A Flame-Throwing Robo Dog is Here!
Well, I now know what to ask for this upcoming Christmas!. The Thermonator , a flame-throwing robotic dog offered by a Cleveland company, is back in stock for $9,420, which includes free delivery in the United States. It looks like something Skynet could have devised, a companion perhaps to a T-800…
The Robo-dog is eerily reminiscent of the relentless, robotic guard and sentry device featured in the Metalhead episode of Black Mirror. That creation, however, was a fully-autonomous artificial intelligence device equipped with a firearm, and capable of using improvised environmental weaponry. Thermonator is remotely controlled by an operator, and not considered a firearm, thus not federally-regulated. Flamethrowers are banned in Maryland, however, and require a permit in California…local regulations may also apply, so check before you buy…
A 30-foot flamethrower range is nothing to sneeze at, however, and the manufacturer cites applications of snow and ice removal, agriculture, ecological conservation, wildlife control (*shudders*), and special effects generation. I would also imagine that possession of one could deter religious and political solicitors, and door-to-door salesmen. No more hiding, and pretending that you aren’t home when unwanted relatives visit unannounced, either! – – Sic ‘em, Fido! 😸
Oh, brave new world that we live in! I’ll have to be on the lookout for these bad doggies, not wanting to become a crispy critter for someone using it for “wildlife control.” My life isn’t too wild, frankly…sad though it is to admit it. Downright boring, actually… 😿
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April 29, 2024 at 8:29 pm
Thermonator sounds more like AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Escape & Evader) from the 2000 sci-fi adventure “Red Planet” (where the first manned expedition to Mars experienced technical difficulties and crashed, damaging the robot’s CPU).
As for “wildlife control”? I think that alludes more towards insect infestations. Like that current overabundance of cicadas down South!
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April 30, 2024 at 2:10 pm
I remember “Red Planet!” AMEE shifted into military mode once damaged, becoming a hunter-killer.
They can fry all of the cicadas they want, as long as they don’t fry me… 🙀
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April 30, 2024 at 4:36 pm
I think you’re safe enough. I don’t recall foxes ever being one of the animals depicted in Post Crispy Critters. ;-)
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April 30, 2024 at 5:24 pm
*sings* “The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals!” 😸
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April 30, 2024 at 7:56 pm
LOL!
X-D
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May 3, 2024 at 3:21 am
Speaking of edible animals, I was watching a rerun of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show from 5/2/1990. And, in a skit involving TV memorabilia that were erroneously thought long-lost (like the original pilot film for I LOVE LUCY), one of the sight gags involved the favorite fast food of Gordon “ALF” Shumway. A bucket of Kentucky Fried Cat!
The bucket had a fur-lon tail sticking out the top…and a picture of Garfield on the sides. 😉
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May 3, 2024 at 9:10 am
That would not play well with cat lovers today, but as Steve Martin once observed, “Comedy isn’t pretty.” 🙀
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April 30, 2024 at 7:58 pm
Darn it! I thought sure one of those would automatically materialize as the “hysterical laughter” emoji. :-(
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April 30, 2024 at 7:59 pm
One more test. :lol:
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April 30, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Drat!!!
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April 30, 2024 at 10:33 pm
Oh well! No one can say you didn’t try… 😩
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May 1, 2024 at 10:42 am
I laud you for using restrained language, Sir! 😸
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May 4, 2024 at 2:50 am
Or as Edmund Gwenn is supposed to have said on his deathbed: “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard!”
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May 4, 2024 at 2:56 am
That being said, I still get a kick out of Simon Bond’s 101 USES FORA DEAD CAT (copyright 1981).
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May 4, 2024 at 10:42 am
I remember that book! I always had a taste for dark humor, but today people are much too easily offended… 🙀
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May 6, 2024 at 6:53 pm
Sad, but true 😦
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May 12, 2024 at 1:50 pm
Vulpes’ first thought: “Didn’t I just say that, a few lines further up?”
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