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[challenge entry] Very, very nerdy


Anticipating a sea of RIS here. Will give the benefit of the doubt prior to giving clues...

Ah go on then... DE-RIS (maybe)

yes it does depend on which version you've watched.

From the Robots in History challenge. See all 398 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:31, archived)
# too nerdy for me
other than he's the robot, what's the history bit and why is he cut out?

*edit - ahhhh, so the background is Apocalypse now? could have picked a more recognisable spot!
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:32, archived)
# I'm with this.
Half lost, somewhere near Doncaster.
(I helped save b3ta! MrPineapple .co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE., Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:33, archived)
# IT IS HARSIN FOD
ALSO: IDNIANA JOENS THAY ARE FAMIS IN HISTRY.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:35, archived)
# Yeah but that was the only screenshot I could get with Harrison in it...
Ho hum...
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:37, archived)
# It's possible/likely that Deckerd is a REPLICANT.
Serious RIS.

Apocalypse Now - Classic film, but Historical?

Deckerd, possibly a replicant. An artificial being but not a robot.

But what's the link to Apocalypse Now?
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:51, archived)
# Harrison ford was in Apocalypse Now
...um... i think thats it
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:52, archived)
# Apocalypse Now = Vietnam War = Historical event
Harrison Ford in bladerunner = Robot.

er... that's about it.

Very nerdy, but then I said that in the first place.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:58, archived)
# Not robot!
Robots = metal and plastic.

Replicants = flesh and blood. Cloned, genetically modified humans with artificial personalities.
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 16:00, archived)
# Man, are people getting seriously specific about the definition of a robot...
Pass round the spliff guys, stop hogging it.
(I helped save b3ta! brown-wings Made with three kinds of butter, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 16:56, archived)
# Goodness!
That's Harrison Ford?
Doesn't look like him!

OK I am de-RIS'd.

But replicants ain't robots. No Sir.
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:54, archived)
# Ooo now we're really plumbing the dpths of the subject...
Do genetically engineered androids qualify as robots?

class?
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 16:01, archived)
#
To categorise a replicant as a robot is simply incorrect. It is like suggesting that a rocking horse is a pony on the grounds that they look similar and you can ride them both. One is clearly alive and the other is not.

Androids are (by looking at the root of the word) things that look like men. It's a term commonly given to any kind of humaniform robot.

R2D2 is a robot because he doesn't look human. C3PO is an android.
Bishop from Aliens is (although squishy) is an humaniform robot and thus termed an android (although I understand they prefer the term Artificial Person).

A genetically modified lifeform is simply a variant of that species. IMO a replicant is human. Artificially created, yes, but definitely a human.

Sadly it's 0120 here so I won't be around to see any reply. A shame because pedantry is the essence of geekery :) 'nite
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 16:15, archived)
# Yes
But what's the background?
(I helped save b3ta! crazygibbon all your monster munch are belong to us, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:33, archived)
# I'll just leave this here outside your door
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Origami-crane.jpg
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:33, archived)
# Wasn't it a unicorn?
(I helped save b3ta! MrPineapple .co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE., Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:34, archived)
# ^this^
because thats what he sees in his dream
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:35, archived)
# OK FUCK YOU ALL
YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT ROBOTS
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:37, archived)
# MOFAHA: LOOKING LIKE A DORK SINCE 1853
(I helped save b3ta! MrPineapple .co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE., Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:42, archived)
# There are no such things as unicorns young man.
Your flight of fancy ends here.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:36, archived)
# but
I had a dream about one :,(
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:37, archived)
# Something big and muscular
with a prominent horn? Are you sure it was a unicorn?
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:38, archived)
# now that you mention it
might have been Dizzy Gillespie
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:42, archived)
# looks like harrison ford playing Rick deckard to me...
merry rismas
(I helped save b3ta! NeeNoo, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:33, archived)
# ummm
what?
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:35, archived)
# Wake up
time to die
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:35, archived)
# Gordon Bennet...
That's stretching it a bit...
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:37, archived)
# Always pushing the boundaries, me ;)
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:38, archived)
# It's good...
But one for the supersupersupernerds!
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:39, archived)
# in my defence
I did kind of categorise it as such...

*zips anorak all the way up*
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:41, archived)