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Nepia

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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://agar.io/'>http://agar.io/</a>
 
Don't blame me if you get addicted.
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I have no idea WTF that is so managed to avoid addiction. :)

Tim

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">[b][url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11611086/Secret-files-reveal-police-feared-that-Trekkies-could-turn-on-society.html]Secret files reveal police feared that Trekkies could turn on society[/url][/b] 
Scotland Yard kept a secret dossier on Star Trek and the X-Files in the run up to the millennium amid security concerns 
By Elizabeth Roberts 
2:58PM BST 17 May 2015 <img src="http://i.imgur.com/RavAytv.jpg" alt="RavAytv.jpg"> 
For years Star Trek fans â€“ known as Trekkies â€“ have been the butt of jokes about their penchant for wearing pointy ears and attending science fiction conventions. 
But the police feared British fans of the cult American show might boldly go a little too far one day. 
It has emerged that Scotland Yard kept a secret dossier on Star Trek, The X-Files, and other US sci fi shows amid fears that British fans would go mad and kill themselves, turn against society or start a weird cult. 
The American TV shows Roswell and Dark Skies and the film The Lawnmower Man were also monitored to protect the country from rioting and cyber attacks. 
Special Branch was concerned that people hooked on such material could go into a frenzy triggered by the millennium leading to anarchy. 
An undated confidential report to the Metropolitan Police, thought to have been filed around 1998-99, listed concerns about conspiracy theorists who believed the end of the world was nigh. 
"Fuel is added to the fire by television dramas and feature films mostly produced in America," the report said. 
"These draw together the various strands of religion, UFOs, conspiracies, and mystic events and put them in an entertaining storyline.â€ 
It added: "Obviously this is not sinister in itself, what is of concern is the devotion certain groups and individuals ascribe to the contents of these programmes." 
The dossier â€“ called UFO New Religious Movements and the Millennium â€“ was drawn up in response to the 1997 mass suicide by 39 cultists in San Diego known as Heaven's Gate. The group members were "ardent followers of The X-Files and Star Trek" according to Special Branch. 
The secret briefing note was obtained from the Met under the Freedom of Information Act by Sheffield-based British X-Files expert Dr Dave Clarke while researching a new book, How UFOs Conquered the World. 
Dr Clarke, who teaches investigative journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, said: "The documents show the police and security services were concerned about the export of some new religious movements concerning UFOs and aliens from the USA in the aftermath of the mass suicide by followers of the Heaven's Gate. 
"It's no coincidence this occurred around 1997 â€“ which was the 50th anniversary of the birth of UFOs and the Roswell incident â€“ at a time when the net was buzzing with rumours about aliens and cover-ups.â€ 
A Met spokesman said: "We have no knowledge of this."</blockquote>

NTA

STOP. EVERYTHING.

Crucial

I hope those things are mega expensive or there will be chaos on the ski fields.

Paekakboyz

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I have no idea WTF that is so managed to avoid addiction. :)
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One of the lucky few!

mariner4life

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STOP. EVERYTHING.

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wow. that is unbelievably cool.

Crucial

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wow. that is unbelievably cool. 
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It is. Until fuckwits get their hands on them.
 
Imagine the outrage when someone decides to film themselves playing golf.
 
Wait until they are common and much smaller and every event you go to has some nob tossing one of these in the air. 'Look at me pulling dumb gang signs in the crowd at the rugby". Look at me paddleboarding" "look at me ...."
 
Still, I'd like to have a play with one.

antipodean

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Crucial" data-cid="491525" data-time="1432143605">I hope those things are mega expensive or there will be chaos on the ski fields.</blockquote>Certainly. My first thought after seeing it on the facetubes was "I must get that". It's certainly more of a proliferation of kids wearing gopros on the slopes. Fuck knows why too, they're not doing anything remotely worth capturing. From a personal perspective the only concern I have is skiing off piste or riding MTB they'd be about as good at avoiding trees as a stormtrooper on Endor. But for an introductory price of ~$500, that's a steal.

Crucial

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Certainly. My first thought after seeing it on the facetubes was "I must get that". It's certainly more of a proliferation of kids wearing gopros on the slopes. Fuck knows why too, they're not doing anything remotely worth capturing. 
From a personal perspective the only concern I have is skiing off piste or riding MTB they'd be about as good at avoiding trees as a stormtrooper on Endor. 
But for an introductory price of ~$500, that's a steal.
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In the FAQs I also noticed that their top speed isn't great, so if you hoon off too fast you will leave it behind.

antipodean

It's only got to keep up enough for the <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.facebook.com/TeAtatu/videos/vb.737694913/10152278732164914/?type=3&theater'>eventual accident or tumble</a>. The older I get the slower I go too. :)

antipodean

My brother caught this on news.com.au I guess they don't employ anyone to review comments.
 
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dogmeat

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STOP. EVERYTHING.

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Were on line for $200 this week on pre-order. Has no collision avoidance software but that's coming in v2. Know someone with one on way so keen to have a play

Chris B.

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wow. that is unbelievably cool. 
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It's a fucking selfie stick - without the stick - you piston wristed gibbon! :)

mariner4life

Look, I'm well aware of the narcissistic properties of the item. However, they are trumped by the cool shit. It fucking flies and follows you around. 
Yes, its main application will be fluffybunnies videoing themselves doing normal shit, and "epic" selfies, but right now it's essentially a flying robot, like the start of T2. 
And that's cool, you piston wristed gibbon

Chris B.

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It fucking flies and follows you around.
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So does a pet budgie!
 
I'm fucked if I know how they're doing it for $200 though! You'd have to think it's not going to work anywhere near as well as in that video.

mariner4life

yea, i am a firm believer in "you get what you pay for" and $200 is laughably cheap.
 
A fucking budgie isn't a fucking robot that could be mounted with weapons, it's a noisy bird for old people. Flying potential death machines = cool.

Chris B.

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yea, i am a firm believer in "you get what you pay for" and $200 is laughably cheap.
 
A fucking budgie isn't a fucking robot that could be mounted with weapons, it's a noisy bird for old people. Flying potential death machines = cool. 
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Tie a (small) stick of gelignite to it and light the fuse - see what happens. Actually, Barry Crump wrote a story about that, but it was a hawk and it circled back and flew into their hut.

Chris B.

Has anyone got one of those little robot vacuum cleaners? I'm assuming that if they were the miracle they look to be, I'd hear all my friends raving about them - but, they don't.

mariner4life

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">Tie a (small) stick of gelignite to it and light the fuse - see what happens. Actually, Barry Crump wrote a story about that, but it was a hawk and it circled back and flew into their hut.
 
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You're the reason double happies are banned you fucking sicko

Chris B.

When I was at high school, we went on a rugby trip to Geraldine and got billeted out. I got sent to this wealthy farming family out of town.
 
When we arrived at the place, their (fairly deaf and not surprising) father said, "Oh, are you going to fire the gun, boys?"
 
I thought we'd be going rabbit shooting, but these fuckers had bought an old artillery gun at an auction.
 
They welded a base on a piece of metal piping, filled it up with blasting powder, inserted a fuse, tamped it all down with dirt - stuck a bigger bit of metal piping over the top - shoved it all in the breech and lit the fuse.
 
We waited, with hands over ears.....................................................................then BOOM....WFFWHIP, WFFWHIP, WFFWHIP... as the metal piping spun through the air.
 
They reckoned it had a range of about a kilometre.
 
Not sure OSH would be too impressed about that as a school trip activity, these days!

The Silver Fern

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