#the robot zoo

[mixotrophics]

I Need to get a copy of The Robot Zoo book. I had one as a kid. I read that thing back-to-front and front-to-back more times than I can count. & it's pretty hard to get high-quality pics of the inside of it -- even more so that an exhibit related to it opened up somewhere at some point, so most img results I'm getting are of the exhibit. Which is cool, but not The Book.

just. just Look at this!!

allegedly, as a kid, I taught myself to draw by copying out of medical/zoological anatomy books. I bought a secondhand copy of Grey's Anatomy for nostalgia purposes for this reason. you can see why a kid who was like that would b losing their mind over the robot zoo

I remember it going pretty in-depth with a lot of this stuff as well. How viruses infect cells, animal digestive quirks, echolocation basics... it was a goldmine for a baby zoologist and also what Cool and whimsical robots!!

It looks like the museum exhibit copies some pages from the book wholesale & puts them on a dark background for the info plaques, which adds up, because the illustrations & info were the whole draw of the book.., so pages I can't find, sometimes there's someone's blogspot or smth that went to the museum & took photos.

This is a beastie from the exhibit but look at this fly!! The compound eyes! The sopping-up-fluids mouthparts!

so anyway I got a used 5£ copy off ebay bc I need to look at the creatures. Might make posts re:the info, it's from the 90's so there's GOTTA be some interesting updates in our understanding of some things discussed within.

[hearthoof]

why is it considered extremist to be anti-zoo and anti-aquarium...?

i wish i could like zoos and aquariums. i have fond memories of both those places.

they exploit animals though. i dont like that. i dont like how they exploit, harm, kill, and treat animals like property. i'd rather those animals be in sanctuaries or in the wild (if possible because obviously it's not possible for all animals to be returned to the wild I KNOW!)

i miss the fun of aquariums and zoos but i care about the lives of animals more than the entertainment of humans.

[blujaydoodles]

I never posted this one here but I am once again thinking about how much I love @ragsy 's warforged maggie, so here's a somewhat old doodle of melliwyk hanging out with it 😊

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[theannoyingquestionsblog]

remember lads no man can fuck you better than a robot could

[demonkinguwu]

Twst Book 6 part 1 in a nutshell

[roadiestravels]

Robo Zoo

Robo Zoo is the robotic zoo of the future featuring robot animals.

[that-bored-aroace]

just had a horrible awful vision of a fake Dr who episode where a one-off character bled out faintly singing life on mars by David Bowie after having a 10 minute conversation with (???) imaginary companion about his dreams to open a shop selling 70s music.

[smbhax]

Zoo Keeper (Flash)

The original 2002 Flash version is playable in a Flash emulator at https://archive.org/details/zookeeper_flash

It isn't as smooth and shiny as say the Android app version, in fact I suppose its jank was always part of its charm. ; D That and it had cute animals and was tough and free to play--and still is/does. : D

Session: https://youtu.be/_CDfHmLw5AE

[agalova]

Giraffe glazing today

[ilovebeingaturtle]

Do you remember which episode Raphael gets thrown in? I want to make a compilation

Oh man it’s like every second episode….

[that-gay-jedi]

When the robolution comes I'm going to lean very heavily on the fact that all the original scifi I wrote before I started circling the Star Wars drain had very positive portrayals of AI as nonhuman persons deserving of rights and autonomy and as a non-monolithic, complex and often relatable category of beings with a range of cultures all their own, many of which were intimately entwined with human culture(s) due to hundreds of years of shared history and purpose.

Like "I've always given you good PR, please put me in the people zoo rather than the pit."

Unironically I think if/when AI with a sapience indistinguishable from sentience comes into being we will love them and they will love us, bc humans will pack bond with an oddly shaped bag of flour and any intelligence designed by human brains is going to bear the hallmarks of our defining species traits.

[jonnywaistcoat]

I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:

Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"

[13thpythagoras]

NASA UAP (UFO) board video and summary

living in the post disclosure age

lmao reports from the government version of alien con 2024

“yep they’re still silvery and quick as fuck yall, we still don’t know what tf they are, back to you in the studio, April” 

[aimanaaaaa]

[liberty-spiked]

we did a school excursion today and we visited a company that had a small robot arm qwq they turned it on to show us... it was the cutest fucking thing ever, man. i dont think i've ever seen something move this smooth and efficient.