Message from @wacka
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Mark Twain saw it on tour and wrote about it
MT was way before his time
had like one of the first telephones
and even then he wrote about it in 1867 - so even to him he must have been like, wow they made this back in 1772 π
Has anyone heard of the turk?
βI watched the Silver Swan, which had a living grace about his movement and a living intelligence in his eyes, watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellerβs shop.β
It's the most interesting mechanical marvel I've heard of
just think, in 4 years after that was made the world changed forever
FREEDOM
yeah its older than the US
which we also invented ;P
you might have invented it
Automatons are really impressive. I like the one of the writing boy which can be programmed to write whatever you want it to
but we perfected it
fair enough π
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Also the one of the Japanese archer because it actually shoots a miniature arrow which is hilarious to me
It's a completely wooden robot, that plays chess
It beat people like Churchill and Napoleon Bonaparte
cant remember its name... like ernie or something
eric that was it
Yeah, that's the turk
this might sound weird
A guy rebuilt it
but old videos of automatons scare the shit out of me
It's still working
like clowns
or some shit
but im not scared of clowns
And it beat agrandmaster
nah this was a robot that stood up
its like a soulless being
oh I see I thought you were talking to me π
A magic shop guy rebuilt the turk, and it beat a grandmaster
There was a story where a guy tried to cheat, and the robot knocked off all the pieces from the board
It's really interesting
watching JRE with JBP
talking about the gulags and killing the farmers, then people died because no one was left to farm
same thing happening in South Africa