Wednesday, March 30, 2005

The Salvation of Humanity

That Buck Rogers Stuff

With the Ministry’s attention focussed on dorks and geek behavior, it is absolutely crucial that as a couterbalance you read this awe-inspiring story about four high school kids from Phoenix - who also happen to be undocument Mexican immigrants - built an underwater robot that beat all comers in a college-level robotics competition. MIT can go suck gravel.

After reading the story, if it’s in your idiom to do so please consider donating to their college fund. Since they and their parents entered the country illegally, they can’t get state or federal financial aid and their families are next to broke besides, and I gotta say it would be a damn waste if a kid who taught himself enough about engineering to beat the cream of Cambridge ends up hanging sheetrock for the rest of his life.

Moreover, these four have demonstrated a stunning ability to understand and more importantly control robots. Do I need to remind our readers that control is the last defense humanity has against the coming robot revolution? They must be made able to man the barricades!

Link via boingboing.


Posted by Johno on 03/30/05 at 01:08 PM
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