# crazy contraption **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2002, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989 "2002-08-02T07:45:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/1 "2002-08-02T07:45:23Z")
[Slashdot](http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/01/2242245&mode=thread&tid=159) posted a [link](http://www.plustech.fi/Walking1.html) to a six legged logging machine. Check out the videos, maybe its just me but these things creep me out. ---
**Author:** ![EggNogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@EggNogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EggNogg)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/2 "2002-08-02T11:46:57Z")
I’m scared, someone hold me [egg](http://www.thebrotherhoodofnogg.cjb.net) ---
**Author:** ![Beerman63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c2a13f/32.png) [@Beerman63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beerman63)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/3 "2002-08-03T01:47:04Z")
You are absolutely right that is creepy,machines should have wheels not legs. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/4 "2002-08-03T01:54:22Z")
You know what that looks like? Remember in Beauty and the Beast, where the beast sends Belle’s father home? He throws him in this scary looking carriage with legs that runs of its own accord. Random, but that’s what that reminded me of. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/5 "2002-08-03T05:53:10Z")
Reminds me of some versions of Peter Parker’s old foe, the [Spider Slayer](http://www.megspace.com/entertainment/spider78/spiderslayers.html) (see versions III/IV and VII). ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/6 "2002-08-03T14:48:20Z")
Why are people so creeped out by this? It’s fantastic! It’s about time they came out with a practical vehicle/machine with legs. It’s been used in sci fi a lot, most notably Star Wars. And one of my favorite anime series, _Patlabor_, which is based on the idea that 4- and 2-legged machines become common in industrial use (construction, freight handling, etc.) and the police department decides they need some as well. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/7 "2002-08-03T16:00:59Z")
I don’t think the fact that it walks creeps me out. Its the uncanny resemblance to a grasshopper. Imagine a swarm of these things tearing through a forest like locust. ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/8 "2002-08-03T16:24:25Z")
My techno-dweeb juices are pulsing with joy and delight over this one!! I’ll take mine in red once they get down the size of a Jeep. Now all we have to do is improve the speed a little… You’ve alos got the advantage with this machine of not tearing up the ground as much like dozers, skidders and other wheeled and tracked forest harvesting machinery. This thing is just plain wicked cool!! ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/9 "2002-08-03T16:25:43Z")
now I’m going to put my good typing fingers on… _alos_??? hoo boy… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/10 "2002-08-03T18:30:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scr4 \* > Why are people so creeped out by this? … It’s been used in sci fi a lot… Yeah, like in _Terminator_. ---
**Author:** ![loupdebois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e495f1/32.png) [@loupdebois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loupdebois)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/11 "2002-08-04T02:14:30Z")
I’m with Knead. Very, very glad I don’t go in for the chaining-myself-to-trees thing with that beast around… very glad I don’t live NEAR trees, really… ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-contraption/121989/12 "2002-08-04T04:03:53Z")
Hmmm…they need to make the legs longer. Otherwise, how are the Ewoks going to trip them?