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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1992-04-07  |  6.0 MB  |  160x120  |  10fps  |  1 minute, 11 seconds  |  [MooV/TVOD]
Transcription: You know, recently a fair amount of military research has focused on the study of nature rather than technology. When the army was trying to build a six-legged robot that could walk on the moon, they were having a lot of design problems. So they decided, hey, let's look at insects. They've got six legs. Let's see how they do it. So they spent an enormous amount of money on this research. And what they discovered was that six-legged insects can barely walk. They're constantly tipping over and tripping over their legs and breaking them off. But like all military research that goes billions over ...