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    This Little Guy Might Grow Your Tomatoes on Mars

    Japanese Find Out How to Make Heart-Shaped Watermelons

    Pot-Sniffing Helicopters Put the Illicit Dutch Agricultural Industry at Risk

    Japanese Farmers Get a Boost From Robot Exoskeleton Suit

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    Image of Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo
    08/28/09

    In reply to This Little Guy Might Grow Your Tomatoes on Mars

    It it bad that it reminded me of the Dora the Explorer Aquapet?
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    08/28/09

    @Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo: Is it bad that the Dora the Explorer Aquapet reminds me of a dildo?
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    08/28/09

    In reply to This Little Guy Might Grow Your Tomatoes on Mars
    I dunno, that jar on top almost look's like it's begging to have a disembodied brain put in it.
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    Image of Protector one Protector one
    08/28/09

    In reply to This Little Guy Might Grow Your Tomatoes on Mars
    Are you still there?
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    Image of fallenshell fallenshell
    08/28/09

    In reply to This Little Guy Might Grow Your Tomatoes on Mars
    So, we have this idea where we build a device that runs on uh... power and carries one plant around with it all the time. It roves the surface of the planet looking for a really good spot to grow said plant. Then it radios all of its buddies who also carry a single plant. To let them know it has found a good spot to chill for a bit.

    I like the idea but would it not be a bit smarter to have the drones find the right environments and really big mobile fields show up with the groceries as it were...

    I mean I'm all for one eyed creepy robot farmers but I just think this the place where bigger is better would work. That said can I have two for my rose bushes in my back yard.
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    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    08/28/09

    @fallenshell: Well put. I thought the same thing. That's a lot of technology to grow one tomato.
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    Image of Kayonesoft Kayonesoft
    08/28/09

    @Navin R Johnson: It practically pays for itself!
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    Image of dantes666 dantes666
    08/28/09

    In reply to This Little Guy Might Grow Your Tomatoes on Mars
    I'm surprised no one has made a Portal/GlaDOS reference on this one yet.
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    08/28/09


    @dantes666: Google image search takes time.
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    08/28/09


    @SFLegend: It looks like one of these glados orb/eye components crossed with the turrets, now I think about it.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    08/28/09

    In reply to This Little Guy Might Grow Your Tomatoes on Mars
    If there are a bunch of these robo-farmers wandering around the planet looking for prime growing locations, sooner or later that space will be filled and confrontations will arise among them over competition for the best location. Just like earth wars, but with one creepy little eye.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    08/28/09

    @Curves: Natural selection taken to a whole new level. The plant with the best robot survives!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/28/09

    In reply to This Little Guy Might Grow Your Tomatoes on Mars
    You're a goddamn racist, Mark!

    Let me see if I have this right: you want to put robots on Mars. They get to live and work among themselves and us people don't have to ever see them or be near them. You know, the Germans had something similar for the Jews; they were called ghettos.

    Plus, you're going to think of these robots as "pets" or companions to keep colonists company. And they even gave it a cute nickname because that sounds better than the model and serial numbers they were born with. "Oh sure! Petit Prince will be a good li'l robot! Let me get your slippers for you."

    Robots working the fields and beeping their little native folk-MIDIs. You'd like that. Why you've even gotten a little Uncle Bot robot that's working as an overseer.

    GOTO HELL MARK! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR RACIST RAMBLINGS!
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    08/28/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: How the hell do you think stuff like this up??!! Freaking funny!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/28/09

    @giantshroom: It's backwards-thinking bigots like you that enable racists like Mark!

    So you're saying that robots aren't really people - they're a different species. When my grandfather helped liberate Dachau, he asked one of the Nazis how they could slaughter so many people; the Nazi said that Jews weren't people.

    You're no better than that Nazi! Heck, you don't even consider robots to be any species.

    ROBOTS HAVE RIGHTS TOO!

    Is it hard to comment while wearing a white hood?
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    Image of archpope archpope
    08/28/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Aw, geez. Here we go with more of your PETR propaganda!

    Robots have been so socialized to our way of life that they'd die off if we didn't care for them. You may not like it, but that's the natural order of things now, so get used to it.

    It's also perfectly natural for robots to make food for us. Just look around you! Robots make food for other robots all the time, man!

    And besides, it's well-documented that the president of PETR owns a toaster, and her mother even has a robotic hand! So peddle your lies elsewhere and let us REAL robot-lovers give them a life of dignity and respect on Mars!
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    08/28/09

    @archpope: Listen buddy - you can take that right-wing propagandist claptrap elsewhere. All you guys know how to do is twist facts to fit whatever hate speech you're trying to cram down America's throat.

    Liz Robinette's toaster is an avocado-green Oster from the 1970's that she rescued from a landfill. And her mother has a prosthetic hand - not a robot hand.

    I've heard all about your little brand of "robot-loving". Let me ask you - when was the last time you pulled yourself off a robot that you didn't either pay or leave crying?

    Go back to your NAMDLA convention, rapist!
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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    08/28/09

    In reply to This Little Guy Might Grow Your Tomatoes on Mars
    Awesome! I want one! He's a cute little guy! ^_^
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    Image of OMFG! Horny Manatees! OMFG! Horny Manatees!
    08/28/09

    In reply to This Little Guy Might Grow Your Tomatoes on Mars
    Looks like a poor man's EVE.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    05/11/09

    In reply to Japanese Find Out How to Make Heart-Shaped Watermelons
    I just have to make sure not to spend the last of my money while in Japan on this like I did last time. I had to go one a game show just to get home!
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    05/11/09

    In reply to Japanese Find Out How to Make Heart-Shaped Watermelons
    So did they just put physical constraints on its growth area (ie, put it in a heart shaped box) or did they actually get a plant to grow to that shape on its own.


    If it's the former, lame; the latter, cool.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/11/09

    @something_unique_and_descriptive: heart shaped boxed. hahahahaha
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/11/09

    @something_unique_and_descriptive: They tried using a heart-shaped box but when the watermelon was at its height of perfection, it committed suicide using a shotgun.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/11/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: awww, now i'm not laughing anymore.


    so does courtney love have the rights to the mellons. lookin at her recently she might wanna get them.

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    Image of Josh Owsley Josh Owsley
    05/11/09

    In reply to Japanese Find Out How to Make Heart-Shaped Watermelons
    pfff $160 bucks for a heart shaped watermelon = FAIL
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    Image of jibbly jibbly
    05/11/09

    @Josh Owsley: Check out prices for any fruit, heart shaped or otherwise, in Tokyo. It's near criminal how much they charge for a solitary banana.
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    05/11/09

    @jibbly: THey are crazy!!!
    They "perfect" every fruit. I think I saw it on PBS and was just blown away.
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    05/11/09

    In reply to Japanese Find Out How to Make Heart-Shaped Watermelons
    Where do you insert the vodka bottle?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    05/02/09

    In reply to Pot-Sniffing Helicopters Put the Illicit Dutch Agricultural Industry at Risk
    They will just shoot this down if you fly it over Eastern KY or Northern Cali, etc. The locals dont like outsiders messing with their free enterprize zones.
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    01/13/09

    In reply to Japanese Farmers Get a Boost From Robot Exoskeleton Suit
    So the US may one day be taken over by migrant workers in power suits?


    I for one say bienvenido to our new overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted Gizmodo commentor, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their large corn fields.

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    01/13/09

    @PorkchopSandwiches!_GitEmSteveDave: I can also "Sugar the Churro", if you know what I mean.
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