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I've always liked how insects look like armored machines on closeup http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/glamorous-insects.html
– BorgClown, 2008-09-10 at 20:19:13 (21 comments)

	On 2008-09-10 at 20:19:38, BorgClown wrote... They're creepy, but damn, their exoskeletons are beautiful!
	On 2008-09-10 at 20:25:24, Baslisks wrote... It's so cool. I want to develop machines based on bugs.
	On 2008-09-10 at 21:57:15, BorgClown wrote... @Baslisks: Do you develop machines already?
	On 2008-09-10 at 21:58:32, Baslisks wrote... I am in college for mech eng.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:01:52, Korinthian wrote... @BorgClown: insects are icky.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:02:36, BorgClown wrote... @Baslisks: The first time I see insectoid machines conquering the World, I'll yell "<t>I am BorgClown!" so you spare my life.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:02:46, Korinthian wrote... @Baslisks: Do you do any of that awesome brain tissue+computer-> flight simulator stuff?
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:03:12, BorgClown wrote... Why in hell did I use the non-existent <t> tag?
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:05:13, Baslisks wrote... I am mech so I mess more with machines. Bugs are really efficient machines and do all these really cool things really simply. Theres a new paper out how flys avoid fly swatters. Brought my kill count up quite alot too.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:08:56, Korinthian wrote... I read an article not too long ago about a fungus that invaded an insects brain and made that insect climb upwards as far as possible, then it dies at a spot that gives the fungus a great chance of survival once it has eaten the insect from the inside.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:10:06, Korinthian wrote... There is also that insect that shanks its stinger into the brain of other insects and remote controls them back to its lair to be eaten.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:11:42, Baslisks wrote... @Korinthian: read all about those. Insect brains are just real complex reaction engines.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:14:45, BorgClown wrote... @Korinthian: I read that too. And it happens to ants also, who climb to the top of a grass leave, because the fungus thrives in cow dung.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:34:57, Florenz wrote... Other way around maybe.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:36:55, Baslisks wrote... @Florenz: We're humans and we are vain. We like to think we are creative. Though truthfully the idea of armored machines is ours and ours alone so....
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:39:19, Florenz wrote... @Bask: Where do you think people derive their ideas from? Thin air. You are a vain human.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:41:21, Baslisks wrote... @Florenz: In truth, does it matter?
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:42:09, Florenz wrote... @Baslisks: Depends what you think truthiness is.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:42:41, Baslisks wrote... @Florenz: Philosophy ftw?
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:44:48, Florenz wrote... @ Bask: Just really wanted to use a Bushism. Does it really matter in any meaningful way though? No.
	On 2008-09-10 at 22:45:42, Baslisks wrote... @Florenz: I like to think it does. I don't believe it does. Just a nice thing.