Signs that the future is actually here

From today’s paper: Space station to get giant robot. The Onion?No, AP News. The astronauts involved in the mission were not reassuring:

“But I’ll tell you something. . . . He’s enormous, and to see him with his giant arms, it is a little scary. It’s a little monstrous, it is.”

— astronaut Garrett Reisman

Of course, the robot is named “Dextre.” The NASA web site has photos of the space station.