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I've already used Clowns to the left of me.... And then I run across an opinion article in today's Guardian: "Let's Get Real on the Environment." by David Appell nicely counterbalanced by Yes. We Can.. Oh dear oh dear.
To begin with the obligatory snarking, anyone with young children in the UK will…
Is this Wall Street Journal editorial clueless or dishonest? Read RealClimate's detailed rebuttal.
Update: David Appell calls it "intellectually dishonest". Sounds about right.
Update 2: Chris Mooney piles on.
David Appell showed David Evans the AGW signature from the IPCC report that Evans claimed was missing. Evans replied:
Comparing a model to observations doesn't prove the model works. It's encouraging to the model builders, but it's not proof. For instance, the model could just be lucky.
So when…
We interrupt your diet of rowing (briefly) to point out that David Appell has found Watts to be rather less than open to inconvenient information - despite Watts having asked for that very information. This is nothing new or interesting, of course. Trolls, please form an orderly queue.
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That is one of the creepiest vids I've ever seen. I can't explain why...it just gives me the willies. Cool technology though!
[It scares me when I think of them being used for crowd control, say. Or worse -W]
Wow. Very cool. I want one.
The balance and posture recovery is particularly impressive.
Mind you, looking at this robot's main website, it appears to be heavily top-down designed, which I find inherently less interesting than behaviour-based robotics, but I'm probably jaded by now, and that doesn't make their accomplishment any less impressive.
It'd be really good to carry the disabled around. Cyborgs at last.
Impressive ... but I'd like to see how it recovers from a force that lifts it and deposits it on its back.
Those guys should produce a dinosaur and use it to simulate footprints. It would be really great to study ichnology. But I am quite sure they are planning much less exhiting things, such as killing enemies in remote controlled night blitzs or so... military people have no fantasy at all.
Will beastie 2.XX have doubled appendages and be called the Big Arachnid?
Mountaineers could use it to bring a G&T up from Everest base camp.
The behavior of the beta version is rather more amusing...
Oops, looks like I botched the HTML again. Meant to link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc