bless those patriots! where would our country be today if giant robots had actually been able to follow through with their devious plans in the 1930s.

CrazyCurt

2011-12-01 01:58:31 PM

http://i.haymarket.net.au/News/MechWarrior%20Online%20Jenner%20Concept .jpg

... or these

/ mechwarrior online, got yer force right here bub

CrazyCurt

2011-12-01 02:00:02 PM

Fark, my bad, apologies -- but mechs are coming. Can't wait.

/ still have my old Battletech tabletop junk

Vash's Apprentice

2011-12-01 02:39:34 PM

Here to save the day.

dbrunker

2011-12-01 02:52:52 PM

I'm not exaggerating when I say that this was called a robot back in the 1930s (and yes they DID exist back then).
farm3.staticflickr.com

Bag of Hammers

2011-12-01 03:09:59 PM

Arklop: [www.duneinfo.com image 600x450]

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind"

Agrees

images.wikia.com

animal900

2011-12-01 03:14:08 PM

dbrunker: I'm not exaggerating when I say that this was called a robot back in the 1930s (and yes they DID exist back then).
[farm3.staticflickr.com image 500x375]

We have backup tape changers in the server room and the little mechanical arm inside that moves the tapes around is referred to as the robot.

way south

2011-12-01 03:34:14 PM

So, nothings changed then?

/2011: everyone is disappointed that giant robots aren't already killing them.
/people ask "where is my giant robotic killing machine?".
/Congress votes for more funding to the design of giant robots.
/maybe by 2030, if we're lucky...

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