Re: OT Forget rocket engines...and also walls and wounded animals



OM wrote:
...Well, now we know what they did with "Rover" after The Village was
shut down in 1969!

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Did you ever read what happened to the original "Rover"?
They spent a fortune on developing this amphibious radio-controlled thing that looked like a cylindrical swimming pool with a checkered parasol on its top*... that sank the first time they sent it out to sea...so the new "Rover" (a weather balloon full of CO2) replaced it as a desperation move at the last moment.
And worked great!
What the HELL was that thing supposed to be? A robot? A giant roaring Amoeba?
Whatever it was, it was completely unforgettable when I saw the show as a kid...particularly the way it suffocated people by sitting on their faces and sucking them inside of it: http://www.acbm.com/concours/prisoner/images/rover/etouff.jpg
That was _really_ scary.
That was "Invaders From Mars" scary.
IIRC, they went through around 300 weather balloons during the series as the Rovers would pop while chasing their prey.

* I'm not going to track it down right now, but somewhere out on the web there's a photo of that thing, which looks about as threatening as a oversized Roomba.
Of course... a Roomba scaled up to the the size where it could suck up people like so many Boxelder Bugs would be pretty impressive, wouldn't it?
General Klytus, get to work on this concept immediately!
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
And power them via _Radium_, Klytus... we don't want them to run out of energy with only _half_ of Earth's pathetic population suffering their skins being flayed from their bodies by the terrible rotating brushes, do we?
"Most effective, Your Majesty!" :-D

Pat

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