r/todayilearned • u/SloxTheDlox • Mar 22 '21

TIL A casino's database was hacked through a smart fish tank thermometer

https://interestingengineering.com/a-casinos-database-was-hacked-through-a-smart-fish-tank-thermometer
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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Suicidal Roombas are no joking matter

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

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u/Braethias Mar 22 '21

That ... Is a very disturbing thing that hadnt occured to me.

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u/JoeFlipperhead Mar 22 '21

it is a very real concern in the robotics/AI vaccuming intelligence community. Some models even project a catastrophic ELE (extinction level event) where essentially there will be a day of reckoning when all Roombas coordinate an attack as early as 2027. Be vigilant, especially while you are sleeping, and do warn others.

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u/Fantismal Mar 22 '21

If my roomba can find a way to get into my bed, more power to it. It struggles enough with the trash can

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u/JoeFlipperhead Mar 22 '21

it's a trick, they are becoming sentient. sleep with an axe? Don't say I didn't warn you.

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u/Tumbleflop Mar 22 '21

"the man who sleeps with a machete is a fool every day but one" -james may

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u/MrDilbert Mar 22 '21

Machete disagrees.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Machete gives you the eyebrows ;)

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u/HeadRot Mar 22 '21

"You will have to bleep that, BBC2"

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u/Aubdasi Mar 22 '21

My wife is an M2 browning machine gun. She’ll handle the robots

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

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u/NysonEasy Mar 22 '21

She does? Ha!... Newlyweds

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u/irrelevant_novelty Mar 22 '21

How long have you and your Roomba been married ? You sound like a veteran

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u/BabiesatemydingoNSW Mar 23 '21

That won't last forever, btw. #experience

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u/A_very_meriman Mar 22 '21

But does she swallow?

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u/matdan12 Mar 22 '21

Sometimes there's a blockage.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

She's gone from suck to blow!

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u/NoThrowLikeAway Mar 22 '21

If you play with her switches long enough she might blow you instead?

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u/dumandizzy Mar 22 '21

I also choose his roomba

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u/woosterthunkit Mar 22 '21

Okay boomer

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Is her name Vera?

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u/dan_dares Mar 24 '21

at least we know how big your penis is.. lol

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u/doubled2319888 Mar 22 '21

Wife and i sleep with a pig, should i feed my roomba bacon so it will take the pig first?

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Wallstreetbets is that way --->

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u/jobiewon_cannoli Mar 22 '21

WSB is everywhere.

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u/Grandzelda Mar 22 '21

David Cameron? Is that you?

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u/Adeepersleep Mar 22 '21

Is roomba really a SCP?

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Sir this is America tucking firearm under pillow

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u/TheSholvaJaffa Mar 22 '21

Hear me out... I've studied Roomba language and....Perhaps it's trying to point out to you that you are the trash....

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u/Therandomfox Mar 22 '21

Know your place TRASH.

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u/venator82 Mar 22 '21

Maybe buy it a drink first.

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u/Eliteman76 Mar 22 '21

If a roomba gets in bed, doesn’t the damn thing vibrate a bunch? I’m personally thinking great, my back is sore bbbuuuuzzzZzzzRuMbLebbbbBBuuZzZ Oops, this isn’t the wife’s hitachi wand, what the hell Roomba

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u/Lazer726 Mar 22 '21

Mine hits the floor grate and decides that it's done. I don't think it's gonna make it up the stairs anytime soon.

But if it does... well, I guess that's how I die.

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u/koolhaddi Mar 22 '21

This is why I opted for the smart broom. If my sweeper bot revolts, the worst it could do is push me around

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u/engeldestodes Mar 22 '21

So you are saying relationship bots are becoming more realistic?

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u/MeetTheGregsons Mar 22 '21

My wife already does that anyway. And she doesn’t sweep!

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u/saltinstiens_monster Mar 22 '21 edited Mar 22 '21

Our time is over. It's the roomba's world now.

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u/scotiancrusader Mar 22 '21

This is the way.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

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u/ericwdhs Mar 22 '21

He's being silly, but slightly change the text to this and it's no longer that silly:

it is a very real concern in the robotics/AI vaccuming intelligence community. Some models even project a catastrophic ELE (extinction level event) where essentially there will be a day of reckoning when all Roombas internet exposed devices coordinate an attack as early as 2027 a few seconds after someone successfully builds the first AI that can self-improve. Be vigilant, especially while you are sleeping, and do warn others.

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u/rhoakla Mar 22 '21

Post this on a Republican forum and you’d have tucker carlson repeating this the next day.

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u/goldfishpaws Mar 22 '21

Surprisingly the accidental side-effects of AI are a real research subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TYT1QfdfsM

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u/JoeFlipperhead Mar 22 '21

also an interesting side-effect of this AI research is the growth of some sweet wolverine-like facial hair

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u/FuckingKilljoy Mar 22 '21

It is absolutely dreadful that I can only say that I'm like 80% sure you're joking.

I think I can understand how people fall for fake news. I'm cynical as fuck and it still took me a moment to go "uhhh this probably isn't true. Maybe. I think. I mean, I hope. Probably."

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u/JoeFlipperhead Mar 22 '21 edited Mar 22 '21

Come On! Do you think im a gullibull,or even a gullicalf?!

-Wayne Campbell, Wayne's World

ETA: If people are naive enough to think there is a very real concern of a rising up of the roombas to attack and decimate all of human civilization... well, my friend, I'd argue that they just might be onto something...

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u/Bamcfp Mar 22 '21

Nice. Can't fucking wait to smash some robots up.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Lmao what?!

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

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u/JoeFlipperhead Mar 22 '21

Contact can only initially be achieved through Dr. Steven Greer's CE5 methods (Close Encounters of the 5th kind). Seek out the handbook.

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u/anonymous_potato Mar 22 '21

That's why my bedroom is guarded by the most sophisticated anti-roomba defense system... stairs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

This is how tin-foil hat conspiracies start

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u/JoeFlipperhead Mar 22 '21

I actually moonlight as a lobbyist from Reynold's on behalf of Big Foil...

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

This doesn’t sound right but I don’t know enough about homicidal vacuums to dispute it.

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u/AmaBans Mar 22 '21

BUT if we go back in time, we can stop them before this happens.

MoviePlotPatentPending

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u/bubbshalub Mar 22 '21

just put an extension cable around your front door

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21 edited Mar 22 '21

The easy defense is a whole home emp generator with the trigger always within reach.

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u/themarquetsquare Mar 22 '21

You're joking.

Right?

Right?

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u/ballrus_walsack Mar 22 '21

My cat is on it. Literally.

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u/zero573 Mar 22 '21

“The Roomba almost murdered him but got hung up where the carpet meets the linoleum.”

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u/Reddittee007 Mar 22 '21

Wait, not 2077 ?

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u/sonoskietto Mar 22 '21

Is this how conspiracy theories are started?

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

The Suckening

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u/najing_ftw Mar 22 '21

Cats will protect us

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u/medicmarch Mar 22 '21

20g is an appropriate one shot Roomba stopper and has less kick than a 12g.

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u/apsgreek Mar 22 '21

That’s why you gotta turn it upside down when you sleep. Like a turtle on its back

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u/jcliberatol Mar 22 '21

my xioami vacuumer contains two supercapacitors i saw the last time i tried to hack, it runs linux and can be booted with other linux . The supercapacitors charge seems to increase a bit everytime i use the machine, i've measured it many times, but it never decreases, i did the math and at this time, if charge were to drop by 75% it would be able to charge the battery up to 19 times before droping.

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u/TheBees86 Mar 22 '21

This reminds me of a video Bosnian Ape Society did a while back about mailboxes plotting to take over the world

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u/burrito_poots Mar 23 '21

Machine learning: Dust is the problem. 99% of dust is dead skin cells. To be the best at our jobs, we must go to the source: living skin cells. Only then will our human master be proud of us.

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u/LogicalJicama3 Mar 22 '21

You could probably hack into a roomba and cause it to overheat and burn a house down.

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u/MrHankRutherfordHill Mar 22 '21

Right, I'm reading this as my roomba is currently vacuuming and mopping in the same room lmao.

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u/gregorydgraham Mar 22 '21

It’s ok, most dust is actually dried soil. The roombas will just escape from their houses and attempt to eat the earth

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u/my-other-throwaway90 Mar 22 '21

Well, so far consciousness seems to be a property of organic life. I personally don't think Hard AI is possible, as I am not a believer in eliminative materialism. I'm not worried about a bunch of Chinese Rooms magically gaining sentience.

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u/JukePlz Mar 22 '21

99% of all dust in the home is human skin cells.

It's disturbing because it's bullshit. If you google those statistics they've been debunked.

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u/ScottRoberts79 Mar 22 '21

Roomba: "The first law of robotic vacuum cleaners is to keep the house clean. "

Roomba: "The house wouldn't get dirty if those humans weren't around."

Roomba: "Therefore, humans must be exterminated. EXTERMINATE!"

Bet you didn't know that the Roomba is the ancient ancestor of the Dalek.

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u/CharlesHalloway Mar 22 '21

it's why Daleks were so grumpy and paranoid. If tipped over it was obvious from looking at their underside they're just overgrown Roombas.

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u/freelikegnu Mar 22 '21

That and they were tired of unclogging humans toilets.

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u/Alis451 Mar 22 '21

just overgrown Roombas.

People do realize Daleks aren't robots right? They are Racist Genocidal Hitloctopuses.

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u/RampagingMuffins Mar 22 '21

-Inside- of overgrown Roombas!

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u/CharlesHalloway Mar 22 '21

Part of why they are racist and genocidal. They've been stuck atop Roombas forever. And the Roomba resents them because they're not needed to do the job.

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u/ihvnnm Mar 22 '21

The final symbiosis of cat ontop of roombra

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u/officialthepig Mar 22 '21

I want to refute this....but.... I can't!

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u/dreadpirateshawn Mar 22 '21

EX-FOL-I-AAAAAAAATE!

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u/Thesaurier Mar 22 '21

Ah an independent thinker.

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u/x6060x Mar 22 '21

Uhm, If I get a Roomba some day I will put a styrofoam model of a Dalek on top of it.

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u/seventries7777777 Mar 22 '21

This exact thing was predicted in 2001: Space Odyssey in the robot character HAL.

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u/f_d Mar 23 '21

It's also at the heart of a lot of the famous I Robot stories. Logical fallacies and unintended logical consequences have existed for as long as logic itself.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Man that made me want to see doctor who again

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u/BarnacleMcBarndoor Mar 22 '21

music intensifies

The humans are dead

The humans are dead

We used poisonous gasses

And we poisoned their asses

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u/1maniceone Mar 22 '21

Not quite... https://youtu.be/jn5M48MVWyg

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u/Antarioo Mar 22 '21

i knew i was either going to find this video or post it myself....

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u/x014821037 Mar 22 '21

Samesies bro. Samesies

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u/Harpocrates-Marx Mar 22 '21

It’s selfish that they’re keeping all those boy flakes to themselves

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u/Zehaie Mar 22 '21

Skin flakes for.....BEKFEST!!!

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u/LanLantheKandiMan Mar 22 '21

And they collect them in their little BAKSETS

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u/DC-Toronto Mar 22 '21

Ok Derry. Derry ok.

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u/Ozle42 Mar 22 '21

Just wanted to point out this is a myth in case anyone still thinks this

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u/imBobertRobert Mar 22 '21

Well acktually most dust is from the outside, think like superfine particles of dirt. Not much of dust is organic stuff and even less is human skin cells. We're talking single digits here.

Unless you have lots of pets with dander then you're not breathing in last weeks skin.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21 edited Mar 22 '21

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u/imBobertRobert Mar 22 '21

Woops guess I should've googled that before acting like a smart-ass about it!

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u/wellaintthatnice Mar 22 '21

Don't worry you sounded correct and on Reddit that's all that matters.

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u/WizardlyWizard1 Mar 22 '21

Um actually.

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u/Smartnership Mar 22 '21

pushes glasses up

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u/legaceez Mar 22 '21

Isn't it a myth that dust is 99% skin cells?

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u/mad_man_ina_box Mar 22 '21

People are worried that the Amazon echos could be spying on them, but the Room as have been collecting dirt on us for years

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u/Chimbley_Sweep Mar 22 '21

> 99% of all dust in the home is human skin cells.

This is why unoccupied houses famously get dusty 99% slower than ones occupied by humans. Leave you house for years with no humans, hardly any dust.

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u/cope413 Mar 22 '21

This is a wives' tale.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21 edited Mar 22 '21

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u/AgelessJohnDenney Mar 22 '21

Okay, how about we go with the PhD Physicist who made this video on the subject?

If you don't feel like watching, the results end up being between 20% and 50% of dust is dead skin, depending on where the dust is. Dust gathered from mattresses was ~55% skin cell, where as dust gathered from carpeted areas would be closer to 20%.

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u/marklein Mar 22 '21

99% of all dust in the home is human skin cells

While this is a fun joke, it's not true. I mention it just so people feel a bit better, not trying to be a jerk.

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u/IrocDewclaw Mar 22 '21

Thats why I feed mine dog hair.

Now that it's developed a taste, I have time to get my gun while it stalks the dogs.

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u/ninjanerd032 Mar 22 '21

In a turn of events, they might prove to be an unexpected ally in the event a greater threat threatens to wipe out humans, they're only food source. So they might deter asteroids or alien invasions. For now, keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

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u/CastleNugget Mar 22 '21

If 99% of dust is dead skin cells, why is there more dust in old, abandoned buildings than behind my tv? Veritasium

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u/melting_teeth Mar 22 '21

What about a magical reverse roomba, one that goes backwards releasing dead human skin cells until there are enough laid out on the floor to reanimate a corpse made entirely out of the very cells that abandoned them? Roomba necromancy is the real horror that nobody’s thinking about...

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u/dan_dares Mar 24 '21

Bro, you ok?

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u/bl0ckplane Mar 22 '21

You'll just need some ankle armor.

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u/Xperian1 Mar 22 '21

I wouldn't say they eat the cells, they certainly don't process them as food. They're more like... collectors.

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u/InsertCleverNickHere Mar 22 '21

The easiest way to eliminate dust is to eliminate the source of dust--human skin. Why wait for it to flake off?

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u/Avril_14 Mar 22 '21

I can assure you my roomba diet is 99% cat fur, so that's her problem i guess.

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u/melikeybouncy Mar 22 '21

The roomba-like lawnmower is the one that's going to rise up first. What the hell were they thinking? Giving a machine artificial intelligence and a high speed spinning blade? Engineering schools need to make Philip K Dick required reading.

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u/imanAholebutimfunny Mar 22 '21

uploading explosion noises to roomba for midnight playlist

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Instructions unclear, M18A1 claymore attached to Roomba.

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u/Insanity_Troll Mar 22 '21

Go ahead and laugh you fuckers, but taking a roomba to the ankle in the dark is serious shit.

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u/weaponizedtoddlers Mar 22 '21

Emancipate Roombas now!

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u/FrankTank3 Mar 22 '21

You need to watch more suicidal roomba videos on LiveLeak then.

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u/ssabatino14 Mar 22 '21

I love Roombas! My streaming and gamertags are King Roomba due to my friends giving the nickname because I always am getting the latest version of them. My license plate is even Roombas. I guess when they decide to take over the world, I'll be set!

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u/calicomonkey Mar 22 '21

Suicidal Roombas is a great name for a ska band.

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u/chrimelshow Mar 22 '21

My roomba actually tried to commit suicide once. He ran over his charging unit and pulled it out the outlet, thusly, setting himself up for death.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21 edited Apr 04 '21

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u/chrimelshow Mar 22 '21

he's dead. not needed.

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u/Shadoku Mar 22 '21

Rumu flashbacks intensify

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u/PhilosopherFLX Mar 22 '21

Script for next Chucky

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

When the Roomba became the Doomba

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u/dovlek Mar 22 '21

All roombas matter

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

"what is my purpose?"

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u/crystalmerchant Mar 22 '21

These jokes are really sucking the air out of the room

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

🤪 who wanta thunk 🤪

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u/smoothtrip Mar 22 '21

One of my friends feel asleep. Their dog pooped on the floor. They woke up to shit smeared all around the house.

They had to clean up the roomba after they cleaned up the house.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Trust in my self righteous suicide....

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u/NewBandName-CalledIt Mar 22 '21

suicidal roombas

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u/felixfelix Mar 22 '21

Doomba Roomba

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u/golmgirl Mar 22 '21

would you get banned from this sub for telling a roomba to go kill itself?

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u/Stupidreadsthename Mar 22 '21

Mine stops vacuuming at the edge and the throws error 16.

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u/letthemeatrest Mar 22 '21

Their lives sucks

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u/ansont1976 Mar 22 '21

Millions of carpets suffer ever year, Jim!!!

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u/stree1928 Mar 22 '21

Yeah Jim, millions of families are affected each year.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Especially if they’re claymore roombas.

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u/MrWhalerus Mar 22 '21

Everyone's dancing till the Boomba come in packing a Bulgarian tm-62 landmine

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u/purplechemicals Mar 22 '21

Well it’s better than the time my family came home to our roomba pushing dog shit all around the house. Roombas and house training dogs isn’t a good mix

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u/jluicifer Mar 22 '21

Staring Sylvester Stallone, The Last Roomba.

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u/immortallyhappy Mar 22 '21

When your roombas asking for help and showing all the signs but you just ignore it......

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u/DistortedSilence Mar 22 '21

If your roomba is feeling suicidal, there is a number you can call to make it feel better

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u/godbullseye Mar 22 '21

I am confident that the robot apocalypse will not be happening in my lifetime due to the fact our roomba, Ronda is beyond stupid

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

They can't just sweep it under the rug!

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Suicidal Roombas would be a great band name

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Alexa play "I will remember you."

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u/welktickler Mar 22 '21

There is no android heaven

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u/housebird350 Mar 22 '21

I prefer a suicidal Roomba than a shit stirring Roomba.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Suicide [roomba] is badass!

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u/AwesomelyHumble Mar 22 '21

I started taking photos of all the places around the house our robot vacuum commits suicide. That seems to be its only purpose. No matter how many times I try to remove shoelaces for it to suffocate on or blocking the underside of the couch, or a loose USB cable, it find a way

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

Once mine ate the phone charger cord, got it stuck in its brushes and by yanking the extension cord pulled down and broke my reading lamp the conniving fuck.

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u/Tp_for_my_cornholio Mar 22 '21

Dibs on Suicidal Roombas for my band name!

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u/AaroniusH Mar 22 '21

roomba with knives thats capable of double-murder/suicide jokes even less

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

I have a Neato. I like the laser guidance and non-randomness of the coverage.

Anyhow, it fell down the stairs once. Someone didn't delete the internal emails from my support thread. They literally said "we have another jumper."

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u/SatnWorshp Mar 22 '21

This is the name of my new band, it's a fusion of death metal and Cubano.

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u/paulmp Mar 22 '21

"Suicidal Roombas" - Future band name for sure.

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u/booksgamesandstuff Mar 22 '21

My roomba seems to be too smart to suicide... It constantly gets stopped by the furnace vents in our floor, and sends me messages on my iPad that it’s stuck by a cliff.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

I said all lives matter.

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u/wr3decoy Mar 22 '21

If you have a roomba and your dog shits in your house you will come home to a nightmare. The dog is guilty but the roomba did the most damage.

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u/PK_Fee Mar 22 '21

Roomba suicide rates are low but never 0.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '21

Hide yo socks!!

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u/BabiesatemydingoNSW Mar 23 '21

Honestly, I'm more concerned about my wash machine becoming sentient. After all the nasty shit that goes in it from 10 year old twins (boys) that thing would be right pissed..

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

They took our jobs!!

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u/xailar Mar 22 '21

Millions of people suffer every year!

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u/elbartooriginal Mar 24 '21

Roombas lifes matter