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Cat can recognize a face faster than supercomputer
scitech ^ | April 15

Posted on 04/15/2010 8:50:25 PM PDT by JoeProBono

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1 posted on 04/15/2010 8:50:26 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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2 posted on 04/15/2010 8:52:20 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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Beware the cybercat...


3 posted on 04/15/2010 8:53:00 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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4 posted on 04/15/2010 8:54:22 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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My cat can recognize a can of tuna faster than any face!


5 posted on 04/15/2010 8:55:01 PM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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can hear a can opener faster too Your cat looks like my late Mr. Ed best cat ever got a little misty looked just like him


6 posted on 04/15/2010 8:55:56 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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7 posted on 04/15/2010 8:56:40 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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Trying to create an even more vicious SkyNet, huh? A cat that can claw you by launching Trident SLBMs at ya! Better stock up on Whiskas and other cat chow, for our overlords just got cyber power!


8 posted on 04/15/2010 8:57:20 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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9 posted on 04/15/2010 8:58:01 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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The positive side of having a supercomputer with the brain capacity of a cat is that you don’t have to clean a giant computer’s litterbox.

On the negative side, it’s just not emotionally satisfying to cuddle with a computer the way it is with a cat.


10 posted on 04/15/2010 8:59:04 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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11 posted on 04/15/2010 9:00:56 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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"Out in the pitiless nothingness of space, the Partners' minds responded to an instinct as old as life. The Partners attacked, striking with a speed faster than Man's, going from attack to attack until the Rats or themselves were destroyed.

--Cordwainer Smith, "The Game of Rat and Dragon"

12 posted on 04/15/2010 9:05:27 PM PDT by denydenydeny (The welfare state turns us all into zoo animals, mouths open, waiting for the next feeding.)
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Cool. Then he walks in front of a car.

Smart. But dumb.


13 posted on 04/15/2010 9:06:00 PM PDT by lurk
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14 posted on 04/15/2010 9:09:37 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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A feline SkyNet might be distracted with string...


15 posted on 04/15/2010 9:12:08 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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Thank God.


16 posted on 04/15/2010 9:17:34 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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17 posted on 04/15/2010 9:20:31 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
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No wonder why I have CAT-5 network cables.


18 posted on 04/15/2010 9:20:57 PM PDT by edpc (Those Lefties just ain't right)
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kittehs


19 posted on 04/15/2010 9:25:58 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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Cyberkittehs!


20 posted on 04/15/2010 9:40:15 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (FUBO! FUNP! FUHR! FUBS!)
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