# Time to buy that Old Glory policy...Idiot Science Featuring Meat Eating Robots!

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 30, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-that-old-glory-policy-idiot-science-featuring-meat-eating-robots/483753 "2009-01-30T18:53:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-that-old-glory-policy-idiot-science-featuring-meat-eating-robots/483753/41 "2009-02-01T19:26:33Z")

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> [@Terrifel](#):
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> “They” are the same guys, at the University of West England. [Here’s the page](http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/Robots/slugbot.htm) on their site where they brag about inventing a robot that kills slugs.

They’re making little robotic Renfields.

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-that-old-glory-policy-idiot-science-featuring-meat-eating-robots/483753/42 "2009-02-01T19:34:17Z")

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This “self-replicating” thing. You mean, like, assembling a bunch of spare parts, yes? Otherwise, we’re headed into some really creepy territory here…

“Cf33310! Check out the gymbals on this coldie! 0011100101, but I’d love to plug and play with those USB ports!..”

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**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-that-old-glory-policy-idiot-science-featuring-meat-eating-robots/483753/43 "2009-02-01T19:55:56Z")

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> [@Stoid](#):
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> Take their ScienceBoy credentials away, lock them up, and make them watch _Westworld_, All three Terminators, all three Matrix films (all three Matrices?), _I, Robot_ and _Blade Runner_ on a continuous loop for a month. Strapped down, with their eyes propped open, a la _Clockwork Orange._

It’s a shame that the plane carrying the Wachowski Brothers went down in bad weather – along with the scripts, drafts, and legal documents about the rights to the film – shortly before the third Matrix movie could ever be made. I’ll always wonder whether it could have lived up to the promises made by the second film.

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> Then they have to express it in C++, Fortran, COBOL and a minimum of 2 other programming languages

…for a grand total of three programming languages. 😃 Seriously, though: meat-eating robots? Revoke their creative license _stat_.

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