Sunday Things - biological edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday September 9 2012
This week, only one mention of a particular Martian robot! Instead, an attempt at a biological theme. I found lots of things in my bookmarks, but mostly vomit-inducing anatomy...




Bonus Inevitable Robots corner:
- Surgical robot plays 'Operation' - big giant robot versus a board game? Of course.
- Ask Curiosity - cheery advice column from an interplanetary robot destined to slowly freeze to death in a sand pit.
- Boston Dynamics dooms us all - now not even Usain Bolt can outrun the robots.
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1. Yay NZ!
Posted by Azurist at 1:48AM, Sunday September 9 2012
As someone living in NZ who has been to Waitomo about 4 or 5 times over the last 20 years, it's always a spectacular trip- it culminates with a boat ride through the caves lit by the glow worms overhead. You have to be deathly quiet as any loud noises cause the glow worms to stop emitting light, so the whole thing has a strangely sacred air to it. The glow worms are actually more common around the country than many people think- I used to live out on Great Barrier Island, near Auckland, and have fond childhood memories of our neighbours dragging us down to a pond on their property in the middle of the night to look at the glow worms nesting in the underhanging soil above the pond.