On Saturday, November 24, 2001, at 01:52 AM, Ed Kummel wrote:
>
> I remember that Sean Luke was looking at some kind of
> Newton controled robot...what better robot than a
> newton controled dirigible! Send that sucker around
> the world and Jobs would have to take
> notice...expecially if some kind of telemetry can be
> developed and some kind of solar charging system
> created...
> Ha! Just a thought and a stretch to keep this on
> topic!
Dirigible heck, implement Rover*.
*For the culturally illiterate, Rover was the name of the freaky
white bouncy globe thingy in the BBC television show The Prisoner. It
was just a weather balloon**... but somehow they managed to make it
really menacing.
**Actually, they used several *thousand* weather balloons during
the filming of the 17 episodes.
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