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WE’RE IN FOR a wet and stormy day today, with a combination of strong winds and heavy rain creating a risk of flooding in some parts of Munster and Leinster.
According to Met Éireann, the rain could be “thundery” at times, with the heaviest showers forecast for the beginning of the day and easing off in the southwest by the evening.
Up to 50mm of rain could fall in 11 counties in the east and south today.
A Status Yellow wind warning is in place for Leinster, Cork, Tipperary and Waterford from 8am until 6pm today.
Southeast winds will reach mean speeds of 50 to 65km/h with gusts between 90 and 100km/h. Winds strongest along southern areas at first but gradually extending to all parts of Leinster by late morning and afternoon.
A Status Yellow rainfall warning has been issued for Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Wexford, Wicklow and Waterford from 3am today until midnight.
Periods of heavy rain [today and last night] will lead to accumulations of 30 to 50mm generally, with some larger amounts on higher ground. Some localised flooding expected.
In Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary, another Status Yellow rainfall warning has been in place since 9pm last night until 3pm today.
Periods of heavy rain overnight and on Wednesday will lead to accumulations of 40 to 50mm generally, with some larger amounts on higher ground. Some localised flooding expected.
Temperatures are set to drop later in the week, with Met Éireann predicting snowfall for St Patrick’s Day.
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This wont end well. Have they not seen the movie Alien.
@Niallers: HAL 9000
@SFNutters: IG-88
@Means of escape: it looks a lot like the chappiee bot.
@Means of escape: or Android (the 1982 film with Klaus Kinsky) or even Saturn 3 (also released in 1982, with Kirk Douglas and Harvey Kitel).
@David Jordan: Prefer the real steel robot/cobot.
@Niallers: beat me to it :D
Have ye not seen 2001? What could possibly go wrong HAL? ‘I am afraid I can’t tell you, John.’
@willow moon: An interesting fact about HAL in 2001 A Space Oddessy. The acronym HAL is IBM shifted one letter forwards. However this was a complete coincidence. Arthur C Clarke (the author) never knew this until a fan pointed out out years later.
@Paraic: one letter backwards
@SFNutters: Meant to say: “HAL is IBM WHEN shifted one letter forwards”. Typo.
Danger Will Robinson, Danger!
@Leroy Brown: lol lost in space tv programme
A robot in space ummm. A Russian robot, christ
@Tommy C: it’s a robot.. but its russian… my gawd!
Ed-209: “Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply.”
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Will he be back?
Really like this cobot as its human mimic controlled. I wonder how big the time delay is and how they plan to overcome this in realtime control.
@Simon O Flaherty: the minimum lag could be as little as 0.24 second to the ISS but likely longer as the instructions would he complicated. Still basically immediate control. Here is an article I got the answer from https://www.wired.com/2013/02/a-duet-from-space/
@Edmund Murphy: Interesting article, thanks.
It’s ok though, battery technology is still too primitive so he will need to be plugged in to the mains. Just unplug it if it misbehaves.
Once robots have long lasting power sources though, that’s a different story.
This robot can’t even stand. If you look at it well it held by 2 ropes.
@Oleksandr Savitskyy: it is designed to operate in a zero gravity environment where launch weight is a major issue. I’m surprised they even bothered to give it legs and not a second set of hands. Not being able to stand is no issue.
I hope he doesn’t do a Hal 9000 on them!
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