Nightmare fuel alert: Giving a snake a set of robot legs

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Blame Why Would You Do That GIF by Eric Jennifer

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Next up. Attaching Kiwis and other flightless birds to drones so they can fly.

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Is that not how lizards are made?

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Maker, dubious assertions buster, and snake hater…er…lover Allan Pan

That’s Allen

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I’m just assuming this was made in Australia.

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I have to admit, the snake in a tube just going for a ride was kind of adorable

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Chinese has a saying 畫蛇添足 (draw a snake, then add feet to it) Seems we’re going 3D!

(The saying is supposed to mean “doing things fine, then adding things that ruined it”)

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Crocubot, is that you?

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One might suppose that confusing snakes is not the best use of this fellow’s clear potential. (“Never going to become Doc Ock that-a-way”)

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I listened to a podcast last week about how we are terrible at imagining solutions which take away, subtract, to achieve improvements. This guy needs to listen to that.

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How did the film deal with the fish-out-of-water ‘breathing’ thing? Or was that simply a required ‘suspension of disbelief’ thing?

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To me, it seems like a serious reduction for prohibiting the flexibility the snake has.

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snl season 44 GIF by Saturday Night Live

Also, aren’t there already sneks with arms and legs that we call lizards? :thinking:

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His next move is to give spiders jet packs.

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