Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/07/this-plant-drives-its-own-robo.html
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Needs some wheels on that skrode.
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So cyborg Triffids will be a thing then?
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Really, I was not expecting the apocalypse to be a cross between The Happening and The Matrix.
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The Wi-Fi tree only became popular when its roots grew to reach the network trunk.
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Huh. I didn’t even know Poison Ivy and Cyborg were dating.
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I think they are on the path to Audrey III
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Wait— Skynet started as a plant?
WTF?
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I look forward to the mobile gardens of the near future.
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Somebody tell Vernor Vinge!
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Even after the book and the movie, we haven’t learnt our lesson.
Triffids will win in the end.
Are you thinking maybe a bunch of plants driving their own space ship?
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Came for the Triffids reference. Was not disappointed.
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Surprisingly, let me be the first to say: I, for one, welcome our robotically enhanced plant overlords.
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I for one came here to make this joke (well, but using the word ‘phytorobotic’). Good on you!
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Oh, I think ‘phytorobotic’ wins.
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Shenanigans? I don’t imagine it stopping so cleanly under its own control.
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In Russia, robots drive their own plants.
(Well. That didn’t fucking work.)
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