[ProtectOurFreedom]

I watched "Metalhead" last night on Netflix. Wow, this is the scariest SciFi episode I've seen in a long while and it really makes you think about all the dire predictions of AI destroying mankind. It reminded me in many ways of the SciFi movie "The Road." You come into the film at some unknown post-apocalyptic point where everything tech has gone wrong, the incipient end world is at hand, and there are a few brave people trying to survive and restore civilization.

I included the LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) quote in the excerpt above because I thought it was very well depicted and, as Slade says, accurately portrays what LIDAR does.

If you want to see real LIDAR being used in autonomous vehicles, check out Velodyne LIDAR.

Real LIDAR images at YouTube:
1. Butterfield 2.M2TS: Live LiDar scan with a Velodyne scanner, mounted atop a pickup truck (2010).
2. Velodyne LiDAR VLS-128™ Sensor: Velodyne VLS-128 sensor (2017).

[TomGuy]

I have only watched the first 2 episodes of this season of Black Mirror.

Netflix released a bunch of series with new seasons/episodes the last month, so I am binge-watching a lot.

I tried to watch ‘The Road’, but couldn’t get into it. There have been many relatively new movies that sort of drop the viewers into the middle of an apocalypse or alien attack and never fill us in on how we/they got to this point. These are as bad as those that mimic students-with-cams-catching-events. That is, students-with-wobbly-cams ... I turn this genre off as the wobbling makes me nauseous.

[artichokegrower]

Watched it the other night. Definitely kept you on the edge of your seat. Wondered what a Barrett M82 chambered in BMG .50 would have done to the predatory robot.

[plain talk]

I have only started watching the first episodes of black mirror so I have a long ways to go until I get to that episode. I am usually behind the curve when it comes to what’s in and hip.

Thanks for posting.

[Blackirish]

Yeah...Metalhead was scary. I thought USS Calister was a blast.

[Yardstick]

The Road — now that was an intense movie. I watched it a couple years ago and still ponder it from time to time.

[Vince Ferrer]

The new Spotmini

[eddie willers]

check out Velodyne LIDAR.

I saw the Velodyne and thought, "The subwoofer people?"

Turns out....yes indeedy.

[tumblindice]

Tossing paint on it was inspired but not sure why she didn’t just shotgun off another leg or two. Then it’s disabled.
That was a good episode. That’s some spooky stuff.