[1446] in peace2
Re: Another brilliant invention by the Media Lab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jed Ela)
Tue Feb 12 14:06:57 2002
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From: Jed Ela <jed@shitbegone.com>
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In case anyone else only read the first two pages of the Afghan Explorer site, please be aware that if you actually read the whole thing, it turns out to be a parody. I found out by flaming them, and then felt kind of silly when Chris (who I know, but didn't know was involved) wrote back to explain it.
I still didn't get if the parody extends beyond the Website, to an actual robot mission in Afghanistan... but I did point out that if it does, they're in for worse irony-translation problems than they had with me!
Jed
>http://web.mit.edu/spotlight/afghanexplorer.html
>
>Afghan Explorer. Another project of the slowly-going-bankrupt MIT Media
>Lab.
>
>Imagine if they used this money to build artificial limbs for kids, or a
>mine detector? Grr...
>
>paladin
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Jed Ela
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