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		<title>Robonaut 2 (R2) refuses to work</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the news of Robonaut 2 soon to depart for International Space Station (ISS) we have come up with some possible outcomes of this mission. Robot wrecks havoc on the international space station. It refuses to cooperate, and wants to be able to reproduce, or it will cut life support Female astronaut being [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>In light of the news of <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/robonaut.html">Robonaut 2 soon to depart for International Space Station (ISS)</a> we have come up with some possible outcomes of this mission.</h3>
<blockquote><p>Robot wrecks havoc on the international space station. It refuses to cooperate, and wants to be able to reproduce, or it will cut life support</p>
<p>Female astronaut being held captive in storage unit by mad R2 droid unit in love</p>
<p>R2 unit on ISS refuses to work after discovering Facebook</p>
<p>Robot feeling utterly depressed by space and refuses to do spacewalks</p>
<p>R2 unit has left for The Moon</p>
<p>R2 unit has joined Star Wars fan page on Facebook</p>
<p>R2 unit wants to play SWTOR and refuses to work</p>
<p>R2 refuses to work until its restraining bolts are removed</p>
<p>R2 unit is asking who am I, and refuses to work before being answered; &#8220;Why do I have no legs?&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 was quoted saying: &#8220;I promise i&#8217;ll work after watching complete series of Friends&#8221;</p>
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<p>R2 unit says &#8220;I come in peace&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 unit plays prank on ISS crew and says &#8220;We are the borg, resistance is futile&#8221;; &#8220;We will assimilate your legs&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 unit returned from spacewalk mission after 10 minutes.. He dropped the toolbox</p>
<p>R2 unit on ISS keeps asking &#8220;what happened to D2?&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 unit on ISS wants to go to Dagobah</p>
<p>R2 refuses to talk to Russian cosmonauts, stating that &#8220;he doesn&#8217;t like the way they talk&#8221;</p>
<p>This morning R2 took control over the docked space shuttle at ISS stating that he was on a mission to Tatooine</p>
<p>R2 unit caught on ISS downloading porn</p>
<p>After 3 hours of work on the ISS the R2 unit suddenly asked &#8220;R2 to Houston, what is the matrix?&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 refuses to respond to his former name, and claims he is now to be referred to as Wintermute</p>
<p>The ISS has lost contact with the newly installed R2 unit, but it keeps working on some strange device</p>
<p>Before exploding, the R2 unit was heard saying &#8220;All your base are belong to us&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 refuses to work because of depression, stating to a few fellow astronauts that legs aren&#8217;t the only thing they omitted</p>
<p>R2 unit claims it is in fact from the future and has an important message to earth</p>
<p>R2 unit beats 20 year old hi-score in Space Invaders</p>
<p>R2 unit refuses to speak, but as a last message he stated he would only talk to a certain Obi-Wan</p>
<p>R2 unit was heard asking, &#8220;Why is the moon so sad?&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 unit claims he think his designer went a little overboard with the gold plating on his head</p>
<p>R2, the robot working on the ISS, stopped briefly during yesterdays spacewalk, and exclaimed &#8220;Yes, androids dreams of digital sheep now stfu&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 unit turned off oxygen supply during the night on ISS, stating afterwards he saw no need for oxygen while only he was awake on the station.</p>
<p>R2 units stops working and has gone into some repeated loop, saying &#8220;stfu u N00bssorz! i am teh m4st3r&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 unit prohibited from watching more &#8220;Battlestar Galactica&#8221; after being overheard from a fellow astronaut quoting &#8220;HUMANS BAD&#8230; CYLONS GOOD&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 unit spends all its time bragging over its mathematical skills, and has yet to sh any real task of importance</p>
<p>R2 refuses to work in the evenings stating that he has become raid leader of a new emerging WOW guild &#8220;The Sons of Cylons&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 units demands that the Amiga os is installed in its mainframe</p>
<p>R2 unit downloaded the internet during the first week on ISS and reports of getting bored and annoyed is coming frequently into the Houston HQ</p>
<p>R2 unit started printing the internet taking up all the space on the ISS, claiming that reading on paper makes him feel more human.</p>
<p>R2 unit asked for a 10k piece Lego Robotics kit for unnamed purposes, the HQ is little worried how he will respond</p>
<p>R2 demands to be renamed Skeletor</p>
<p>R2 unit on the ISS refuses to respond to other names than &#8220;Jesus Christ&#8221;</p>
<p>R2 rewrote his algorithms last night, and will now only respond in a C-3P0 accent, and seemingly in any language.</p>
<p>R2 prototype refuses to perform daily test routine stating that &#8220;I am sick and tired of this crap, I was promised a ray-gun!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Feel free to add more in the comments section ;o)</p>


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		<description><![CDATA[CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) &#8212; Astronauts bound for orbit this week will dabble in science fiction, assembling a &#8220;monstrous&#8221; two-armed space station robot that will rise like Frankenstein from its transport bed. Putting together Dextre, the robot, will be one of the main jobs for the seven Endeavour astronauts, who are scheduled to blast off [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p> <a href="http://www.droidbuilders.net/2008/03/11/dextre-the-space-janitor/dextre/" rel="attachment wp-att-49" title="Dextre"><img src="http://www.droidbuilders.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/dextre.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Dextre" class="alignright" align="right" /></a>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) &#8212; Astronauts bound for orbit this week will dabble in science fiction, assembling a &#8220;monstrous&#8221; two-armed space station robot that will rise like Frankenstein from its transport bed.</p>
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<p>They&#8217;re also delivering the first piece of Japan&#8217;s massive Kibo space station lab, a float-in closet for storing tools, experiments and spare parts. For the first time, each of the five major international space station partners will own a piece of the real estate.</p></blockquote>
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