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Whatever happened to all the people that bought the Boring Company flamethrower?
They’d be a good customer base for this, but strangely I never hear how they’re getting on now
Were you expecting weekly updates?
I was at least expecting them to be publicly humiliated
Considering it was a Musk product, it probably fell apart in their hands the first time they tried to pull the trigger. If it didn’t explode in their faces.
Israeli Military have entered the chat.
You might be obligated to call it a “hell-hound”, though…
“Oh shit, heck hounds!”
My person!
What possible use case is there for this that isn’t a felony of some description?
Employees trying to unionize.
At least it seems like that sort of thing never ends up being a felony…
West bank.
I say that, but I, in no way, want that to happen.
But yeah, Boston Dynamic have long said that they don’t want their robots weaponised, but here we are seeing it happen.
Boston Dynamics has made multiple robots for DARPA. If they make a really great platform, I expect they’re probably gonna be weaponized at some point. Maybe not by them, but…
I remember a buddy of mine who was working on an autonomous, self-mapping rover research project at his university on a DARPA project. He was just working on the navigation side, part of a larger project. He was telling me how he had a “huh” moment when they got the first control unit and it had a big red button on it labelled “weapon”.
Gonna assume controlled burns in difficult terrain.
Also the reason that flamethrowers aren’t illegal in most states, since being able to project flame makes controlled burns a lot easier.
I thought they use those fire paintball marker things
How else am I gonna light the fireplace without getting up from the couch?
Roofing
Seems perfect for mole problems.
Deer hunting. Don’t think, just buy one and do it. It’s the American way.
get a nice char on them fuckers while they twitchin
Don’t even bother shooting them, just use the flamethrower for everything. There may be collateral damage but it’s worth it.
Bored on a weeknight
I don’t know if I’d ever be bored if I had a Wee Knight to ride.
You should really get the full size, mine tires out too quickly
Rapid heating of slabs of meat for some weird meat effect rich people pay for
They are not actually that expensive. You just feel posh when you use one.
My girlfriend came with one, it’s great for grilled cheese. But I’m not allowed to use it anymore because I set fire to a chocolate bar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butane_torch
Culinary
Butane torches are frequently employed as kitchen gadgets to caramelize sugar in cooking, such as when making crème brûlée. They may be marketed as kitchen torches, cooking torches, or culinary torches. Use of the butane torch in the kitchen is not limited to caramelizing sugar; it can be used to melt or brown toppings on casseroles or soups, to melt cheese, and to roast or char vegetables such as peppers.
Fuck up the rabbits that eat my flowers and leave a monolayer of rabbit shit on my property?
Have you considered a regular dog that doesn’t shoot flames? Our non-flamethrowing dog does a very good job taking care of the rabbits she can’t chase away.
Probably leaves a monolayer of dog shit, though. Now, a flamethrower robo-dog, there’s the dog of the future.
suprised this wasn’t elon musk
This is a great day! I think we can ALL agree that it’s been deeply frustrating to be priced out of the flame throwing robot dog market for so long.
This is an absolute W for flamethrowing robot dog enthusiasts everywhere.
I’m waiting for more competition to enter the market and for prices to be driven down further.
Owning is boring. You want to rent one through my new app. FRaaS. Flamethrower robot as a service. I am starting the first round of venturing funding at 1 billion. It also has block chain in it.
You’re joking, but some tech bro is gonna try to do exactly that
It also has block chain in it.
The key is to use 100x more electricity than is actually needed.
You were paying the market rate for your flamethrowing robot dog? Dude, buy refurbished.
So how much for a shark with a frickin’ laser beam attached to its head?
I’d settle for some ill-tempered sea bass.
Also: Which 2 states are the sane ones where this would be illegal?
Screw those states, flamethrowers are awesome and I want to see more of them.
Because, Awesome!
Completely useless for firefighting. Putting a drip torch on its ass and letting it walk a line, maybe. But it’s not going to cut down the trees to make a firebreak, who what’s the point.
It’s for fighting on the side of fire
When we said give the people what they want, we got this, and we do.
lol wat. why?
I’ll take “good ideas” for 1000.
Agricultural management that is, torching ant hives and wasp nests, are the most common civilian purpose for flamethrowers. And given I’m allergic to some kinds of stings, I’d be glad for a robot dog to manage my wasps for me.
But I don’t have a farm, nor $10K to spend on a dogbot.
nor $10K to spend on a dogbot.
We can hope that someone with an entreprenurial spirit will start up a business renting flamethrower robo-dogs for people who only need them sporadically.
Can I use it to light up my noisy neighbor house?
Yes. Legally? Probably not
Will let the lawyers decide that, point is it would work.
No problem, I will left the robot to burn there too, no traces… perfect plan… I just need to spend 10k to get rid of that noisy MF…
I’d imagine that it’d depend upon the materials from which the house is constructed.
thanks i needed this
“Flame-throwing robot dogs don’t kill people, people kill people”