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"I kind of take it for granted that our great-grandchildren will regard us as a sort of precursor species. That they won't think of us as human and if we could see them, we probably wouldn't think of them as human either."
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At this point in the film, an electronics engineer has been killed with a unique kind of bullet. How can the Runaway squad find out more?
The answer: the sniffer robot.
(Sniffer Robot from Runaway)
Thanks to the sniffer robot, some of the chemical compounds found on the body provide useful information about the smart bullet. Here's a side view of the sniffer robot.
(Sniffer Robot side view) The mechanical hound from Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 was also able to detect scents. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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