Saturday, February 18, 2023

USMC 1, DARPA 0

 If you haven't seen this yet, you need to:


"You can't be three steps ahead of someone who doesn't know where they're going."

Truer words were never spoken.

In the classic tale of this genre, 10 Marines were put in a locked room covered in 3 feet of sand with 10 crowbars, and the Marines were told to test the crowbars to see if they were "Marine-proof"..

When they opened the room an hour later, 2 of the crowbars were twisted together inseparably,  5 of the crowbars were broken, and 3 of them were missing.

10 comments:

Jeb Texas said...

Gotta love the marines.

Anonymous said...

Nice

Rocketguy said...

I always heard that one with ball bearings and construction workers - at the end of the shift, 5 were broken, 2 were missing and three were smuggled home in lunch boxes.

Anonymous said...

Yet again we see that computers are nowhere near as capable as some people think.
I be this so called AI was really a basic machine learning program...

Anonymous said...

punchline of my favorite Marine story, "He broke the bowling ball."

RD

JC said...

They were told there would be crayons.

Orvan Taurus said...

Wait, none were pregnant?

Anonymous said...

In a previous life I was in need of some gear for my platoon (underwear, if you have to know). None to be found, Gunny said he'd get it cuz there's always stuff laying around loose. I indicated skepticism, he said "If it's loose its mine and if it ain't nailed down its loose and if I can pry it up it ain't nailed down." We had so many excess skivvies we traded for beer for a month.

John Wilder said...

I'm glad the Marines won. But on the horizon . . .

nick flandrey said...

Heard the crowbar one as an employment test for stagehands, give him a bowling ball, lock him in a closet, come back in thirty minutes and if the ball is lost, broken, or pregnant -- he gets the job.

n