# THIS is why mankind shouldn't build robots **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407 "2011-06-30T17:59:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/1 "2011-06-30T17:59:28Z")
I used to have faith in technology, but more and more I’m becoming a Luddite. Here we see a perfect example of why building robots is a **very bad** idea. Indian scientist builds robot (robot happens to look like its creator - damn hubris!) [Hijinks ensue](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yBnl_krN_U). (youtube) I fear for the world that my children will have to inhabit. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/2 "2011-06-30T18:41:14Z")
I think he’d make an excellent governor of California. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/3 "2011-06-30T18:46:59Z")
Wow, I watched that whole thing. I like when the “Snake” eats the car! Definitely a sign of things to come if we continue to make more robots… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/4 "2011-06-30T19:11:14Z")
That was approximately 47.829 kinds of awesome. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/5 "2011-06-30T19:33:46Z")
I tried to see this in the theater, but the jackass promoter decided to charge $18 for tickets. So it played to a completely empty house. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/6 "2011-06-30T19:41:27Z")
Robots on Roller Skates. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/7 "2011-06-30T19:47:55Z")
Excellent! ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/8 "2011-06-30T19:49:23Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > Wow, I watched that whole thing. I didn’t. Was there a musical number in there somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/9 "2011-06-30T20:16:05Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > I think he’d make an excellent governor of California. Might be difficult, given that Elvis obviously isn’t ready to reveal his ageless visage to all of his fans in the States yet. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/10 "2011-06-30T21:20:24Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I tried to see this in the theater, but the jackass promoter decided to charge $18 for tickets. So it played to a completely empty house. Was it an IMAX theater? Or one of those newfangled luxury movie theaters? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/11 "2011-06-30T21:21:25Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > I didn’t. Was there a musical number in there somewhere? The youtube clips are only part of the movie. I would hope that if you watch the whole thing you get to see a few musical numbers. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/12 "2011-06-30T21:23:35Z")
Kinda anticlimactic. I’d see it though. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/13 "2011-06-30T21:31:29Z")
Given what the solo robot can do, flinging pairs of trucks around and so forth, it seems like they’re limiting themselves when they join up to make the giant critters. They could wreak more havoc with all the dozens of them running around independently tearing shit up. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/14 "2011-06-30T21:47:52Z")
6:17 is very meta. Oh and Rajinikanth is a pimp. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/15 "2011-06-30T21:50:42Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > Was it an IMAX theater? Or one of those newfangled luxury movie theaters? Nope, this was at the bog standard Cinemark Palace on the Plaza in Kansas City. All the other movies were $8, this one was $18. Breathtakingly stupid idea. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/16 "2011-06-30T22:08:44Z")
But isn’t [building robots](http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/28/robot-armpit.html) a noble enterprise pursued only by right thinking scientists? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/17 "2011-06-30T22:10:09Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Nope, this was at the bog standard Cinemark Palace on the Plaza in Kansas City. All the other movies were $8, this one was $18. Breathtakingly stupid idea. We have a similar situation in Rochester. There’s a movie theatre that normally has two dollar tickets. But once in a while, it’ll have an Indian movie playing - and when it does it raises the ticket price for that movie to something like fifteen dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/18 "2011-07-01T00:21:30Z")
More [problems](http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/terminator-restitution/) with robots. ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/19 "2011-07-01T03:35:02Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > But isn’t [building robots](http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/28/robot-armpit.html) a noble enterprise pursued only by right thinking scientists? [Yes.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci9CCvTHvpM) – I liked it. Though the lady in the car sounded like she was being massaged, not terrified. Not that I’m complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407/20 "2011-07-01T05:38:27Z")
Fantasy [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yBnl_krN_U) Reality [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PMw023nS48) Also those Indian robots look vaguely like the oompa loompahs from the willy wonka remake. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-mankind-shouldnt-build-robots/587407.md?page=2)