Hey There Cthulhu,.. If I Were A Deep One Saving The Reefs!

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Hey There Cthulhu,.. If I Were A Deep One Saving The Reefs! May 25, 2015 3:35:16 GMT -6 kdog, littled16, and 6 more like this

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Post by omegalogos on May 25, 2015 3:35:16 GMT -6

Disclaimer: This thread contains information regarding tentacle technology and may be disturbing and confronting and may make some of you blush and LOL or conversely snort is disgust and quickly leave the thread!

Please keep the obvious pornographic uses of tentacles and any such metaphors to yourselves! [Cough Cough Adult Members who know me can personal message me for a single artistic picture link. Don't try it if I don't know you ok! Cough Cough!]

Won't somebody think of Cthulhu errrhmm the Crown of Thorns erhhm the CORAL! THINK OF THE DAMN CORAL OK!

Explanation: Please come in my fine fellow HH members and welcome to this thread I promise it wont get to creepy ...

Tentacles swarm a helpless victim!

Muhahahahahaha! Come this way ....

Waving Pink Tentacle!

Before I link any tentacle technology I would like to invoke Cthulhu defender of the deep ...

Picture of Cthulhu!

[Music] Hey There Cthulhu [youtube]

OK now on with the tentacle technology ...

[Educational] Soft Robotic Tentacle [youtube]

The videp is short at only 12 seconds long so please rewatch it several times so as to not miss anything.
Tentacle in video lifts itself up and over a horseshoe barrier and then loops around it!

This open source tentacle will haunt your dreams! [techcrunch.com]

In the underground world of robotic tentacle makers, there are two rules: 1) don’t talk about underground tentacle-making and 2) don’t talk about underground tentacle-making. Both of those rules have been shattered by Matthew Borgatti, a robotics designer who has created a life-like, 3D-printed tentacle that flails around quite disturbingly using Arduino boards and a set of mini air compressors.

Please view the source article linked above for more information and to also watch the 2min long youtube video of that 3d printed tentacle in action.

So we have bionic tentacles ... now all we need is some way of protecting them ... I know lets add some armor ...

Robot Seahorse Armor: Seahorse tails may hold key to flexible robotic tentacles [gizmag.com]

The meaning of the word biomimicry is being devalued and inflated, to the point that any technology or design with the vaguest resemblance to something in the natural world tends to have the word unthinkingly applied to it. PR people in the automotive and architectural fields are now particularly fond of the word. So it's refreshing to be able to report on some research that has taken a detailed look at a natural phenomenon, the armor of a seahorse, and thought about how it might be applied in the field of robotics. The researchers think a similar structure of sliding plates could be used to improve robot arms used for underwater exploration and bomb disposal.

Again, please view the source article of this quote linked above it for the full story.

Ok so we can make a soft underwater robot like a squid or octopus or something slightly more armored like a firm robotic seahorse or starfish or even a hard crab version using the tentacles as internal muscles.

[Music] If I Were A Deep One! [youtube]

Now If I was a Deep One in the form of a remotely controlled Adopt-A-Robot starfish I could try to defend the great barrier reefs coral from the dreaded ~~Game of Thrones~~ Crown of Thorns starfish! [Make it an online game!]

Here is the enemy ... Crown of Thorns Starfish [wiki]

And this is our friend that we would be trying to save ... Coral [wiki]

Coral Outcrop (Flynn Reef) [wiki]

Ok, That is the basic very rough idea and I hope my fellow HH members can help me flesh out these bare bones [ironic as tentacles don't have bones] that I have presented in various ways from secure underwater comms for remote control [sonar?], to which organizations I should seek out to propose this concept to etc.

Is this a good idea or am I inviting skynet terminator day like death upon us all due to unintended consequences?

Is this practical and doable and is there a market for adopt a eco-rescue robot?

Would this self fund itself or would it rely on Government assistance grants?

Would this violate any laws?

Personal Disclosure: I got the idea for adopt a robot from The Adopt a Bot Project by Brian Marshall [thedesigninspiration.com] whose art is amazing!

The pink tentacle that invites my fellow members into the thread can be found following info at this link We've got plenty of finger tentacles [geyserofawesome.com] , again amazing artwork!

Finally I would like to close out this opening post with a female cover of the same song that opened this opening post ...

Hey There Cthulhu - Female Cover [youtube]

Praise be to Cthulhu, Defender of the Deep, Protector of the Coral Reefs!

Lady with finger tentacles praying to Cthulhu!

Lady with finger tentacles praying to Cthulhu!

Muhahahahaha!

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Hey There Cthulhu,.. If I Were A Deep One Saving The Reefs! May 25, 2015 12:20:45 GMT -6 littled16, Doug, and 3 more like this

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Post by kdog on May 25, 2015 12:20:45 GMT -6

omegalogos,

Love it !
I do have a question for you though. When this robot with tentacles is implemented to gather up those nasty starfish, what would they do with them? Relocate or destroy them?

Peace,
k

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Hey There Cthulhu,.. If I Were A Deep One Saving The Reefs! May 26, 2015 10:35:55 GMT -6 kdog, EyesOpenMouthShut, and 1 more like this

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Post by omegalogos on May 26, 2015 10:35:55 GMT -6

May 25, 2015 12:20:45 GMT -6 kdog said:

omegalogos,

Love it !
I do have a question for you though. When this robot with tentacles is implemented to gather up those nasty starfish, what would they do with them? Relocate or destroy them?

Peace,
k

Explanation: I advocate management and not erradication as I was talking with my mum and she was telling me that she didn't think they were a invasive species and were required to keep the coral healthy by eating old and dying coral and that the divers got the wrong impression as they emotionally wanted to save the coral and they went down and cut the starfish in half which they thought would kill it but just created two new starfish and amplified the supposed problem eventually making it a real problem! [epic facepalm]

She stated she thinks they now use electrical shocks to kill the whole starfish! :shocked:

Personal Disclosure: I think there needs to be a managed cull back to manageable [farm sustainable?] numbers and then the remain small numbers allowed to feed on certain plots of coral and we farm both the coral and the crown of thorns!

Which brings me to ask has anyone every heard of companion planting with coral?

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Hey There Cthulhu,.. If I Were A Deep One Saving The Reefs! May 26, 2015 11:34:26 GMT -6 omegalogos, EyesOpenMouthShut, and 1 more like this

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Post by Doug on May 26, 2015 11:34:26 GMT -6

I think that such a idea is pretty good and the uses could be expanded so much further than culling the COT Starfish. Maybe a large version that could recover nuclear warheads or power cores from sunken ships/submarines. Maybe even so big that a group of them could recover the entire ship?

I'm not to sure as to how effective on land they would be unless as you state that the tentacles would be used as underlying musculature. I bet that there needs to be a lot more improvement in the tech before it could do the things that exo-skeletons can do right now.

A tentacle tube that can be customized to wear like pants or shirt that would give a disabled person the ability to move about in a more normal fashion would be a great leap forward.

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Hey There Cthulhu,.. If I Were A Deep One Saving The Reefs! Jul 27, 2015 5:16:26 GMT -6 EyesOpenMouthShut likes this

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Post by omegalogos on Jul 27, 2015 5:16:26 GMT -6

Explanation: Just linking my latest thread about synthetic coral as reference thread.

Synthetic Corals Can One Day Help Clean Oceans [hernandoshideaway.net]

Personal Disclosure: Maybe we can feed the synthetic coral to the crown of thorns starfish and protect the real coral!?

:think:

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Hey There Cthulhu,.. If I Were A Deep One Saving The Reefs! Aug 31, 2015 3:52:43 GMT -6 littled16 and minstrel63 like this

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Post by omegalogos on Aug 31, 2015 3:52:43 GMT -6

@ kdog, littled16, Doug,

Explanation: UPDATE! ...

COTSBot: New robot aims to terminate crown-of-thorns starfish destroying Great Barrier Reef [abc.net.au]

Queensland researchers are close to completing work on an autonomous robot that will cruise the Great Barrier Reef and inject the destructive crown-of-thorns starfish with a toxic solution.

The starfish is no bigger than a dinner plate, but collectively it represents one of the biggest threats to the Great Barrier Reef, already destroying around 40 per cent of the reef from Cooktown to the Whitsundays.

The COTSBot underwater robot looks like a sophisticated remote control toy submarine.

But it has been designed to cruise around a designated area of coral reef, seeking out and destroying the predator crown-of-thorn starfish or COTS.

Using GPS technology and powerful thrusters, the robot is designed to cruise about a metre above the coral surface and using visual recognition technology, it will look for the pests.

When it sees one, an injector arm will shoot out and stab it.

If the robot reaches its potential, it could be a big weapon in the fight for the reef.

Please view source article for full story ok! :up:

Personal Disclosure: :awesome!:

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