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- Po0py, on 09/04/2008, -3/+19I give it 24 hours before it's stolen.
- YodaJones, on 09/04/2008, -6/+1837 tons? That would be totally funny if it fell off and killed a lot of people..
- anagoge, on 09/04/2008, -0/+9Full schedule for the weekend:
Friday 5th September:
11.30h The scientists perform experiments on the creature using different special
effects to see how it responds to different stimuli. The creature wakes up and
is prevented from running away by a wall of Chinese firecrackers and by a
fire effect. Eventually the creature is sent to sleep by a snow machine.
18.00h The creature wakes and parades to Salthouse Dock.
19.30h The creature arrives at the Dock and takes a bath, accompanied by live music.
After her bath, she is dried and perfumed.
20.30h The creature sets off for Cunard Building.
21.00h The creature arrives at Cunard Building. It begins to snow gently and she
Falls asleep.
Saturday 6th September:
11.30h The creature wakes up in the middle of a magical snowscape, and is
serenaded with music.
12.30h The creature goes to sleep again.
14.45h The creature leaves Cunard Building and walks up Water Street.
15.30h The creature arrives at Town Hall – smoke effect.
15.40h The creature walks towards Derby Square along Castle Street.
16.00h Water ballet at Derby Square.
16.15h The creature walks down Lord Street to Holy Corner where it is snowing.
17.00h The creature sleeps.
18.30h The creature wakes and walks down Parker Street, serenaded on the way.
20.00h A tempest rages at Ranelagh Place.
20.30h The creature arrives at Concourse Tower, climbs up the tower and goes to sleep.
Sunday 7th September:
15.00h The creature wakes up and is prepared for the evening’s entertainment.
16.00h The creature goes back to sleep.
19.30h Cherry-pickers and musicians arrive.
20.00h The creature is removed from the tower with a crane.
20.30h The convoy leaves the tower and parades to Queensway Tunnel entrance.
21.15h The creature tries to escape, but is prevented from doing so by the special
effect machines.
21.30h Finale at Queensway tunnel.
Sounds pretty spectactular to me. I'm going. - eigenweasel, on 09/04/2008, -2/+11Scouser stole my spider.
- utdrew182, on 09/04/2008, -0/+9Jon Peters must have something to do with this
- shauntacular, on 09/04/2008, -1/+9I just hope America doesn't try to 1-up them and build an 80-ft cockroach.
- nacentaeons, on 09/04/2008, -0/+8People that moan and snipe about this costing money seem to misunderstand what the capital of culture year is all about. A series a large scale arts events bring publicity and tourism to the city boost the economy by several times the cost of the events. Its called a catalyst. Its exactly the same this as happened in Bilbao, take a dump of a city spend some money on a 'jewel' of a building and it changes the perception of the city and boosts tourists several hundred fold. This initial investment will turn out to be a bargain (and indeed it already has as tourism in liverpool has exceeded expectations during the capital of culture year).
Plus its about the coolest piece of public art I have ever seen. - RyGiL, on 09/04/2008, -0/+8From the article- "The steel and wood spider has sophisticated hydraulics which allow the dozen engineers strapped to its frame to operate its eyes, legs and abdomen."
Strapped to its frame? That thing ain't big enough for a dozen people to be on it. Is that a misprint or do they really have a dozen midget engineers running around willing to be strapped to a giant spider as it scales 10 story buildings? - WhipTail, on 09/04/2008, -0/+8"A couple month later i saw his new movie 'Wild Wild West' and i was like... this sucks. Then all of a sudden this huge ***** SPIDER burst out of no where!" - Kevin Smith
- webkami, on 09/04/2008, -4/+10Brought to you by
Daily Mail - British cousin of The Onion - scottybowl, on 09/04/2008, -0/+6its part of a 3 day event.. http://www.lamachine.co.uk/index.php
should hopefully be going to see all this stuff this weekend! - inactive, on 09/04/2008, -0/+6Where's the Earth Defense Force when you need them?!
- bosssmiley, on 09/04/2008, -0/+6Can you honestly think of a better use for taxpayers £££s than giant Scouser-eating mechanical spiders?
I move that we get half-a-dozen of these things for Newcastle, all optimised to eat Chavs while firing shurikens and lightning. - xoxota, on 09/04/2008, -2/+7Hilarious! Those wacky... Liverpudlians?
- Greengoo, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4That annoyed me, too. It's not an insect.
- polyGone, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4Huge insect? WTF
- theodenking, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4No the Daily Mail is a sensationalist rag which long ago abandoned truthful, unbiased journalism for anything and everything that will sell copies to the countries' brainless unwashed masses. You'd find more news in a roll of toilet paper.
- DeskFlyer, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4Daily Mail is the like your garbage can outside coming to life to bring you news.
- ticktock4, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4Pictures will likely be updated here over time (images from 9/3 are up).
http://www.lamachine.co.uk/index.php/gallery/C6/ - koyner, on 09/04/2008, -2/+6A beetle would have gone down better.
- douce2, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4We need to call in Jim West, Desperado
- andyb747, on 09/04/2008, -1/+4its that ***** camel spider from afghanistan !
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3that sounds like a poorly translated script from a 1940's Japanese monster serial.
- powatom, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3This is going to be great - can't wait to see it walking around the streets. As for all those moaning about it being in Liverpool: Suck it, Britain! Liverpool forever.
- TekTrixter, on 09/04/2008, -1/+4It's tax payers' money, why should the people putting this on care about it being wasted?
- max1018, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3If you had checked, the BBC have a new story on this. Although you are right about the Daily Fail.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7595 ... - xoxota, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3I volunteer.
- eigenweasel, on 09/04/2008, -1/+4Dude, its giro day. The spider will be safe until Friday afternoon when the locals sober up.
- xoxota, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3Yeah, those HTTP 403 errors can be terrifying.
- doctechnical, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3What do female deer have to do with this? Did the spider eat one?
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -1/+3Woooooooooosh!
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -1/+3No, webkami is referring to the fact that the Daily Fail is the Fox News of the UK, and anything it publishes should be treated with extreme caution.
- bitterjack, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2you missed it. polyGONE said it above you some.
- Greengoo, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2See this? We don't want nadda.
- Robotsscareme, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2this scares me more than a regular robot.. why the ***** are people building giant robot spiders .. why?? i do not want to be killed by an army of these *****..
- armakaryk, on 09/04/2008, -1/+3in a seemingly unrelated story a blue police box has been spotted in the vicinity.
- ZeroCubed, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2This is pretty neat. I would love to see something like this in America. There's always a dull moment over here.
Anyone reminded of the Tachikomas from Ghost in the Shell? - alainrobidoux, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2That's amazing!
- IronDonut, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2It's not very often that the French make something interesting.
- doctechnical, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2I believe "frame" in this context refers to the frame they're lowering the spider from.
- drmitchell, on 09/04/2008, -1/+3"The huge insect spotted in Liverpool...."
No one's pointed out yet that spiders aren't insects?
I am deeply disappointed in Digg users. - anagoge, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2Why is the OIympics useless?
And London gets everything. Liverpool is a perfect place for Capital of Culture and this event because it boosts tourism and therefore regeneration. You should see the shocking amount of work that's gone into Liverpool over the last five years or so. The city has literally be rebuilt. I think it's pretty deserving of this. - doctechnical, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2"Apply snow effect! Go firecracker ring! Aaah, it's asleep now. Victory!"
- RAGEdemon, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2Dug for Painkiller/ZeroPunctuation reference :P
- dstz, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2"It could go around crushing chavs"
I tried to picture that, but it's far too awesome for my feeble mind. - dstz, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2They probably meant "mechanisms" ?
- bffoley, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1"Created by French company La Machine, the installation cost £1.8million to bring to Liverpool – and all but £250,000 of this was funded by the taxpayer."
Wow. Good to see Liverpool has nothing else to spend their tax dollars on. - mine12345, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1replicators - they're coming... watch out. stupid ass giant robo spiders will be the end of us all.....
- Sharky35, on 09/04/2008, -2/+3Makes the bridge to nowhere look like a good investment!
- xtothepowerofx, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1works when i click it and when i cut and paste it into a new window. what am i doing wrong?
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