I mean, really, giant steam-powered robotic octopods rising from the deep to take over the world? How many people fantasize about that?
Although, if it were me, I wouldn't be focusing so much on the wicked biped with the gun trying to frustrate the steam-o-pod.
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I, for one, am grateful I have no such dreams.
It is irreducibly complex; therefore, it must be intelligently designed.
You mean... it was only a dream?
Hey! A poll on the Iowa Supreme Court decision:
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So PZ sleeps and dreams about steampunk anime?
Name of the ship..."DONTPANIC". Uh, OK.
Your dream?! Really?
You are Cthulhu! (in primate form)
Somewhere, Captain Nemo goes green with envy and pilots his ship into a whirlpool.
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I liked mine. Some nightmares can be very profitable:
http://hubpages.com/hub/A-Blog-from-Hell
The name of the steamship that the giant robotic octopod is attacking is the Dontpanic which means it was owned by the White Star Line as their ships ending in ic (Olympic, Oceanic, Britannic, and the most famous White Star liner Titanic.
Enough trivia...
Is that Kevin Costner? Investors, run for your lives!
Norman, I was being a smart ass more than anything else. I came up with a much better line long after that. Do PZiods dream of steam octopus?
Thanks for the link.
This is all kinds of cool. I'd be all for something like this happening. It'd be a much more interesting world.
Psychoanalysts like Fromm claimed the deification of technology to be a prominent sign of necrophilia - and wouldn't you know it, Fromm also presented Hitler as the corresponding paragon. Guess that opens up a whole new and exciting line of accusations, PZ.. ;)
Hrmpf. It looks like the deck gun has an Anti-Aircraft sight but won't elevate more than 30 degrees.
What I want to know is, if the tentacles are articulated, why are some of the segments bent?
I for one am glad that I share PZ's dream. Right now he and I are wrestling over the giant octobot's control panel (No, I want to drive, dammit!!!).
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Just don't let the engineers at John Deere see this. Well,
maybe that could be a good thing: soon everybody can get
themselves their own smoke belching, coal powered anti-steampod weapon system (with built-in lawnmower).
Be the first on your block!
trivia..
Although the ship is named in the White Star line series..I can't help but think the ship is modelled on the SS Great Eastern..the midship paddle wheels weren't featured on the White Star ships that I know of..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern
The story of the Great Eastern is fascinating..
trivia..
Although the ship is named in the White Star line series..I can't help but think the ship is modelled on the SS Great Eastern..the midship paddle wheels weren't featured on the White Star ships that I know of..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern
The story of the Great Eastern is fascinating..
Your dream? I thought it was the goal of your research.
PZ is not alone...
Terrors from the deep modelled on Cephalopoda have long been in the dreams of seafarers - take the Kraken for instance, and that old (1955) sci-fi flick with the great Ray Harryhausen monster It Came from Beneath the Sea. The steam driven leviathan in this picture also strikes me as an interesting fusion with HG Well's Martian war machines and the Nautilus.
BTW - The "wicked biped" with the huge and distinctly phallic cannon is an obvious symbolic metaphor for the artist's deep sense of inadequacy about his own genital endowment and sexual prowess.
"Steam octopus"? It's a cookbook!
I seeing steam punk stuff everywhere now. cool.