DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. Above all, enjoy the show. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
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Robots assembling Ford Truck Bodies
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On This Day, January 25th, 1979, A factory worker was killed by a robot.
Robert Nicholas Williams climbed into a shelving unit to investigate an assembly-line malfunction, where he was struck in the head by an industrial robot and killed. The incident was the first recorded instance of a person being killed by a robot, and it broke science-fiction author Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics: “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Williams' death was an "industrial accident," one in which the lack of physical safeguards were at fault. The death was not caused by the robot's will. Williams' family was awarded $10 million in damages, the largest personal injury award in Michigan at the time. The jury agreed the robot struck him in the head because of a lack of safety measures.
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Origin of the word ROBOT. The Word: Derived from the Czech word robota (forced labor) and rab (slave), rooted in Slavic languages.
The Playwright: Karel Čapek coined the term for his 1920 science fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots).
The Idea: In the play, robots were artificial biological beings created to serve humans, but they rebelled, leading to the extinction of humanity.
Modern Robotics: The term quickly shifted from biological servants to mechanical and electronic devices, evolving into the complex machines we know today, a concept later explored by writers like Isaac Asimov, who also coined "robotics".
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For the January 25th SPS I have a 125 StreamMate and 127 OceanMate with Yellow Kraton handles. They are listed but not pictured in the 1984-1986 catalogs. The StreamMate has a 4.5" blade and the OceanMate is 9". The catalog refered to the color as "Nautical Yellow". The yellow Kraton knives came with black leahter sheaths as opposed to the normal brown leather. The steel is listed as "rust resistant, high chrome, high carbon steel", I assume it is 425M. Not shown is the Yellow 6.5" LakeMate. Inventory says I have two of them but dang if I know where.
. I got into my gmail settings and got the AI invasion out of there this morning. I can still use AI but gmail does not need to see what I talk about. Since I don't have a BUCK fillet knife I can post the first "collectible" knife I ever owned. Sent to me on my birthday by my Son in 2007. He started something I can't seem to finish. Kaleb Reynolds (Muskrat Man) made the bone handles for me.
