A Redshirt!
Nov. 16th, 2007 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauI never made a habit of Star Trek, but this was amusing:
Your results:
You are An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
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Back from two days of meetings in Vancouver. I'm really tired and teetering on the edge of a cold. Had some good luck finding stuff, though:
MOVIES
Cube
Drive-in Movies vol. 2 (eight crappy old movies on three DVDs with old trailers, cartoons and "let's all go to the lobby" shorts)
God Save The Queen (punk rock video anthology)
Matango (aka Attack of the Mushroom People)
The Mysterians
Pee-Wee's Great Adventure
The Pee-Wee Herman Show volume 2 (got volume 1 for my birthday, now I have them all, except for the Christmas Special!)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Varan the Unbelievable (came in a 3-pack with the other Japanese movies, otherwise I would not have bothered with that radioactive squirrel)
- established that Shakes the Clown is available on DVD, but did not find it. Half the battle is finding out whether these obscure movies I search for are on DVD or not, since most VHS tapes will be landfill in a few years.
CDs
Laurie Anderson - Home of the Brave (my cassette of this died long ago)
Joy Division - Substance
Test Department - Ecstasy Under Duress (I have the old cassette but expect it to die one day)
- did not find the new Einsturzende Neubauten album anywhere.
The place in Gastown where the shop "The Games People" was remains vacant, over a year after they went out of business.
NEWS:
I knew it, friggin' conformist cockroaches... but at least the scientists didn't make robot roaches that could breed with the females....
Scientists build robotic bugs that infiltrate, influence cockroach society
Published: Friday, November 16, 2007 | 11:45 AM ET
Canadian Press: Randolph E. Schmid, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Tiny robots programmed to act like cockroaches were able to blend into roach society, according to researchers studying the collective behaviour of insects.
Cockroaches tend to self-organize into leaderless groups, seeming to reach consensus on where to rest together.
This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows cockroaches and robots interacting for common shelter selection. Tiny robots programmed to act like cockroaches were able to join and participate in cockroach society, according to researchers studying the collective behavior of insects. For example, when provided two similar shelters, most of the group tended to gather under the same one.
Hoping to learn more about this behaviour, researchers led by Jose Halloy at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, designed small robots programmed to act like a cockroach.
The robots didn't look like the insects and at first the roaches fled from them. But after the scientists coated the robots with pheromones that made them smell like roaches, the machines were accepted into the group, nesting together with the insects.
Given a choice, roaches generally prefer a darker place and the robots were programmed to do the same.
When given a choice of a darker or lighter shelter, 75 per cent of the cockroaches and 85 per cent of the robots gathered under the darker one.
Then, to see if the robots had really become part of society and could influence group decisions, Halloy and colleagues programmed them to prefer shelters with more light.
The result, the lighter shelter was preferred by the mixed group 61 per cent of the time, while the cockroaches alone picked it just 27 per cent of the time.
On the other hand, in 39 per cent of cases the robots, despite being programmed to prefer a lighter shelter, joined the cockroaches under the darker one.
The findings were reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
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On the Net:
Science: www.sciencemag.org
Your results:
You are An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
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Since your accomplishments are seldom noticed, and you are rarely thought of, you are expendable. That doesn't mean your job isn't important but if you were in Star Trek you would be killed off in the first episode you appeared in.  |
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Back from two days of meetings in Vancouver. I'm really tired and teetering on the edge of a cold. Had some good luck finding stuff, though:
MOVIES
Cube
Drive-in Movies vol. 2 (eight crappy old movies on three DVDs with old trailers, cartoons and "let's all go to the lobby" shorts)
God Save The Queen (punk rock video anthology)
Matango (aka Attack of the Mushroom People)
The Mysterians
Pee-Wee's Great Adventure
The Pee-Wee Herman Show volume 2 (got volume 1 for my birthday, now I have them all, except for the Christmas Special!)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Varan the Unbelievable (came in a 3-pack with the other Japanese movies, otherwise I would not have bothered with that radioactive squirrel)
- established that Shakes the Clown is available on DVD, but did not find it. Half the battle is finding out whether these obscure movies I search for are on DVD or not, since most VHS tapes will be landfill in a few years.
CDs
Laurie Anderson - Home of the Brave (my cassette of this died long ago)
Joy Division - Substance
Test Department - Ecstasy Under Duress (I have the old cassette but expect it to die one day)
- did not find the new Einsturzende Neubauten album anywhere.
The place in Gastown where the shop "The Games People" was remains vacant, over a year after they went out of business.
NEWS:
I knew it, friggin' conformist cockroaches... but at least the scientists didn't make robot roaches that could breed with the females....
Scientists build robotic bugs that infiltrate, influence cockroach society
Published: Friday, November 16, 2007 | 11:45 AM ET
Canadian Press: Randolph E. Schmid, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Tiny robots programmed to act like cockroaches were able to blend into roach society, according to researchers studying the collective behaviour of insects.
Cockroaches tend to self-organize into leaderless groups, seeming to reach consensus on where to rest together.
This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows cockroaches and robots interacting for common shelter selection. Tiny robots programmed to act like cockroaches were able to join and participate in cockroach society, according to researchers studying the collective behavior of insects. For example, when provided two similar shelters, most of the group tended to gather under the same one.
Hoping to learn more about this behaviour, researchers led by Jose Halloy at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, designed small robots programmed to act like a cockroach.
The robots didn't look like the insects and at first the roaches fled from them. But after the scientists coated the robots with pheromones that made them smell like roaches, the machines were accepted into the group, nesting together with the insects.
Given a choice, roaches generally prefer a darker place and the robots were programmed to do the same.
When given a choice of a darker or lighter shelter, 75 per cent of the cockroaches and 85 per cent of the robots gathered under the darker one.
Then, to see if the robots had really become part of society and could influence group decisions, Halloy and colleagues programmed them to prefer shelters with more light.
The result, the lighter shelter was preferred by the mixed group 61 per cent of the time, while the cockroaches alone picked it just 27 per cent of the time.
On the other hand, in 39 per cent of cases the robots, despite being programmed to prefer a lighter shelter, joined the cockroaches under the darker one.
The findings were reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
-
On the Net:
Science: www.sciencemag.org
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Date: 2007-11-17 08:52 am (UTC)You are James T. Kirk (Captain)
in your speech and expressions.
You are a romantic at heart and a natural leader.
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