The Looks Like A Robot Flickr pool doesn’t require more description than its title: it’s a wonderful showcase of metal man pareidolia. Pictured: Hobart from Planet Tobor.
Image: wryondedwards
Looks Like A Robot [Flickr via BotJunkie via Robot Dreams]
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John, thanks for teaching me a new word — I learn something new every day! Definitions of pareidolia on the Web:
* Pareidolia is the perception of seeing a distinct image in a collection of formless matter. An example would be seeing faces or shapes in a cloud.
* The term pareidolia , referenced in 1994 by Steven Goldstein, describes a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an …
* The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the viewer; such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals or seeing shapes in clouds
I for one welcome our new Hobart Masters!
That robot is a beautiful, old welding machine (SMAW or “stick-welder”). You’d best not to cross it least it weld your car doors shut…
ROBAHT!
It sounds like a word, it looks like a word, it’s in Wikipedia. It’s not actually a word though.
that is obviously a welding machine