Wall-E

10 responses to “Wall-E”

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   Dr DAD (Daniel A D’Auria MD)

   Sep 14, 2010 at 9:56 am

   Chairs give it some perspective. Perhaps a mirror mounted on a ball socket combo that can be moved. Better, a small video camera and a small flat screen. Either you are going to run out of space, or your clients are going to have to wait in the hall!

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   jurvetson

   Sep 14, 2010 at 6:19 pm

   With her long skirt, she looks like the oh-so-fetching ballroom dance robots of Japan…

   

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   jhagerty52

   Sep 14, 2010 at 8:17 pm

   So this is the one that didn’t blow a big enough crater into the dust?

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   Dr DAD (Daniel A D’Auria MD)

   Sep 15, 2010 at 12:08 am

   I like the face better on your descent engine than the one on the ballroom dance robot! Kind of frog like!
   

   or perhaps a Blue Sky Studio robot like….

   

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5. 

   solerena

   Sep 15, 2010 at 12:27 am

   She looks like a distant relative to Japanese dance robots:)
   PhotonQ’s Mr. Soleil could meet her: to dance or not to dance..
   Telle est la question !?! =)

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   Seldom Scene Photography

   Sep 15, 2010 at 1:39 am

   If you really want to "up-skirt" Wall-E, I don’t think you need a different mirror — just a bit more space between the mirror and bottom of the nozzle. Maybe get the mirror down a few inches off the floor and raise Wall-E another foot?

   Definitely impressive scale…

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7. 

   nhr

   Sep 16, 2010 at 7:29 am

   Shall we dance ?

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   jurvetson

   Sep 17, 2010 at 6:50 am

   yes, a short-circuit skort…. Dr. D – I thought I saw a robot like this in Robots with a rigid skirt going to the ground, but it must have been some Japanese bot in Robosapiens

   P.S. The plaque on the left
   

   and a peek up the ablative skirt
   

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9. 

   Pieces of Eye

   Sep 19, 2010 at 5:01 am

   hmmm… angled mirrors and frosted glass to image the projection… just a thought 🙂

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10. 

    jurvetson

    Mar 20, 2012 at 4:24 pm

    I recently learned that during Apollo 9, they had the first test of the Lunar Module Descent Engine in space, and Rusty thought it might be noisy. So they trained with hand signals just in case the noise in the LM cabin was too loud. When they hit the switch, there was total silence, and for a moment, they had to check the instruments to verify that it was operating properly (and it was).

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