{"id":176,"date":"2005-12-22T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2005-12-22T04:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T04:13:00","slug":"176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/176\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just how could the body be improved, if we humans had actually been designed? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/backpage.ns?id=mg18825316.300\">New Scientist readers tell<\/a>. And YAY for a US judge, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/12\/21\/intelligent_design_dover_school_board\/\">kicking the latest ID twits<\/a> back to where they came from. Great discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/12\/20\/1656228&#038;tid=99&#038;tid=14\">here at Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and here&#8217;s a moment of weirdness. Back in 1997, I took a trip around the world for 7 months. In San Francisco, I stumbled across Robot Wars, then new and unknown. I didn&#8217;t have the entry fee, so I volunteered to help put together the arena in exchange for entry. Helped to paint the arena black, etc. Then I got to watch the whole thing from the rafters.<\/p>\n<p>There was a fantastic robot called Blendo which ripped the crap out of everything else. Instantly. It looked like an unturned wok with blades underneath, was started with an electric drill with a nut-head, and stayed upright with a built-in gyroscope. Genius. Also, too dangerous to compete. It sent flying metal across the arena to be caught by nets above the audience, and so was disqualified.<\/p>\n<p>Just read on <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/science\/05\/12\/21\/1435208.shtml?tid=129&#038;tid=14&#038;tid=11\">this  Mythbusters question-answering-session from Slashdot<\/a> that those guys made Blendo. That&#8217;s how they were found by the producer (from Beyond 2000!) who created the show. Freaky, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your Xmas and New Year, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how could the body be improved, if we humans had actually been designed? New Scientist readers tell. And YAY for a US judge, kicking the latest ID twits back to where they came from. Great discussion here at Slashdot. Oh, and here&#8217;s a moment of weirdness. Back in 1997, I took a trip around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/176\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}