This is obvious. It has been demonstrated time and again. Metropolis. The Day the Earth Stood Still. Forbidden Planet. Terminator. Battlestar Galactica. I, Robot (the movie). Westworld. Short Circuit. Just to mention film.
But seriously, a "battlefield robot snake"? From the Israeli Military? Was "battlefield robot spider" not feasible or scary enough?
Really, the point at which you're making anything with a name that begins "battlefield robot", it's time to take a good, hard look at what exactly you think you're doing.
I mean, LOOK at this thing.
Good Lord, why???update: Fox News has a video. Click here.
Why, you ask?
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget the extreme importance of snakes/serpents in the Jewish religious tradition.
Let's not forget the Serpent in the Garden.
Let's not forget the serpent that will be crushed beneath the heel of Eve's offspring.
And let's not forget Moses and Aaron--and snakes. Moses threw his staff on the ground and it turned into a snake before Pharaoh--and Aaron's turns into a serpent.
Not to mention Numbers 21: 4-9--let's not forget that. God tells Moses to make a fiery (brazen/bronze)serpent and set it on a standard as a cure for snake bite.
Let's not forget that in Israel, the Nehushtan or Nehustan was a sacred object in the form of a copper (fiery, brazen)serpent on a pole, although destroyed in the seventh century BC by King Hezekiah as part of his iconoclasm.
So, hey! I can't believe the Israelis didn't make a robot snake BEFORE this.
Ok, I'll bite. (ugh, sorry. snake humor.)
ReplyDeleteThe first two sections you mention show the snake to be bad. So, no reason to build a robot death snake.
Moses and Aaron's staff/snakes are the best argument for your position, as these staff/snakes are used against Jewish enemies. The question is: Did God tell them to make the robot death snake and its all seeing eye of horror?
The last two totally back up my fear. God tells Moses to build this snake and use it. It is powerful. But, as time goes by, people misunderstand its power. Ultimately, people fall under its sway, to the extent that it must be destroyed.
Sound familiar? Sounds like a narrowly avoided robot apocalypse, no?
So really, even if God told them to build this robot death snake, with its all seeing eye of horror and all-the-better-to-sneak-up-on-you-and-kill-you camouflage, the fact remains that soon, will have to put this monstrosity down.
It's it or us.
The end of the last sentence should read "we will have to put this monstrosity down."
ReplyDeleteStupid computer. Write what I mean, not what I type.
Oh, and let's not forget the healing snakes of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine and healing whose caduceus is a staff with a snake twining around it.
ReplyDeleteEh? eh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius
Check out the statue with the snakes
Check out the cauceus here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus
(note--two serpents, just as for Moses and Aaron)
I think the overarching point that must be considered is that Indiana Jones does not like snakes. Therefore, snakes are not cool.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when kept as pets they must often be fed live food. This is disturbing to watch.