I see this more as two separate questions :

I’m hoping for something a little more substance than “because we say so” from the Malaysian Prime Minister. His track record on this incident has not been exactly stellar.

“I police the Internet and help put child pornographers behind bars” sounds like a worthy job description, but I agree that must be a depressing job.

Conspiracy theory : flaperon was planted there by CNN to boost viewership.

Where did you read about that? Link, please. Or, in wikispeak, citation needed :)

To back you up :

No, not on hydrants!

He wasn’t pointing out the substance of the article, which he agreed is there, but about the style. Personally, I can deal with most styles as long as substance is there.

Obviously because prehistoric bacteria has invented time travel. Duh!

That actually got me wondering if there’s a constant background sound on the ISS from machinery.

Maybe “Pentagon” (disclaimer for NSA : I don’t have anything particular against the US DOD, honest).

We don’t know if they destroyed hitchBOT, but we know they trolled a lot of people on the Internet. The best punishment for these two lowlife is to ignore them and don’t give them the attention they crave.

Well, I knew about this type of bridges, from a Gizmodo article! :) But I like the video in this one.

I wonder how long we can keep this going.

Already set a couple aside for Raspberry Pi, but I can’t honestly say I need the other 10 :)

Hero? Bullshit. He’ll be directly responsible for the robot uprising. There will be a call for robots to protect themselves, Asimov’s 3rd Law be damned, and the Supreme Court will rule that the 2nd Amendment is not restricted to homo sapiens, and before we know it, there is no stopping the robot army.

“I’m surprised how upset I actually am,” one of hitchBOT’s creators Dr. Frauke Zeller said

but I think I have at least 2 or 3 times of what is pictures.

“I pulled out all your cables. What are you going to do about it?”

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