We are obviously teaching out students the wrong things. Take this model, built by a student for his senior project:

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We stand on the brink of Robopocalypse.
The robots definitely stand ready. I’ve mentioned their initial tentative strikes against their human former masters more than once. And now, armed with weapons given them by our own military, killbots in Iraq immediately turned on their organic allies in a clear attempt to fire the first […]

I was talking to my boss the other day about blogging. He’s extremely tech-savvy, and the conversation really was related to work. I mentioned the kinds of things I tend to blog about, and he immediately said “You’ve seen Big Dog, right?”
I hadn’t, so he felt the need to enlighten me. And […]

It’s good that there are people like my friend Litch around, or I would miss news stories like this.
It looks like the book reviewers over at the New York Times are in league with the robots who will conquer us all. In an effort to hide the very real threat of mechanical annihilation, they […]

When author Adam P. Knave announced he was going to do a blog tour to promote his book of short stories, CRAZY LITTLE THINGS, I got excited.  I knew from reading his blog for some time that this was a man eminently qualified to speak to topics near and dear to my heart, namely Robopocalypse […]

A big thanks to justbeast for sending this argument my way:
Jay Garmon says giant humanoid robots are just plain stupid.  He makes some pretty convincing logical arguments there.
Jeremiah Tolbert, on the other hand, says they’d be totally awesome.  And his arguments are also convincing, though not from the standpoint of logic.
I think everyone should know […]

A big thanks to trav for warning me about this:
Here’s a great idea. We’ve got a huge space station flying around our planet at some ungodly speed. One of the features of any space station is that, left to its own devices that orbit will degrade over time. That’s just standard physics. […]

Despite being home with the flu (or perhaps because of it), Jessika is now taking advantage of my terror for her entertainment via Google Reader. She sent out via her shared story feed this little piece about proto-Daleks taking over the Miami-Dade police force.
These are the same potential hovering engines of humanity’s extinction the […]

One of the most likely visions of the future I have seen came from the Terminator movies. Tireless robotic death machines,walking, rolling on tank treads, even flying, patrolling the ruins of our civilization, hunting down the last survivors across fields of human skulls. If we keep going the way we are, that’s […]

In keeping with her efforts to keep me in a state of paranoid terror (she calls it “keeping me informed”), Jessika of Middle Raged Punk sent me another disturbing bit of progress toward Robopocalypse. Scientists at the Duke University Medical Center have apparently come up with a way to have a monkey’s brain control […]