Another disappointing headline
"Germans Build World's Largest Robot"
Those very words can inspire fear and awe. I read that headline and imagined some 100-foot tall Teutonic automaton, stomping through the streets of Essen while firing missiles at terrified motorists. Armed militia move in to stop the robot, but it fires a deadly heat ray that melts the tanks and sets soldiers ablaze. And as the rampage continues, it blasts David Hasselhoff music from the gigantic speakers embedded in its torso.
But no. It's just a freakin' 4-meter tall arm. It can lift about 450 pounds. Big deal. It's bolted in place so it can't even go anywhere, let alone rain down fiery death and destruction. Germany, what happened to you? How could you let us down like this? This is so terribly disappointing I want to cry.
I mean, seriously, when I saw that headline I thought it would be about something that looks like this:
Those very words can inspire fear and awe. I read that headline and imagined some 100-foot tall Teutonic automaton, stomping through the streets of Essen while firing missiles at terrified motorists. Armed militia move in to stop the robot, but it fires a deadly heat ray that melts the tanks and sets soldiers ablaze. And as the rampage continues, it blasts David Hasselhoff music from the gigantic speakers embedded in its torso.
But no. It's just a freakin' 4-meter tall arm. It can lift about 450 pounds. Big deal. It's bolted in place so it can't even go anywhere, let alone rain down fiery death and destruction. Germany, what happened to you? How could you let us down like this? This is so terribly disappointing I want to cry.
I mean, seriously, when I saw that headline I thought it would be about something that looks like this: