(After a mechanical
robot rabbit built for one other Cubs interrupts
the session, Kiri offers to create another one
based on the Energizer bunny that I foolishly
accepted. As a result, she reveals the details she
expected to include in the construction.)
Kiri:
oh dear, dear, dear,
dear. Oh dear, dear,
dear, dear.
Russ: hi Kiri.
Kiri: yeah, hello. We
need to go and awake
up……..Tia’s gone to
wake up Diana.
(one of the Cubs)
Russ: get her rabbit
out of the house?
Kiri: uh-huh because
Tia caught it, held
onto it, handed it to
me right? And it went
limp because it was in
restraints. I put it
down and off it goes.
The other option is
that we just let it
bounce around all
night until the
battery runs down. The
only person that can
switch it off is….
Russ: Diana.
Kiri: exactly.
John: so it’s a
mechanical rabbit?
Kiri: uh-huh.
John: that you cannot
shut off?
Kiri: exactly.
John: kind of like the
Energizer Bunny that
we have in our
television
commercials?
Kiri: yes.
John: it's very
similar?
Kiri: yes, this one
will keep going for
about 12 hours
non-stop.
Russ: have a little
drum on this thing
going bang, bang,
bang, bang.
Kiri: I’ll make one
for you dear.
Russ: thank you, that
will be very
wonderful.
(Ed. note: I would
live to regret these
words)
Kiri: uh-huh and of
course because it will
only be moving slowly,
the battery will last
I should say
continuous use.......
(lots of laughter
ensues)
Russ: just set it off,
put it in the room and
make it so that only I
can turn it off, Karra
would kill it. She'll
take a baseball bat
and she’ll just
literally take it to
its finest particles.
Kiri: I can make it go
continuously without
stopping……..if I put a
little bit of a brain
in there, I can have
it work out a
particular path that
would……..I can have it
going for a year and a
half without needing a
recharge, is that
which you want?
Russ: that’s it, a
year and a half.
John: a year and a
half, oh man.
Kiri: you want it to
stop every so often
and go with the
drumsticks and then
off again?
Russ: there you go.
Kiri: cool, I can do
that.
Russ: it will last all
of an hour when the
novelty wears off and
Karra just throws it
in somebody’s pool.
Kiri: I’ll make it
waterproof. Do you
want me to make it out
of the same substance
that I made the
rabbits here out of?
Russ: yeah sure.
Kiri: okay.
John: yeah put a
little pair of goggles
on it too just in
case.
Russ: she'll stick it
out on Wookie
Mountain, out in the
snow.
Kiri: I made the ones
here, I dropped
weights of
approximately one of
your tons on it from
about 50 feet
repeatedly to test the
strength.
John: yeah?
Kiri: all three of
them have been through
that test and all
three of them survived
with flying colors,
not even a structural
tweak apart from one
has a slightly tweaked
ear but that was
because the sensor
picked up a
indentation in the
weight and read it as
being deeper than it
was but that’s only
the sensor in the ear.
John: what material is
this made out of?
Kiri: it’s made out of
a mixture of a
Duridium and I can’t
tell you the rest.
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