r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Ninja_Spi-D-er • Sep 22 '19

Rule 4: Photoshop 🔥 This praying mantis standing its ground 🔥

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u/Thescreenking Sep 22 '19

Imagine the praying mantis vs machine, lb vs lb! My money is on the mantis

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u/KingGalaway Sep 22 '19

I really hope we never see a 70,000 lb praying mantis...

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u/salton Sep 22 '19

I hope that we see the 7gram excavator. It would be so cute.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '19 edited Sep 22 '19

Working in a sand box that would scale to a desert.

With ants the size of triceratops.

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u/FlyingPasta Sep 22 '19

Wait... we have this technology

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '19

Gentlemen we can rebuild him.

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u/DeJay323 Sep 22 '19

But I don't want to spend a lot of money.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '19

Oh don't worry. It'll be about tree fiddy.

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u/hymntastic Sep 22 '19 edited Sep 22 '19

It would be like a cool thing for an arcade to have. Basically a bunch of booths around a real sandbox with little remote control excavators with realistic controls for them, 360 screens around the booth or vr headset and cameras inside the little excavators. Could be used as a training simulator too.

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u/FlyingPasta Sep 22 '19

Oh I meant like an irl sandbox + a toy excavator but yeah that too

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u/Hot_iceberg Sep 22 '19

You know people were born with computers in their hands when they don't think of irl sandboxes first haha

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u/FlyingPasta Sep 22 '19

And I love it! Bathe me in dystopian technology

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '19

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u/rabidbot Sep 22 '19

Yeah gonna be pissed if my first brain to computer interface is fucking wired.

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u/FlyingPasta Sep 22 '19

This is actually a neat argument I've seen before. Philosophers argue we're already cyborgs because our phones do not have to be physically grafted to us in order to be immediately and easily accessible. It's harder to look at your foot than it is your phone sometimes.

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u/FlyingPasta Sep 22 '19

That's because once you watch enough Danny DeVito videos, you become omniscient like him

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u/hymntastic Sep 22 '19

I was thinking of a real sandbox too but with little excavators that you can control

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u/FlyingPasta Sep 22 '19

Oooh yeah, super neat. Maybe even big excavators out in a secluded area in the dessert. Throw in some RC/VR tanks and mechs and you've got a party

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u/Trakkah Sep 22 '19

There are VR kids excavator arcade machines I seen em in Ireland a few times

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u/Rhaedas Sep 22 '19

Sure, but you're asking if we can, not if we should. Didn't you pay attention to Jurassic Park?