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Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

we've made sentient popcorn shrimp?
What cruel gods we are indeed

Man now I want popcorn shrimp

Let's be real tho those little buggers or their descendents will be eating us before long, they will have their revenge

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skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

Nothing could posibly go wrong

Trainee PornStar
Jul 20, 2006

I'm just an inbetweener

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

we've made sentient popcorn shrimp?
What cruel gods we are indeed

Have we created popplers?

Log082
Nov 8, 2008


Barry Foster posted:

Man now I want popcorn shrimp

Let's be real tho those little buggers or their descendents will be eating us before long, they will have their revenge

Anything we enjoy eating will never be a threat to humanity, except possibly indirectly, like cow methane farts.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Trainee PornStar posted:

Have we created popplers?

oh poo poo

popplers
omicron

it's all converging

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

conjunct my saucer people

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

oh poo poo

popplers
omicron

it's all converging

Bronze Fonz
Feb 14, 2019




Delta-Wye posted:

i think about the quickening sometimes. when we had unrest and a pandemic and everything else was going nuts at the same time a couuple summers ago that phrase was top of mind

edit: its still top of mind, but it was then, too

Couple of summers ago was last year.

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TawL-kv2V0A

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Yesss, brilliant, thank you so much for this

I know what I'm listening to on my run tomorrow

dodecahardon
Oct 20, 2008

Rah! posted:

see, cool rear end vids. lil buttes spinning around and eating grains of sand lmao

those are cells, actually, which are being collected and built into new xenobots

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


Charles Mansion posted:

those are cells, actually, which are being collected and built into new xenobots


skewetoo posted:

Nothing could posibly go wrong

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


Rah! posted:

oh yeah those are some cool rear end vids :

https://i.imgur.com/EOQn2Hl.mp4

see, cool rear end vids. lil buttes spinning around and eating grains of sand lmao

gentlemen we have taken the first step towards creating the ideal pawg

Objurium
Aug 8, 2009

Rah! posted:

oh yeah those are some cool rear end vids :

https://i.imgur.com/EOQn2Hl.mp4

see, cool rear end vids. lil buttes spinning around and eating grains of sand lmao

At long last, we have created the Ecophagist from classic sci-fi novel 'Don't Create The Ecophagist'

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


Charles Mansion posted:

those are cells, actually, which are being collected and built into new xenobots

its the sand that crystals are made out of

think of how powerful the xenobots will become

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


Barry Foster posted:

Yesss, brilliant, thank you so much for this

I know what I'm listening to on my run tomorrow

:tipshat:

theres a lot of good poo poo on that channel

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


PokeJoe posted:

gentlemen we have taken the first step towards creating the ideal pawg

pawg planet

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


we have created PAWG

(a finger curls on the monkey paw)

P'nutty Assisted Weaponized Gooch

:tinylue:
:yosbutt:

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


Rah! posted:

we have created PAWG

(a finger curls on the monkey paw)

P'nutty Assisted Weaponized Gooch

:tinylue:
:yosbutt:

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Rah! posted:

oh yeah those are some cool rear end vids :

https://i.imgur.com/EOQn2Hl.mp4

see, cool rear end vids. lil buttes spinning around and eating grains of sand lmao

tbqh i hate this and it gives me huge anxiety

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?

Riot Bimbo posted:

tbqh i hate this and it gives me huge anxiety

I think thats why i like it

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

Riot Bimbo posted:

tbqh i hate this and it gives me huge anxiety

mmmm, just let the implications wash over you

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


it's really not scary

tiny little embryo dudes are no different from any other organism

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

eat some then

go on

have a bite

The Chad Jihad
Feb 24, 2007


It's pretty cool, but if it helps you feel better the copies they make need human help to be able to move and the whole thing craps out after a couple passes

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?

Jazerus posted:

it's really not scary

The scary part is how poorly written the CNN article is. I tried to find another source but they cite the CNN interview.

If I've properly deciphered, it says:
scientists had AI design a shape for frog stem cells to take; and that shape makes the stem cells reproduce by gathering other nearby stem-cells and shepherding them into the same shape
thereby creating a self-sustaining "robot" race in the sense that it is engineered by humans
nbd

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Pontificating rear end posted:

The scary part is how poorly written the CNN article is. I tried to find another source but they cite the CNN interview.

If I've properly deciphered, it says:
scientists had AI design a shape for frog stem cells to take; and that shape makes the stem cells reproduce by gathering other nearby stem-cells and shepherding them into the same shape
thereby creating a self-sustaining "robot" race in the sense that it is engineered by humans
nbd

here's an article from earlier this year providing a lot more background information on what the xenobots are

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-form-into-xenobots-on-their-own-20210331/

although it was written before they figured out how to reproduce by themselves. once they did start reproducing the scientists used an algorithm to determine what the best shape for them would be to facilitate that reproduction. ultimately the goal is to figure out how to program weird little dudes made out of human cells so that they can regenerate body parts within a human body and such

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Pfft that's fake life everyone knows real life only happens by accident once every trillion planets

E: OH SICK I FUCKEN GOT ONE THANK YOU WHOEVER IT WAS!!! This is the greatest forum thing to ever happen to me and I've had multiple insulting novelty AV's

Slavvy has issued a correction as of 00:39 on Dec 1, 2021

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


Slavvy posted:

Pfft that's fake life everyone knows real life only happens by accident once every trillion planets

*chuckles sensibly*
you’re p. nutty there, fella

Fly Ricky
May 7, 2009

The Wine Taster

The Saucer Hovers posted:

the chad astro vs the virgin aoimsg

This should be the headline of any article discussing the matter.

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

Fly Ricky posted:

This should be the headline of any article discussing the matter.

the fact that theyre doing the jurisdiction bureaucracy shuffle is interesting usually they just say "nah"or turn in a lemon reports after spending the money on beer and candy

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

Rah! posted:

oh yeah those are some cool rear end vids :

https://i.imgur.com/EOQn2Hl.mp4

see, cool rear end vids. lil buttes spinning around and eating grains of sand lmao

Pop a Buttebot in your mouth,
When you come to Fishy Rah's,
What they're made of is a mystery,
Where they come from, no one knaws.
You can pick 'em, you can lick 'em,
You can chew 'em, you can stick 'em,
And if you promise not to sue us,
You can shove one up your nose.

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

The Saucer Hovers posted:

the fact that theyre doing the jurisdiction bureaucracy shuffle is interesting usually they just say "nah"or turn in a lemon reports after spending the money on beer and candy

so jockeying for control over disclosure




or just jockeying for control over the op?? :tinfoil:

The Demilich
Apr 9, 2020

The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.



I grew up with this stuff and love it, enjoy the nostalgia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thdzV3VGzwo

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?

The Demilich posted:

I grew up with this stuff and love it, enjoy the nostalgia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thdzV3VGzwo

Barely remember watching this on TV, but the actual "alien interview" footage is badass. We ultimately accept it as theater, but there's apparent movements in the eyes and face; and when they shoot light directly at the eyes and mouth means if it was prosthetic then they were really confident none of the cracks would show.

Fly Ricky
May 7, 2009

The Wine Taster

Delta-Wye posted:

so jockeying for control over disclosure…or just jockeying for control over the op??

Well Rubio seems to have a sincere interest in holding the DoD accountable. For that matter the SA4810 amendment has plenty of bipartisan support.

But realistically spooks are gonna spook and the difference in what we get out of either office would be negligible.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Pontificating rear end posted:

Barely remember watching this on TV, but the actual "alien interview" footage is badass. We ultimately accept it as theater, but there's apparent movements in the eyes and face; and when they shoot light directly at the eyes and mouth means if it was prosthetic then they were really confident none of the cracks would show.

I think I read this same post on AboveTopSecret in like 2003 haha. the alien interview footage is really good and I'd love to know the origin. had young me convinced it was real and heck maybe it is?

Objurium
Aug 8, 2009

Was on the fence about Cryptonauts until they started speculating that the teens that valiantly fended off a stick-armed bugman robot were actually just stoned and throwing rocks at a back hoe lmao

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Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

The Demilich posted:

I grew up with this stuff and love it, enjoy the nostalgia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thdzV3VGzwo

this video is pretty cool, big proponent of the eastern mysticism angle.

aliens spilling the beans about reincarnation like some sort of galaxy-scale planet-to-planet proselytization effort. goddamn hippie aliens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thdzV3VGzwo&t=3678s

Delta-Wye has issued a correction as of 08:40 on Dec 1, 2021

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