The Wife asked me who Robby the Robot was. I barely breathe and my pictures come out all blurry.Īfter watching the news broadcast about Pluto and the New Horizon, I asked The Wife, “Wonder if they’ll see Robby the Robot out there?” That’s when IT happened. How the spaceship accomplished such a thing is truly amazing. It seems like science-fiction that such a feat could even be performed: taking clear pictures while traveling 14 miles a second – not Col. Guess if you were that far away from the sun, you’d be blue too.” To quote Little One’s bedtime story, “Pluto is the furthest from the sun, cold and blue. Hurtling through space at over 14 miles a second, New Horizons took clear pictures revealing the planet Pluto to be blue with a giant white heart and snow-capped mountains around its equator. As I remember, he gets really blue in the face if you don’t. But to be safe, I’ll keep calling Pluto a planet just in case Col. Who am I to disobey a colonel? Besides, on his final exam I called it a moon and got it wrong. The tiny blue speck in the night sky is now referred to as a dwarf world by the scientific community, but not by me.Ĭolonel Baker, my tenth-grade science teacher at Briarwood High School Home of the Mighty Buccaneers, said it was a planet.
Yes, I know, Pluto lost planetary status some years back because of its small size. And what of the second incident? It’s truly unbelievable, but since I was standing right next to The Wife when it happened, I have a witness.Īlthough it’s taken nine years, and traveled over 3 billion miles, the New Horizons spacecraft has finally reached the smallest planet in our solar system – Pluto. For those out there in reader land, the first will interest the science geek in all of you. Robby is planned to be added to Build Mode as a Cutscene Creator actor along with Kona.Two amazing things happened at our house Tuesday morning, and oddly, both concerned space travel.Kona then jokes that Robby is more capable than her, as he can't get infected. In Docks, Willow calls Robby a "Tin Can".This may be explained in a future chapter. It is also possible Kona could of detached Robby's robot arm and fixed his eyes.While not the same robot, Robby and a similar droid played an important role in the tenth chapter of both books.
#Robby the robot skin#
Robby protected them from the infected, and once they reached the surface, they left Robby behind as they head towards Outpost Echo. Later, the Safe Place and Willow went with Robby down to Kona's lab. While Kona assured that it was safe, Robby stood in Kona's base while Kona was talking about what he was doing. When the Safe Place, and Willow, got near to Kona's base, Robby jumped and surprised the Player. Unfortunately, he was embarrassing in the public and likely failed his task, so Kona gave Robby a new purpose: To be his assistant. Its right ear is also black.Īt some point, presumably before the Infection, Kona manufactured Robby along with other Mall Security Droids and was built to protect the Mall. It has two blue eyes that glow with black sclera. It also has two black lines above his snout that goes all the way to the top of his head along with two other black lines that are also connected to the snout. It has a dark gray snout with black nostrils. It is a dark gray robot that is built to resemble a pig.