Robots that eat meat

Oh, for Pete's sake! I've already railed against scientists for foolishly reviving an ancient, X-Files-esque bacteria that will make us all die of the super-flu, and designing The Matrix-style robo-squids that will enslave us if the super-flu doesn't kill us first... Well, now they're designing household robots that power themselves by eating living creatures. Let the full horror of that sink in for a second. Robots that eat meat.

Oh, sure, the robots start with flies, mice and other household pests. But you really think it stops there? How long until they eat your parakeet? Or your cat? Or you? The coming robot uprising was bad enough when all we had to worry about was being enslaved. Now we have to worry about being eaten by androids!

Listen, Science: get back to curing the common cold, sending astronauts to Mars, that kind of stuff. And the next time you come up with some wacky new way to destroy the world, don't hurry into the lab and get to work developing it. Call the Sci-Fi Channel, and let them turn it into a crappy movie of the week starring Robert Beltran and Dirk Benedict. Seriously, just say the words Robots that Eat Meat and the guys from Sci-Fi will show up at your door twenty minutes later pushing a wheelbarrow full of money.


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