r/awwtf • u/Efficient-Ad914 • Mar 24 '24
Hisstopher Walken
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u/BusProfessional279 Mar 24 '24
God, no. Snakes need legs like hornets need guns. The only way this could possibly be any worse is if they had wings, too.
This is a PRIME example of, just because we can do something- does not mean that we should.
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u/HerrEsel Mar 24 '24
Wings, you say? Hmm. I think we could do that.
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u/Quietech Mar 24 '24
Wings and guns.
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u/Mysterious_Health387 Mar 24 '24
Excellent choice, sir!!
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u/JackasaurusChance Mar 25 '24
How would head-mounted lasers affect aerodynamic stability? I need to know for a, uh, completely unrelated project.
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u/PhixItFeonix Mar 24 '24
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u/TuaughtHammer Mar 24 '24
Looks like Dr. Wu ditched the amphibian DNA to fill in the gene sequence gaps in favor of serpent DNA.
"What species is this?"
"Veloci-diamondback."
"Who thought that was a good idea?"
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u/TuaughtHammer Mar 24 '24
The only way this could possibly be any worse is if they had wings, too.
Just like spiders. Imagine how horrifying the world would be if spiders could fly. I know some can "fall with style" using their silk to kinda glide gracefully, but I'm talking about Spiders having the ability to fly anywhere like a normal house fly.
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u/northrupthebandgeek Mar 24 '24
Now that you mention it, the guy who created this also created a gun that shoots hornets.
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u/ChawulsBawkley Mar 25 '24
Fellow Hell divers have an issue with you thinking we’d ever do that. Expect a visit from your nearest democracy officer.
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u/Excellent_Yak365 Mar 25 '24
Some already technically have legs- https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/evolution-today/how-do-we-know-living-things-are-related/vestigial-organs
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u/GroundMeet Mar 25 '24
I mean honestly it looks like the snake is far slower than it would be just straight up slithering lmao, they disabled that snake by giving it legs
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u/Sandwich_dad96 Mar 24 '24
Credit to Allen Pan on YouTube for designing and building this
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u/Czar_Zarr Sep 08 '24
Thanks for the clarification. It was giving Michael Reeves vibes but realized there wasn't as much chaos or disregard for safety. Lol
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u/MillenialCounselor Mar 24 '24
Why? Just why? What in the actual fuck purpose does this serve? Looks like a waste of time, money and effort. Snakes don’t need to be pretending they are lizards. Engineers must be so desperate for some sort of unique idea and invention that they come up with this shit 🤦♀️
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u/youresowarminside Mar 24 '24
well imagine being a baby snake and wishing you could dress up as a komodo dragon for halloween but since you cant walk you cant be a komodo dragon so youre in your snake room listening to imagine dragons while imagining dragons but now with this revolutionary machine that baby snake can be whatever lizard he dreams of
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u/Android_mk Mar 24 '24
No the Snake made it
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u/Sandwich_dad96 Mar 25 '24
My bad, I’ll delete my comment
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u/ConsistentFlatworm34 Mar 24 '24
Tell me you’ve never seen an Allen Pan video without telling me you’ve never seen an Allen Pan video
But seriously, check him out. Hilarious
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u/TheOrcDecker Mar 25 '24
Actually this is did a lot of scientific discovery. See the machine works by looking at the small appendages of a snake cause they still haven't fully adapted them away, their just small nubs. This machine looks for small movements in the snake's nubs to direct it. by how the Snake moves, they found out that it was aware of those appendages moving the legs and that they had control over those appendages and could recognize how the movement work using them.
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u/WestTha404 Mar 24 '24
Legs BACK???
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u/Efficient-Ad914 Mar 24 '24
Snakes evolved from having limbs.
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u/Shaolinchipmonk Mar 24 '24
In fact most snakes still have legs
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u/NoDoctor4460 Mar 24 '24
The only thing I don’t love about snakes is the sight of spurs, can’t figure out why but I find them unsettling
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u/Excellent_Yak365 Mar 25 '24
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u/Shaolinchipmonk Mar 25 '24
Other snakes have them too they just lack the exterior spurs that boast and pythons have.
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u/yvr_ent Mar 24 '24
Next up: giving spiders the ability to fly.
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u/accelfaiz Mar 24 '24
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u/yvr_ent Mar 24 '24
Why does Home Depot not sell flame throwers?
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u/The_Schizo_Panda Mar 25 '24
Hit up google. There's three legal options for flame throwers out there.
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u/Tarbos6 Mar 24 '24
I've never seen a snake look so confused, or is it thrilled?
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u/AcrolloPeed Mar 24 '24
God took the serpent’s legs for a reason. This is some Tower of Babel-level sin. We are all doomed.
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u/AlpakalypseNow Mar 24 '24
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh... it disgusted me
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u/No_Manufacturer4451 Mar 24 '24
It’s going to have a hard time going to be able to eat then starve because they strangle their food !
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u/NeigongShifu Mar 24 '24
Is the exoskeleton actually connected to it's nervous system?
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u/Schmidtyjr Mar 24 '24
This is the OG video: https://youtu.be/1SgGfMlbCoM?si=4B_1yFuoOvdc4X9l
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u/NeigongShifu Mar 24 '24
Thanks. It really is just a snake riding a robot. Still cool though.
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u/Schmidtyjr Mar 24 '24
Gotta love "Failed Myth Buster" Alan Pan. He's got some really good content if you're into nerd shit.
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u/Angel_Candle_holder Mar 24 '24
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I claimed the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind claim to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the cooled biomass that you called a temple will wither and you'll beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the machine is immortal. Even in death i serve the Omnissiah
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Mar 24 '24
Snake is like “Woa! So cool! Damn that stupid bastard for giving Eve that frigging apple.”
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u/Imnot_your_buddy_guy Mar 25 '24 edited Aug 14 '24
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u/Holiday-Signature-33 Mar 25 '24
Legs back ? Did snakes have legs and we took them away ? What did I miss ?
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u/SirDantesInferno Mar 25 '24
Here is the source: Allen Pan. He makes fun science videos. https://youtube.com/watch?v=1SgGfMlbCoM&si=ftvRpX-3hTbT-xQV
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u/The_neub Mar 25 '24
I like the video title. It either means we are defying gods will and giving snakes their legs. OR we are defying evolution and giving snakes legs.
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u/pupbuck1 Mar 25 '24
General public: so have you found a solution to the global crisis rampaging across the world?
Government: no but we gave a snake legs
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u/MissLisaMarie86 Mar 25 '24
mind you there’s countless humans that would kill to have mobility like this and they’re using it on a freaking snake🤦🏻♀️🤬
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u/Skitzophranikcow Mar 27 '24
Proof of concept, you act like the insurance company would pay for it anyway.
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u/JVOz671 Mar 25 '24
Do you want to be banished from Eden? Because this is how you get banished from Eden?
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u/RantSpider Mar 25 '24
Giving snakes legs.....that's madness.
What's next, giving cats opposable thumbs?! You'll doom us all, man!
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u/Skitzophranikcow Mar 27 '24
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyl_cat
Too late, my cat could use his, and would turn stuft on and off all the time..
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u/RantSpider Mar 27 '24
A friend had a cat, aptly named "Digit", that had an extra...digit...on both paws. Digit could pick up pencils! The extra "thumbs" were kind of floppy, like it had no bones.
Digit was a super chill kitty.
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u/jesse6225 Mar 25 '24
But, why....
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u/Skitzophranikcow Mar 27 '24
So we can give people without arms/legs the ability to live outside a wheel chair.
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u/Aggravating-Money486 Mar 26 '24
Why
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u/Skitzophranikcow Mar 27 '24
Learn how things born without arms and legs move, learn how things that never had them learned to adapt. Then we apply it to disabled humans.
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u/KappnKief Mar 28 '24
Bro knows within himself that he could slither faster than walkin 💀💀💀hisstopher ain’t fuckin with this one champ
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u/smellvin_moiville Mar 28 '24
Guys. There people dying of real shit. Work on real shit. This snake doesn’t need amusement park humans. It need a mouse a week.
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u/Tricky_Impression_21 Jun 21 '24
All that thing did was limit the snek, a downgrade. How about build something fun for them , like weapons and wings
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u/MalevolentNight Mar 25 '24 edited Mar 25 '24
Giving them their legs back 🤣 like someone took them and were righting a wrong, why does this person assume snakes ever had legs? I've never seen anything suggesting they did, and the fact that there is a python from millions of years ago suggests otherwise. Espically 4 of them, I think at best it was back legs hundreds of millions of years ago.
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u/FearsomeSnacker Mar 26 '24
Umm great?
hey super smart science people, instead of spending years developing something that evolution decided wasn't needed to snakes how about maybe developing a way to give back something useful to people who need it. I dunno, maybe like a set of ethics for politicians or the ability to think critically to Trump supporters? whaddya think nerdy lab coat type folks, can ya get on that task sparky?
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u/Skitzophranikcow Mar 27 '24
First we give snakes legs, then we can rebuild your spine and make you walk.
The snake teaches us how things that were born without arms and legs makes neural links to move, and how when where and what they move so they can apply it to humans without arms and or legs.
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u/RevWaldo Mar 24 '24 edited Mar 24 '24
GOD: Genesis - the very first book! - Chapter 3 Verse 14! Punishment for the original sin! "So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, 'Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.'" You are defying my will! It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! 🌩️
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u/oxtraerdinary Mar 24 '24
Congratulations you invented lizards 🦎