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Comments on Hamster Controls iRobot Create Vehicle
This hamster knows where he's going; the next step is to soup up this iRobot hobby robot for some real speed. (Read
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| "It's from a Niven story (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handicapped). The protagonist's job is to create prosthetics for sentient creatures without physical manipulators (e.g. dolphins)." ( 3/6/2009 6:16:04 AM) |
| "In the uplift universe, uplifted dolphins use things like this to walk and fight on land." (Vince 3/7/2009 2:45:55 AM) |
| "i can think of two easy ones; the blobby brain people from the Jimmy Neutron movie and H.G. Wells' Martians " (wishnevsky 3/7/2009 5:26:02 AM) |
| "It sounds like you are discribing a couple of aliens from Vernon Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep. Can't remember there names or name of species right now." (Meditating Bear 3/9/2009 9:45:05 AM) |
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