Show Notes for TWS048: Robot slaver or saviours? Either way, they’re comin’.

While there are stories about robots, enough of today’s show revolves around the water to make me question the return of the Deep Ones, or Cthulhu finally breaking free from his prison in the sunken city of R’lyeh…

• Theme Song: Hyper Lounge by Scott Helm from The Podsafe Music Network
• Opening quote from The Blair Witch Project.
• Impossibilistically Speaking!
  • He should have been one of the foremost scientists of the time. – Wikipedia: NIkola Tesla’s Birthday
  • Throws a monkey wrench into that whole ‘born free’ philosophy, don’t it? – Belfast Telegraph: Irish firm’s display of ‘free-energy’ machine delayed
  • “And yea, there was a whirring sound, and the new prophets did stride upon the waters…” – PhysOrg: Robot walks on water
  • Anyone else reminded of the four-ass monkey? Or is this the result of some UFO research we don’t officially know about? – New Scientist: Three-armed robot to work on space station
  • I used to skip rocks across the river when I was a kid, so I know this works.. – New Scientist: Wave-skimming plane developed in China
  • The instinct involved is called the “ow, I don’t want to fall over again” instinct.. – New Scientist: Animal-like ‘instinct’ keeps robot marching
  • EXTRA: Be on the watch: this may be part of Doctor Steel‘s ingenious plans.. – Ananova: The robots are coming…
• Sound Medley #1: Lost in Space, War Games, Wizard of Oz, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Eurotrip, Get Smart, Red Dwarf and Soylent Green
• A Balanced Apocalpytic Moment
  • “To every theme song, change, change, change…” Oh, wait; no one knows that song reference anymore.. – Ananova: Pop songs threaten nursery rhymes
  • No word on whether he get teased because of the horns, the blood red skin, the tail or the rock hand.. – CBS/AP: Catholic School Opens Gates To Hell Boy
  • Time to go fishin’! It’s like they say, when life gives ya worms… – WAFB: Worms Fall from the Sky in Jennings
  • A ray of hope for a dying world: at least we know what *not* to blame.. – New Scientist: Sun’s activity rules out link to global warming
  • Finally, a totalitarian judgement I can almost totally support! – Metro: North Korea in karaoke clampdown
  • How many livers does one plant produce? Oh! Organ*ic* farming!? My bad.. – New Scientist: Organic farming could feed the world
• Sound Medley #2: Batman, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, A Fish Called Wanda, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Casablanca, Airplan, Kids In The Hall, Charlie Brown
• Revenge of the Giant Things!
  • SEE the amazing 8-LEGGED OCTOSQUID! – Hawaii Tribune Herald: Scientists all agog at ‘octosquid’
  • SMELL the stanked-up GIANT MARAUDER OF THE SEA! – ABC Australia: Giant squid washed up in Tasmania
  • DODGE the INVADING JELLY HORDES! – New Scientist: Jellyfish swarms threaten Mediterranean beach bums
  • EXTRA: HEAR abou the courageous BATTLE OF THE CRUSTACEAN MENACE! – BBC: Diver in lobster wrestling match
  • COWER in FEAR before the HUMUNGOUS PUPPY! – Metro: Is Samson the tallest dog in the world?
  • SCREAM in TERROR before the GIGANTIC CANINE! – Metro: Here’s Tiny – the 7ft 3in dog
  • WINCE in sympathetic PAIN NO MORE! – New Scientist: Dog contraceptive signals end to castration
  • WONDER at the restorative powers oF an EXTINCT PREDATOR FIEND! – Cosmos: Dingo may save Australian wildlife
  • RUN in PANIC at the sound of the RAKING CLAWS OF SHARPNESS! – The Daily Telegraph Australia/Agence France Press: Giant badgers terrorise Iraqi port city
  • AMAZE at the ANCIENT WONDER PRESERVED! – BBC: Baby mammoth discovery unveiled
  • IMAGINE the INSTANTANEOUS FREEZING PERIL! – Cryptomundo: Flash Frozen? Siberian Baby Raises Old Questions
• Sound Medley #3: Joey, Back To The Future III, The Incredible Hulk (TV), Ice Age, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, A Christmas Carol
• The rest of the best
  • I want the suit with the flight capabilities.. – Sunday Herald: Holy batcapes! The age of the superhero suit is upon us
  • Uh.. not *these* flight capabilities.. And can more than one person win the Darwin award for the same act, or is it just a “class action win” at that point? – CNN/AP: Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair
  • When you are used to being watched, you stop caring about being watched. Then, they have you. – Ananova: Road with 100 cameras plagued by crime
  • The opposite of laundering money? – Metro: Mystery deposits left in toilets
  • EXTRA: Some people are really bad at spelling. One more time: *ghosts* go *BOO*, cows just go *MOO*! – Ananova: Girls rescued from scary cows
  • EXTRA: Mi-go? – The Scotsman: Images of Saturn’s tiny moon reveal the bizarre sponge that’s floating in outer space
  • EXTRA: Sounds like primal real estate, to me.. – Newsday: Feds trying to sell lighthouse with ghostly past
  • EXTRA: Reincarnation or Imagination? Either way, it looks good to me.. – Sify News: I died in space shuttle crash, says UP girl
  • EXTRA: Ever forget a bad memory? Are you sure? After all, you don’t remember it… – New Scientist: Scans reveal how we suppress traumatic memories
  • EXTRA: Ah, another folk legend is born.. – New Scientist: Listening to MP3s in a storm could blow your mind
  • EXTRA: Someone gave him advice: always make sure you have the right branch when robbing a bank. – FOX News: Man Disguised as Tree Robs New Hampshire Bank
  • EXTRA: Fashion police? – BBC: US woman arrested over dry lawn
  • EXTRA: God unavailable for comment. – Ananova: Prosecutors cannot find God

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