{"id":1794,"date":"2009-07-15T13:33:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T20:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/and-following-the-great-clash-the-victors-dined-upon-the-dead\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T19:55:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T02:55:25","slug":"and-following-the-great-clash-the-victors-dined-upon-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/15\/and-following-the-great-clash-the-victors-dined-upon-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;And after the great and terrible clash, the victors dined upon the dead&#8230;.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,532492,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">from Fox News<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-size: 1.67em; font-weight: bold\">Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies<\/h1>\n<p>It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology \u2014 and a 20th-century horror movie.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/images\/545277\/0_61_eatr_robot_landscape.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" \/>A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find \u2014 grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.Robotic Technology Inc.&#8217;s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot \u2014 that&#8217;s right, &#8220;EATR&#8221; \u2014 &#8220;can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable,&#8221; reads the company&#8217;s Web site.That &#8220;biomass&#8221; and &#8220;other organically-based energy sources&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t necessarily be limited to plant material \u2014 animal and human corpses contain plenty of energy, and they&#8217;d be plentiful in a war zone.[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,532492,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Fox News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Fox News Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology \u2014 and a 20th-century horror movie.A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find \u2014 grass, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}