This is the province of geckos and spiders for a reason,silly hominids...

While noisy and not very stealthy, it did work successfully.

Meh... it was done with trick photography.

What did you expect out of Utah? They have decades of experience in sucking.

AirForceVet: While noisy and not very stealthy, it did work successfully.

pffttt that's just the prototype. Wait for the production model.

redesigning equipment MythBusters built in two days..... while it worked better, i'm not really that impressed.

AirForceVet: While noisy and not very stealthy, it did work successfully.

I was going to suggest it might be useful for firemen, but then I realised there'd be no room for them to carry a breathing apparatus and anyway, they use ladders.

I, for one, welcome our carpet cleaning ninja overlords.

He had to stop at the top to get someone to pull him up the rest of the way.
Not impressed!

spidermormon,

No one else thinking of the joy that would come from killing the power to the vacs halfway up and hearing the screams from the guy as he fell backwards???

/fell all of maybe 3-4 feet since he had a safety rope but still... you know he's scream, followed by a distant roar of 'NERRrRRrRDS!' from the frat house down the block.

Tsar_Bomba1: Meh... it was done with trick photography.

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You have ruined my childhood. :'(

SnarfVader: What did you expect out of Utah? They have decades of experience in sucking.

Not all of them. Just the bishops' daughters. ;)

A bit awkward going over the top

Science!

I was wondering where the JLO fan to my Chaparral 2J went.

roadkillontheweb: He had to stop at the top to get someone to pull him up the rest of the way.
Not impressed!

Yeah, this.

So all I need to be spiderman is a couple of shopvac's?

It's cute when people don't understand what engineering is.

Hmmm, Wall cleaners... Cleaning walls.... vacuuming walls... sucking the crap out of walls...

They should combine that technology with the whole ground-coffee-in-a-balloong grasping device from the robotics video a few days ago to have a really awesome climbing device. Heck, they could just make an awesome climbing robot and do away with the whole person thing.

That really sucked.

AbiNormal: So all I need to be spiderman is a couple of shopvac's?

Your English skills aren't likely to take you far, so may as well give it a shot.

I saw an earlier headline about this and didn't think much of it. I assumed that it could be used to climb the glass of a curtain wall, which is old news. To see him climb a brick wall was actually pretty impressive.

Finally! A roomba for vertical surfaces. God bless you, USU engineering students!

Obviously, you haters are going to blindly hate.

What about buildings with carpeted windows?

howdoibegin: It's cute when people don't understand what engineering is.

HA!!

howdoibegin: It's cute when people don't understand what engineering is.

Seriously. I watched the whole video and NOT ONE TRAIN!

Consuela does not approve.

Meanwhile, at the University of Id, engineers are developing hot oil.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: AbiNormal: So all I need to be spiderman is a couple of shopvac's?

Your English skills aren't likely to take you far, so may as well give it a shot.

Well consider me burned...................or not.

AbiNormal: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: AbiNormal: So all I need to be spiderman is a couple of shopvac's?

Your English skills aren't likely to take you far, so may as well give it a shot.

Well consider me burned...................or not.

Nah, dude, you're burned. Those liberal art kids make a living keeping us tech types grammatically honest. So yeah, sorry man, you're basically a homo. If it makes you feel any better, being a homo is "in" now ... in the back door ... NYUK! NYUK! NYUK!

Is being a faux linquistic prescriptivist hate speech? Let's find out.

It works with golden plates.

MJMaloney187: AbiNormal: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: AbiNormal: So all I need to be spiderman is a couple of shopvac's?

Your English skills aren't likely to take you far, so may as well give it a shot.

Well consider me burned...................or not.

Nah, dude, you're burned. Those liberal art kids make a living keeping us tech types grammatically honest. So yeah, sorry man, you're basically a homo. If it makes you feel any better, being a homo is "in" now ... in the back door ... NYUK! NYUK! NYUK!

Is being a faux linquistic prescriptivist hate speech? Let's find out.

Aww man! I don't want to be "in". I want to be the loner loser I always was.

How is he getting any kind of leverage there? He's holding those things out at arm's length.

His shoes seem to have some sort of strange plastic thing on them. Is that how he's actually getting vertical movement on the building?

AverageAmericanGuy: How is he getting any kind of leverage there? He's holding those things out at arm's length.

His shoes seem to have some sort of strange plastic thing on them. Is that how he's actually getting vertical movement on the building?

It looked like the foot rig was held to the suction rig by a cable.

/no idea if magic underwear can be cleaned after the pucker factor that stunt produced

MJMaloney187: AbiNormal: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: AbiNormal: So all I need to be spiderman is a couple of shopvac's?

Your English skills aren't likely to take you far, so may as well give it a shot.

Well consider me burned...................or not.

Nah, dude, you're burned. Those liberal art kids make a living keeping us tech types grammatically honest. So yeah, sorry man, you're basically a homo. If it makes you feel any better, being a homo is "in" now ... in the back door ... NYUK! NYUK! NYUK!

Is being a faux linquistic prescriptivist hate speech? Let's find out.

You'd seem a lot cleverer if you had a greenlight or two. Just sayin'.

AbiNormal: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: AbiNormal: So all I need to be spiderman is a couple of shopvac's?

Your English skills aren't likely to take you far, so may as well give it a shot.

Well consider me burned...................or not.

Well, I meant it as gentle chiding, not a burn, but take it as you will. Perhaps it's the embarrassment factor that makes it seems worse?

It's the apostrophe thing. It's one item of an actually pretty short list of writing mistakes that don't fall under Didn't Pick That Up in School (because they don't teach it) or Heard It On the Street (because it's specifically a writing error), but instead under I Learned Better But Trusted Idiots Online Instead. And it's not dialectical, either, like "aint'" or "gonna" or such, so not dismissable on those grounds either. It's one of the few things in writing that's Just Plain Wrong.



You're a smart person. You can do better. And you should, because then you'll come across as smart as you really are. Whether you do or not is up to you, and doesn't affect me, but I thought you'd want to know for your own sake.

Whoa, I just reread that, and it comes across as pretty pompous. I did *not* mean it to sound like that, honest!

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Whoa, I just reread that, and it comes across as pretty pompous. I did *not* mean it to sound like that, honest!

Sure ;-P

well... it certainly does suck.

"IT'S WHISPER QUIET!"

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: MJMaloney187: AbiNormal: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: AbiNormal: So all I need to be spiderman is a couple of shopvac's?

Your English skills aren't likely to take you far, so may as well give it a shot.

Well consider me burned...................or not.

Nah, dude, you're burned. Those liberal art kids make a living keeping us tech types grammatically honest. So yeah, sorry man, you're basically a homo. If it makes you feel any better, being a homo is "in" now ... in the back door ... NYUK! NYUK! NYUK!

Is being a faux linquistic prescriptivist hate speech? Let's find out.

You'd seem a lot cleverer if you had a greenlight or two. Just sayin'.


forecastle = foc'sle ... and not because Simon & Schuster (why am I not surprised "Schuster" has a red underline - most people don't get irony, but I digress) says so, but because formatting dictates design. But you write like a goth girl ... so whatever.



Aw, hells bells, now I've gone and pickle-tickled the Wiccan (Wiccan ... red underlined? A quantum of redemption? ... nope) gods. Ok, Total Farker with the word "snatch" in your handle ... what the hell is a greenlight?

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Whoa, I just reread that, and it comes across as pretty pompous. I did *not* mean it to sound like that, honest!

Maybe if you had a fewer greenlights you wouldn't feel empowered to be colossal gaping dill-hole? ;)

And maybe if I proofread my posts before hitting "submit" I wouldn't come off as a sniveling twatwaffle? But I doubt it.

MJMaloney187: what the hell is a greenlight?

a witty headline submitted to the fark gods for their approval... and they approve it!!!... also shows up in your profile as 'submitted links approved'... aka 'greenlights'...

Sofa King Smart: MJMaloney187: what the hell is a greenlight?

a witty headline submitted to the fark gods for their approval... and they approve it!!!... also shows up in your profile as 'submitted links approved'... aka 'greenlights'...

Hey, I'm grateful you patiently explained that to me. Most of the people I meet on the Interweb are cock-sucking douche bags.

Does a liberal interpretation of standard hyphen conventions constitute hate speech? Let's find out.



Here is the very first published definition of the Bruce Foss theorem:

"For someone with nothing to do, why do I feel so overwhelmed?" - in response to a clarification of a detail that does not involve drinking or cutting wood.

Your welcome. ... ??

MJMaloney187: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: MJMaloney187: AbiNormal: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: AbiNormal: So all I need to be spiderman is a couple of shopvac's?

Your English skills aren't likely to take you far, so may as well give it a shot.

Well consider me burned...................or not.

Nah, dude, you're burned. Those liberal art kids make a living keeping us tech types grammatically honest. So yeah, sorry man, you're basically a homo. If it makes you feel any better, being a homo is "in" now ... in the back door ... NYUK! NYUK! NYUK!

Is being a faux linquistic prescriptivist hate speech? Let's find out.

You'd seem a lot cleverer if you had a greenlight or two. Just sayin'.


forecastle = foc'sle ... and not because Simon & Schuster (why am I not surprised "Schuster" has a red underline - most people don't get irony, but I digress) says so, but because formatting dictates design. But you write like a goth girl ... so whatever.



Aw, hells bells, now I've gone and pickle-tickled the Wiccan (Wiccan ... red underlined? A quantum of redemption? ... nope) gods. Ok, Total Farker with the word "snatch" in your handle ... what the hell is a greenlight?

Dude, are you having a stroke or something?

If you've ever strapped shop vacs on your back ...

... You might be a redneck.

MJMaloney187: Hey, I'm grateful you patiently explained that to me. Most of the people I meet on the Interweb are cock-sucking douche bags.

Fark has its moments... but for the most part... undesirables are quickly identified as such and shunned by the mainstream farkers. There are a few undesirables that hang around but usually they have secondary traits that cause the rest of fark to overlook their 'quirks'... like an extensive collection of bikini/boobs candid photographs and/or the ability to drink to excess and still be somewhat likable at fark parties. fark-ged in law, computer hacking skills, ninja skills, large collection of guns, brush with famous person (held in high esteem by nerds/geeks)...