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http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/11/robot_identifie.html

Robot Identifies Human Flesh As Bacon
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Let the robot holocaust commence: robots think we taste like bacon.

Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University have designed the cute little guy to the right: a metal man gastronomist, "an electromechanical sommelier", capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d'oeuvres. Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle, amongst other more obscure uses...like "tell me what this strange grayish lump at the back of my freezer is/was."

But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot's omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto.

Absolutely horrifying. Like cows, once robots taste blood, their hunger for human flesh can never be satiated.


I knew it.

What kind of sauce goes best with human?
 
Of course this will really inflame the middle east, and probably lead to the destruction of all Japanese two legged porkchops. :p
 
My mind was racing with ideas of HOW they'd know humans tasted like pork upon first reading the title of the thread. I must admit, robots were not included in my list of possibly scenarios.
 
I severely limit consumption of pork, shellfish, and other "specialty" meats...
As my post in the Un-vegetarizing Myself thread a while back, thank goodness I stayed away from pork. I mean, what does it say when human and pig hearts are compatible?
 
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Like about 500 years old.

When the Europeans brought pigs into what is now Mexico, the Aztecs (whichever ones were still alive) specifically remarked how pork tasted just like the human flesh that they used to eat.

P.S. Another factoid: the Aztecs also raised chiuauas for meat. So apparently they must be quite tasty. So next time you see a chiuaua, think of that succulent little morsel being spit-roasted like a lil' cornish hen :p
 
Maybe all this is part of the Cylon plan. Their Centurions start eating earthlings when they find earth.

There are many copies. And they have a plan. To eat you!!!!! :eek: ;) :D

Isn't it on CSI where they always use pigs to simulate impacts of trauma on human tissue because their muscle tissue is similar to ours?

Psssh, my tail is cuter though. :D
 
Reading this has actually made me feel quite ill, and I don't even eat meat.

What's all that about? :confused:
 
^^Shut up, you! Little do you know, but humans also taste like panda.


*licks lips*

I have reported you to the appropriate Chinese authorities.

Reading this has actually made me feel quite ill, and I don't even eat meat.

What's all that about? :confused:

Speaking of meat! For some reason when I see your avatar off to the side I always think that it's a cow (just the head) until I actually look at it... like... the baby penguin is the nose and the other penguins arm/head are the cows ears... weird.
 
Weird indeed :D :D

If I blur my eyes I can sort of make out a cartoonish animal head, but it's still a penguin and chick the rest of the time.

BTW, they had this report on the BBC this morning that one of the wildlife camera team filming Planet Earth had rescued a trapped penguin chick, and that loads of people had complained that the film crews should never interfere with nature, only observe it. How heartless can people be? Would they standby and watch two puppies in a sack drown? No.

I got all mad at the TV :D
 
How heartless can people be? Would they standby and watch two puppies in a sack drown?
Don't go putting ideas in the TV exec's heads. Some programme commissioner would probably see Celebrity Sealclubbing as a ratings winner...

What kind of sauce goes best with human?
It's a universally accepted fact that brown sauce is the condiment of choice for bacon butties, so I reckon it'd taste just as good in a person sarnie.
 
Don't go putting ideas in the TV exec's heads. Some programme commissioner would probably see Celebrity Sealclubbing as a ratings winner...
Brought to you by Birds Eye no doubt. After all, it's the seals that are depleting fish stocks :rolleyes:

It's a universally accepted fact that brown sauce is the condiment of choice for bacon butties, so I reckon it'd taste just as good in a person sarnie.
I'll wait for the Linda McCartney pretend version. Mmmmm, fake human :p

BTW, it does bring a new meaning to the word bushmeat :D
 
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