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What happens if you put two of them in the room? |
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//throws everything out the window// |
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This isn't (strictly speaking) defenestration, which only
pertains to the throwing of people from windows. |
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Even more strictly speaking, oh yes it is. |
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Fenestra : window
De : down and away |
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There's nothing there to exclude inanimate objects. If there were
then, by attaching an etymological filter to a primarily kinetic
apparatus, one could construct a violent alternative to the Turing
test. |
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"Can it be defenestrated? Let's find out." |
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"Yes. Congratulations, you ... oh, never mind." |
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But there's a high probability that the robot sees itself at some point during this process and then proceeds to throw itself out of the window (or through the window, if it's a transfenestration-bot), leaving the job half done. |
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I suppose we must also address its impulse to throw the
window out of the window. |
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Another risk is that, having thrown itself out of the window, it may just carry on collecting things and throwing them through the window, and thus attempt to throw the contents of the entire universe outside the window into the room. |
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As the Voice of Reason here, by simply programming in
"except for toasters", the problem is solved. |
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See "Psychedelic toasters fool image recognition"
link. |
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NB I printed out the image - then I could not find it.
Either A) I lost it or B) I put the print in the kitchen,
and so perfectly camouflaged. |
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Isn't this simply what rock musicians are already notorious for ? TVs through windows, cars in swimming pools, damaged plumbing fixtures ? |
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In the past, yes. But thanks to file sharing, they can't afford it any
more. Whereat my schadenfreude knows no bounds. |
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Wise hoteliers will purchase a refenestration 'bot, which will
catch TVs on their way down to the swimming pool and throw
them back into the room. |
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Determined rock musicians will buy a defenestration 'bot
which will throw TV's out the window to the refenestration
'bot plug it into their hotel rooms power outlet then sit
poolside sipping margaritas & giggling as they watch the hotels
electricity bill climb. |
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Ok, say you have an infinity mirror (two partially mirrored
planes with a light between them) with a few drops of
water in it. Where the water forms condensation droplets
the infinity mirror stops looking infinite and that part looks,
sort of, defenestrated, and non-infinity like. Have a laser
heat the droplets so they reposition sometimes. You get
the appearance of defenestration without the messy and
potentially controversial pile of junk outside the window. |
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I'd just like a plain old fenestration bot, to liven up the place with bric-a-brac which comes from nowhere else on earth. |
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Maybe [Flying Toaster's] idea is not quite what it appears to be. It's DeFENStration 'bot: please see link. |
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I can spell, you know. I just can't type. |
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I can't spell while I type, I can spell (better anyway) while I
read, a strange
condition, there may be a paper in there somewhere. |
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Is it programmed to start with the smallest objects in the
room and work it's way up in size? Because I'm imagining
the robot starting with the 7-ft steel desk in the room, and
burning out its gears trying in vain to force it through a too-
small window. |
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The robot works its way through whatever is closest at hand/claw and can't move away fast enough. |
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Also, by default the device will close the window first, then launch a sufficiently heavy object through it. Read the appendix in the manual concerning dip switches : it can be programmed to leave too-bulky items, or wedge them into the window opening at the end. |
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Scenario 1: No windows, but a serving hatch. |
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Scenario 2: Three windows - one square, one round and one
arched. |
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