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Title: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: steve58 on January 27, 2023, 11:16:50 AM
Remember him (it?)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.images.dailystar.co.uk%2Fdynamic%2F1%2Fphotos%2F989000%2F936x622%2F602989.jpg&hash=a688b1dde00271e189968cfc979134c3679195d8)

Well, here is his great-great-grandaddy.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/terminators-shape-shifting-liquid-metal-robots-are-finally-here-but-john-connor-is-completely-safe/ar-AA16JAiQ
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: Sigwolf on January 27, 2023, 07:47:10 PM
That would probably be a lot more scary if it looked like actual video footage rather than old-fashioned lego stop-motion.  Call me a cynic if that's their evidence.   :grin:
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: Jarhead0331 on January 27, 2023, 08:08:49 PM
Quote from: Sigwolf on January 27, 2023, 07:47:10 PMThat would probably be a lot more scary if it looked like actual video footage rather than old-fashioned lego stop-motion.  Call me a cynic if that's their evidence.   :grin:

I'm assuming its time lapsed. This thing, if authentic, probably took a very long time to go from solid to liquid and back to solid state again.
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: Sigwolf on January 27, 2023, 08:26:54 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on January 27, 2023, 08:08:49 PM
Quote from: Sigwolf on January 27, 2023, 07:47:10 PMThat would probably be a lot more scary if it looked like actual video footage rather than old-fashioned lego stop-motion.  Call me a cynic if that's their evidence.   :grin:

I'm assuming its time lapsed. This thing, if authentic, probably took a very long time to go from solid to liquid and back to solid state again.
I'm sure, which is why I said "looked like actual video footage".  Even using time-lapse, they could have made it look much more convincing than that. There are very smooth time-lapse videos, even spanning years.  This was not one of those.
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: Jarhead0331 on January 27, 2023, 08:48:15 PM
Quote from: Sigwolf on January 27, 2023, 08:26:54 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on January 27, 2023, 08:08:49 PM
Quote from: Sigwolf on January 27, 2023, 07:47:10 PMThat would probably be a lot more scary if it looked like actual video footage rather than old-fashioned lego stop-motion.  Call me a cynic if that's their evidence.  :grin:

I'm assuming its time lapsed. This thing, if authentic, probably took a very long time to go from solid to liquid and back to solid state again.
I'm sure, which is why I said "looked like actual video footage".  Even using time-lapse, they could have made it look much more convincing than that. There are very smooth time-lapse videos, even spanning years.  This was not one of those.

Well, it seems to be very real. I guess their main focus isn't trying to convince people on the internet.

Here is another example that might be up to your cinematic standards... :tophat:

Mimetic polyalloy (https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/830e9967e1e4a942d3efe11599515ac1.mp4)
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: Sigwolf on January 27, 2023, 09:05:10 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on January 27, 2023, 08:48:15 PM
Quote from: Sigwolf on January 27, 2023, 08:26:54 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on January 27, 2023, 08:08:49 PM
Quote from: Sigwolf on January 27, 2023, 07:47:10 PMThat would probably be a lot more scary if it looked like actual video footage rather than old-fashioned lego stop-motion.  Call me a cynic if that's their evidence.  :grin:

I'm assuming its time lapsed. This thing, if authentic, probably took a very long time to go from solid to liquid and back to solid state again.
I'm sure, which is why I said "looked like actual video footage".  Even using time-lapse, they could have made it look much more convincing than that. There are very smooth time-lapse videos, even spanning years.  This was not one of those.

Well, it seems to be very real. I guess their main focus isn't trying to convince people on the internet.

Here is another example that might be up to your cinematic standards... :tophat:

Mimetic polyalloy (https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/830e9967e1e4a942d3efe11599515ac1.mp4)
:facepalm_picard: I was questioning the media's tenuous attempt to tie the tech to T2 with such poor footage, not it's existence...
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: Jarhead0331 on January 28, 2023, 05:52:17 AM
^oh. That wasn't clear at all.  :uglystupid2:

That was the intent of the product developer though. Not the media. They were trying to be cute.
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: Sir Slash on January 28, 2023, 12:06:17 PM
It would HAVE to be the Chinese of course.  :doh:
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 28, 2023, 02:56:51 PM
QuoteHere is another example that might be up to your cinematic standards... :tophat:

Mimetic polyalloy

now you can eat lead and shit bullets JH!  :ThumbsUp:
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: Jarhead0331 on January 28, 2023, 03:27:48 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 28, 2023, 02:56:51 PM
QuoteHere is another example that might be up to your cinematic standards... :tophat:

Mimetic polyalloy

now you can eat lead and shit bullets JH!  :ThumbsUp:

I've been doing that for years.
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: Gusington on January 28, 2023, 04:18:34 PM
I thought it was 'eat lightning and crap thunder'?
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 28, 2023, 04:48:56 PM
thats burrito night.
Title: Re: Liquid metal robots...they're a thing now for real
Post by: Gusington on January 28, 2023, 06:45:51 PM
Ha noted