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Dextre the Magnificent

apod.nasa.gov — In a surprising and potentially troubling request, the new space station robot known as Dextre demanded that astronauts refer to it in the future at "Dextre the Magnificent".

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  • vroom101, on 04/01/2008, -9/+3Dextre Takes On Robot-cool Personality High Above Earth: http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html ...
    Via http://digg.com/space/Dextre_Takes_On_Robot_cool_P ...
  • caponumen, on 04/01/2008, -2/+14He's demanding beer and back bacon now......
  • ElAssoWipo, on 04/01/2008, -9/+41You're not supposed to say it's an April fools in the same paragraph you nerds. And you're espescially not supposed to explain the mechanics of the joke with a historical context, you asperger's afflicted nerds.
    • SuperWinner, on 04/01/2008, -3/+6aspergers is the new retarded
    • ligyron, on 04/01/2008, -2/+3They didn't want to risk people taking it seriously and getting disappointed when they found out it was fake, then no longer Digging the site
    • OneLess, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6Calling astrophysicists "nerds" somehow doesn't have the same bite as the rest of the population. Perhaps you'd be better suited to hanging around high schools than APOD.
    • clpo13, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1There are rules to April Fools' Day? Or are you just being anal?
  • ihccab, on 04/01/2008, -2/+6Asimov would love this.
    • breckinshire, on 04/01/2008, -1/+2[Takes a drink from Colt 45, pours the rest on the ground] One for me and one for my homey.
  • Lord_oftheTrons, on 04/01/2008, -2/+33Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?
    • Harabeck, on 04/01/2008, -3/+2Dave, the cosmonaught is urinating on the solar panels again.
  • phybere, on 04/01/2008, -2/+17I for one welcome our new space station robot overlords.
  • LellysHubby, on 04/01/2008, -3/+1Isn't this how the Terminator story began lol
  • heartsblood, on 04/01/2008, -0/+7I for one welcome our new spa...*****.
  • citydragon, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1Not that magnificent, they've only given him one leg.
    • MaidMirawyn, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1The other one is out for service. He will be returned to full operating capacity shortly.
  • musters, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3I for one welcome our new Canadian robot overlords.
  • ElMoondog, on 04/01/2008, -0/+0Shall we play a game?
  • eigenweasel, on 04/01/2008, -2/+1Here's a suggestion guys...

    digg.com. 7200 IN CNAME apod.nasa.gov.

    It would save us all a lot of time.
  • Jordan117, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2"Tomorrow's picture: fusion balls"
    • charlietuna, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Sorry... all out of fusion balls apparently.
  • mrwoody80, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1Daisies, daisies.....
  • AmbroseKali, on 04/22/2008, -0/+0I´m glad to see you my friend you look real good, let us journey now to the stars.
    And we can fly through space and make huge robots. And we will give them places to live.
    We´ll visit other planets and make new friends. We´ll hold and hands and they´ll teach us a game.
    It´s fun to learn the game and we all play well.
    We like to taste all of their strange foods.

    We navigate, and we crate big robots to help us out.
    When we land, we make new friends and they´re impressed with our robots.
    We like fun, games are fun, fun is good, robots are good.
    We live on earth, but out in space, we like to live in our spaceship.

    Exploring the universe.
    Exploring the universe.

    We now must leave our new friends, but don´t be sad, we´ll come back here to see them again.
    And just maybe next time we´ll teach them a fun game. I bet that they will learn it so fast.
    We give them hugs and smile. Let´s wave goodbye! It´s fun to see their different parts.
    They´re shaped a little different than us, but hey, we love them just the same cause they´re swell.

    We navigate, and we crate big robots to help us out.
    When we land, we make new friends and they´re impressed with our robots.
    We like fun, games are fun, fun is good, robots are good.
    We live on earth, but out in space, we like to live in our spaceship.

    Expolring the universe.
    Exploring the universe.
    We are from earth, exploring the universe.
    We are from earth, exploring the universe.
    We are from earth, exploring the universe.
    We are from earth, exploring the universe.
    We are from earth, exploring the universe!
    We are from earth, exploring the universe!
    We are from earth, exploring the universe!
    We are from earth, exploring the universe!

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