APOD and General Astronomy Discussion Forum
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Not a biggie; but I think I referred to him as Mr. APOD.geckzilla wrote:A little trivia for you: I had meant to type Mr. Robot as orin had been referring to him, but somehow the t escaped.
Anyway I think I prefer Mr. Robo. Sounds more friendly and less mechanical somehow.Maybe Mr. APOD could set one up for discussion once in a while.
Orin
Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For doing the jobs that nobody wants to
And thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For helping me escape
Would that be a copyright?bystander wrote:We could go with Dennis DeYoung (Styx) - "Mr. Roboto"Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For doing the jobs that nobody wants to
And thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For helping me escape
In keeping with the style of our times, we might call it the aPod.orin stepanek wrote:I think we should pick a name for the APOD Robot!
I'm not sure you can copyright a name, but wasn't really a serious suggestion.orin stepanek wrote:Would that be a copyright?
On the internet, no one can see you cry. But no, I wouldn't want that to happen.geckzilla wrote:I'll be... sad. I might cry. You wouldn't want that to happen, would you?
Oh, no, visions of RoboCoporin stepanek wrote:Combining robot and APOD how about Robapod? But who gets to select?
So are you that uncle everybody is referring torstevenson wrote:Robo, aRob, Bob, etc.
While I am chuffed* by all these references to variations on my name, I hereby decline the honour, such as it is.
(the one and only) Rob
* chuffed, n., To be quite pleased with oneself in the manner of a child going potty unassisted.
------------------------------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Space wrote:
B-9: Warning! Warning! Alien approaching!
B-9: Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
B-9: I am sorry, Will Robinson, I am afraid I goofed.
B-9: My micromechanism thanks you, my computer tapes thank you, and I thank you.
B-9: That does not compute.
B-9: Affirmative.
B-9: The day is Thursday. The month is March. The year is...
Dr. Smith: Never mind the year.
<<The Robot: The Robot is a Model B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot, which had no given name. Although a machine endowed with superhuman strength and futuristic weaponry, he often displayed human characteristics such as laughter, sadness, and mockery as well as singing and playing the guitar. The Robot was performed by Bob May in a prop costume built by Bob Stewart. The voice was dubbed by Dick Tufeld, who was also the series' narrator. The Robot was designed by Robert Kinoshita, whose other cybernetic claim to fame is as the designer of Forbidden Planet's Robby the Robot. Robby appears in LIS #20 "War of the Robots", and the first episode of season three; "Condemmed of space".>>
------------------------------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bender_Bending_Rodr%C3%ADguez wrote:
<<Bender (full name Bender Bending Rodríguez), designated Bending Unit 22, is voiced by John DiMaggio. Bender is described by Leela as an "alcoholic, whore-mongering, chain-smoking gambler". He was built in Mexico and is said to possess a "swarthy Latin charm" despite not having a Mexican accent. He is also prejudiced against non-robots, often expressing an urge to "kill all humans".>>
------------------------------------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android wrote:
<<Marvin is the ship's robot aboard the starship Heart of Gold. He was built as a prototype of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's GPP (Genuine People Personalities) technology. Marvin is apparently afflicted with severe depression and boredom, in part because he has a "brain the size of a planet" which he is seldom able to use. When kidnapped by the bellicose Krikkit robots and tied to the interfaces of their intelligent war computer, Marvin simultaneously manages to plan the entire planet's military strategy, solve "all of the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except his own, three times over," and compose a number of lullabies. He seemed to find this last task the hardest, and only one, "How I Hate the Night", is known.
Adams also admitted that Marvin is part of a long line of literary depressives, such as A. A. Milne's Eeyore or Jacques in Shakespeare's As You Like It, and even owes something to Adams's own periods of depression.
"I didn't ask to be made: no one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter. I don't think it even occurred to them that I might have feelings. After I was made, I was left in a dark room for six months... and me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I called for succour in my loneliness, but did anyone come? Did they hell. My first and only true friend was a small rat. One day it crawled into a cavity in my right ankle and died. I have a horrible feeling it's still there...">>
-----------------------------------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Robot wrote:
<<Robby the Robot is a 6-foot, 11-inch tall mechanical suit designed for an actor to wear, to play the part of a robot. It was originally designed for the 1956 MGM movie Forbidden Planet, and quickly became an icon. In Forbidden Planet, Robby was operated by Frankie Darro from inside the suit and his distinctive voice was provided by actor Marvin Miller (18 July 1913 - 8 February 1985) probably best remembered for his role as Michael Anthony, the man who passed out a weekly check, on the TV series "The Millionaire" (1955).
-----------------------------------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok wrote:
<<Tik-Tok (sometimes spelled Tiktok) is a round-bodied mechanical man that runs on clockwork springs which periodically need to be wound, like a wind-up toy or mechanical clock. He has separate windings for thought, action, and speech. Tik-Tok is unable to wind any of them up himself. He becomes frozen or mute or, for one memorable moment in The Road to Oz, continues to speak but utters gibberish. When he speaks, only his teeth move. His knees and elbows are described as resembling those in a knight's suit of armor.
As Baum repeatedly mentions, Tik-Tok is not alive and feels no emotions. He therefore can no more love or be loved than a sewing machine, but as a servant he is utterly truthful and loyal. He describes himself as a "slave" to Dorothy and gives her deference.
Tik-Tok was invented by Smith and Tinker at their workshop in Evna. He is the only model of his kind before the two disappeared. He was purchased by the king of Ev, Evoldo, who gave him the name Tik-Tok because of the sound he made when wound. The cruel king also whipped his mechanical servant, but that simply kept Tik-Tok's round copper body polished.
Tik-Tok first appears in Ozma of Oz (1907) where Dorothy Gale discovers him locked up in a cave, immobilized. He becomes Dorothy's servant and protector, and, despite his tendency to run down at crucial moments, helps to subdue the Nome King. That novel also introduces Tik-Tok's monotonic, halting mode of speech: "Good morn-ing, lit-tle girl.">>
-----------------------------------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiki wrote:
<<Twiki is a fictional character on the television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Twiki (pronounced twee-kee) is a robot sometimes referred throughout the series as an "ambuquad" (which, as depicted in the episode, "Twiki is Missing", refers to a specialized series of robots made for work in space mines). Built by an ambuquad facility in New Chicago, the same episode also reveals that the robot's model number is 22-23-T. The character's name, "Twiki," is derived from the robot's alphanumeric designation: TWKE-4, as revealed in the episode, "Shgoratchx!" Most notably in the first season, Twiki was often seen carrying Dr. Theopolis around with him.
Mel Blanc provided the voice for the character in most episodes. Blanc's voicing for Twiki is somewhat of a cross between two of his characters from Merrie Melodies, namely Yosemite Sam and Porky Pig. Twiki was well known for frequently blurting a low key "bidi-bidi-bidi" for no reason. This was also how he spoke with other robots.>>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWiki
<<TWiki is a structured wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal. Users can create wiki applications using the TWiki Markup Language, and developers can extend its functionality with plugins. In October 2008, the company TWiki.net, created by Thoeny, assumed full control over the TWiki project while another part of the developer community forked off the Foswiki project.>>
--------------------------------------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Hole wrote:
<<The Palomino crew finds a crew of humanoid, faceless robots onboard the Cygnus, along with the ship's Commander, Doctor Hans Reinhardt, who explains that he commands an army of robots, including the hulking, ominous Maximilian. Reinhardt reveals that he is working on a project to fly the Cygnus into the black hole and explore beyond.
Old B.O.B. (voice of the late Slim Pickens), a damaged earlier model robot similar to V.I.N.CENT ("Vital Information Necessary CENTralized" , voice of the late Roddy McDowall), explains that the faceless drones are in fact the former crew, who mutinied when Reinhardt refused to return to Earth, and have since been reprogrammed, a procedure similar to a lobotomy, to serve him. Reinhardt orders the Palomino shot down, resulting in a collision which damages the Cygnus. The Cygnus is further damaged by a meteor storm and begins to be torn apart by the black hole. Reinhardt is crushed by falling equipment, however, and Maximilian appears to decline to rescue him, preferring to seek and confront the humans. Reaching them, Maximilian shoots Old B.O.B. beyond repair but is itself destroyed by V.I.N.CENT and drifts out of the ship and into the hole. Holland, Pizer, McCrae, and V.I.N.CENT make it to the probe but find that it has been programmed to fulfill Reinhardt's objective: a flight through the black hole.>>
bystander wrote:Quite a list from which to choose!
I like Tom Servo or Crow T Robot from MST3K (forced viewing of material not under their control).
-----------------------------------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(short_story) wrote:
<<"I, Robot" is a science fiction short story by Eando Binder (nom de plume for Earl and Otto Binder) about a robot named Adam Link. It was published in the January, 1939 issue of Amazing Stories, well before the related and more known book I, Robot (1950), a collection of short stories, by Isaac Asimov. Asimov was heavily influenced by the Binder short story: "It certainly caught my attention. Two months after I read it, I began 'Robbie', about a sympathetic robot, and that was the start of my positronic robot series. Eleven years later, when nine of my robot stories were collected into a book, the publisher named the collection I, Robot over my objections."
The story is a robot's confession. Some weeks earlier its builder, Dr. Charles Link, built it in the basement. Link teaches his robot to walk, talk and behave civilly. Link's housekeeper sees the robot just enough to be horrified by it, but his dog is totally loyal to it. The robot is fully educated in a few weeks, Link then names it Adam Link, and it professes a desire to serve any human master who will have it. Soon afterwards, a heavy object falls on Dr. Link by accident and kills him. His housekeeper instantly assumes that the robot has murdered Dr. Link, and calls in armed men to hunt it down and destroy it. They don't succeed; in fact, they provoke the robot to retaliate, both by refusing to listen to it and by accidentally killing Dr. Link's dog. Back at the house, the robot finds a copy of Frankenstein, which Dr. Link had carefully hidden from the robot, and finally somewhat understands the hysterical prejudice against it. But in the end the robot decides that it simply isn't worth killing several people just to get a hearing, writes its confession, and prepares to turns itself off.
Binder's "I, Robot" was adapted for an episode of the 1960s science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits in 1964, starring Leonard Nimoy and Howard Da Silva, and again for the 1990s revival of the series. Binder's story was very innovative for its time, one of the first robot stories to break away from the Frankenstein clichés.>>
-----------------------------------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad
<<The Cyberiad (Polish: Cyberiada) is a series of short stories by Stanisław Lem. The main protagonists of the series are Trurl and Klapaucius, the "constructors". The vast majority of characters are either robots, or intelligent machines. The stories focus on problems of the individual and society, as well as on the vain search for human happiness through technological means.
Trurl and Klapaucius are brilliant (robotic) engineers, called "constructors" (because they can construct practically anything at will), capable of almost God-like exploits. For instance, on one occasion the two constructors re-arrange stars near their home planet in order to advertise. On another, Trurl creates an entity capable of extracting accurate information from the random motion of gas particles, which he calls a "Demon of the Second Kind". He describes the "Demon of the First Kind" as a Maxwell's demon.
The duo are best friends and rivals. When they are not busy constructing revolutionary mechanisms at home, they travel the universe, aiding those in need. Most of the stories involve Trurl and Klapaucius using their extraordinary technological abilities to help the inhabitants of the medieval planets, usually involving neutralizing tyrants.>>
- "We want the Demon, you see, to extract from the dance of atoms only information that is genuine, like mathematical theorems, fashion magazines, blueprints, historical chronicles, or a recipe for ion crumpets, or how to clean and iron a suit of asbestos, and poetry too, and scientific advice, and almanacs, and calendars, and secret documents, and everything that ever appeared in any newspaper in the Universe, and telephone books of the future…"
TRURL would be much happier:bystander wrote: and Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide ... (I had forgotten about him, but I really like Douglas Adams),
although Edward Scissorhands might be a good one (snip, snip)..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asta wrote:
<<As a character in the movie The Thin Man, Asta was the playful pet dog of Nick and Nora Charles, tugging them around town on his walks, hiding from danger, and sniffing out corpses. ("Asta, you're not a terrier, you're a police dog," Nick tells him.) The original character of Asta in Dashiell Hammett's book of the The Thin Man was not a male Wire-Haired Fox Terrier, but a female Schnauzer. Asta's enduring fame is such that the name is a frequent answer in The New York Times crossword puzzles in response to clues such as "Dog star.">>
Trueneufer wrote:Considering the advantage that the APOD robot kindly provides us with
all the pertinent links & URLs ADAM LINK or TRURL might be more appropriate:
