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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV Series 1988–1999)

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1988–19991988–1999
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1h 32m

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In the not-too-distant future Joel Robinson is held captive by Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank, forced to watch B-Grade movies on the Satellite of Love with the help of his robot friends: Cambo... Read allIn the not-too-distant future Joel Robinson is held captive by Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank, forced to watch B-Grade movies on the Satellite of Love with the help of his robot friends: Cambot, Gypsy, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot.In the not-too-distant future Joel Robinson is held captive by Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank, forced to watch B-Grade movies on the Satellite of Love with the help of his robot friends: Cambot, Gypsy, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot.

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- Joel Hodgson
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- Joel Hodgson
- Michael J. Nelson
- Trace Beaulieu

- Joel Hodgson
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- Joel Hodgson
- Michael J. Nelson
- Trace Beaulieu

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Top rated TV #138

Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 4 wins & 15 nominations total

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11 seasons

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12 years

199919981997199619951994199319921991199019891988See all

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Watch Mystery Science Theater 3000: We've Got Problems Too

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Watch Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXVI

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Watch Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXV

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Watch Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXIII

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Watch Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXII

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Watch Mystery Science Theater 3000: Vol. 15

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Watch Mystery Science Theater 3000: What Mike Nelson Learned From Mst3k

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Watch Mst3k: Turkey Day 2014: He Who Consumes Many Hams

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Watch Mst3k: Turkey Day 2014: Packers Won The Super Bowl!

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Watch Mst3k: Turkey Day 2014: Mst3k Literary Quiz Pyramid

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Watch Mst3k: Turkey Day 2014: Crow And Tom Servo's Stop Motion Dinosaur Fight

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Joel Hodgson

Joel Robinson…

Michael J. Nelson

Mike Nelson…

Trace Beaulieu

Crow T. Robot…

Kevin Murphy

Tom Servo…

Jim Mallon

Gypsy…

Frank Conniff

TV's Frank…

Mary Jo Pehl

Pearl Forrester…

Bill Corbett

Crow T. Robot…

Patrick Brantseg

Gypsy…

Alexandra Carr

Magic Voice…

Paul Chaplin

Ned the Nanite…

J. Elvis Weinstein

Tom Servo…

Bridget Jones

Flavia…

Beez McKeever

Roman Day Player…

Peter Rudrud

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Bradley J. Keely

Nathan Molstead

Timothy Scott

Miracle Growth Baby…

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The most Intelligent show created by the Imperfect race of Man

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The most intelligent show ever seen by the eyes of man, and created by man too.

This show greatly critiques the acts and creations of our imperfect society by making various remarks throughout the 'host segments' and 'movie segments' and makes good hilarity in the process.

If you have never seen it, you have to! I'd greatly recommend it for geeks and the fashionable alike, though the geeks seem to understand it a lot more.

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Jan 2, 2000

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- May 10, 1988 (United States)
- United States
- Official site
- Satellite News
- English
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- MST 3000
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Best Brains
- Comedy Central
- Home Box Office (HBO)
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1 hour 32 minutes
- Black and White
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- 1. 33 : 1

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“Hi!” “Hi, Sid, eat your cereal. It’s almost time for school.” “Okay, Mom! “Hey, what’s that smoke coming out of the tea kettle?” “When water gets very, very hot, it turns into steam. Now eat your cereal.” “Whoa! That’s amazing! I just learned something new about water! “Gotta go tell my friends at school!” “Bye, Mom! “Hi, Teacher Susie!” “Hi!” “So, you know the water that comes out of the faucet at home? Well, when water is like that, we call it a liquid. Aaand sometimes that water can change. I wonder how it changes and what else water can change into. I’m gonna go ask my friends.” “Yeah . . . talking about water makes me thirsty!” “Hi, Sid.” “Hi, May. Do you know any ways that water can change?” “Yes, I know a way. When it’s very cold outside, the water becomes really hard—kind of like a rock! “That’s called ice. Like ice cubes or glaciers at the North Pole. ” “What about you, Gabriela? How else can water change?” “I know! I’ve observed that sometimes water changes when it gets very, very hot. “Heating water in a pan makes it turn into a cloud that floats away in the air.” “Hey, that’s exactly what I observed in my kitchen this morning. My mom called it steam!” “Okay, everyone, come on in!” “Oh boy! It’s time for class!” “Yay!” “I heard that you all noticed that water changes depending on its temperature.” “So, what does temperature mean?” “Temperature is how you feel inside and outside. For example, you may feel warm or you may feel cold. Temperature is measured with a thermometer. And so we see that when the temperature falls below thirty-two degrees, water changes into ice.” “Yes, Teacher Susie! It becomes hard, like a rock!” “May is right, scientists! The water has changed to the solid state from the liquid state. “But if the temperature gets warmer and makes the thermometer rise above the freezing mark, then the ice melts and the water becomes liquid again. ” “Ooh . . .” “I have a question. What happens if you heat up water?” “The water will stay in the liquid state until it heats up to 212 degrees. Starting at that temperature, it boils and then changes into steam.” “And it floats away like a cloud.” “Right, Gabriela!” “Wow! Well, now we know there are three states of water! So, below the freezing mark, water is in the solid state. Above that, water is in the liquid state until it boils and changes into steam!” “Two scientists in the house!” “High-five! “ All right!” “Yeah!” “Here we are!” “Okay, okay, okay! What’s the big surprise?” “Just a minute. You’ll see. I put water and juice in the fridge . . .” “And it froze into ice pops?” “It’s gonna be so cool! “Hey, they didn’t turn into ice!” “Ah, the fridge isn’t cold enough to freeze water. “Oh well . . . “Sorry, Gabriela.” “Don’t worry, kids. I’ve got you covered! Here we go! Two ice pops right from the freezer, where the temperature is below freezing. ” “Yay!” “Mmm. . . .” “Thank you!” “Thank you!” “Now don’t let them melt.” “Bye, scientists!”

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Pure experiment. How schoolchildren create robots that will free cities from garbage

Often, garbage is dangerous - so much so that it harms even those who clean it up or dispose of it. In order to make cleaning more efficient and reduce the harm done to people, it is necessary to transfer this process to robots, the schoolchildren decided and invented devices that the TASS correspondent went to find out about.

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Imagine a workshop where metalworking machines work. Sharp metal shavings fly in all directions. But as soon as she falls to the floor, a small robot appears. It has ultrasonic sensors to determine where the garbage needs to be removed.

With a special brush, he collects chips in a tray, sorting them along the way: ferrous metal is separated from non-ferrous metal, so that later it can be easily recycled and used again. To do this, the robot has electromagnets. When the containers for metal waste in the back of the robot are filled, the machine itself goes to the specified place for unloading and also unloads the tanks on its own.

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Participants of the Ural project shift, Grigory Kurennoy — in the center

"The initial tests of the chassis and the garbage collection system have already been carried out. The general principle of the mechanism is quite simple: the robot moves along the water surface, collects garbage from it and delivers it to the unloading area. All the complexity is in the details, "explains Denis Denisov, team mentor, junior researcher at the Department of Engineering Production Organization of the Ural Federal University.

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"The most difficult thing was to develop a compact and hermetically sealed case for electronics, and then find the best place for its location," says Grigory Kurennoy, a student of the Specialized Educational and Scientific Center of the Ural Federal University (SATC UrFU), who worked in a team of Ural schoolchildren programming a robot. "At the moment, it is necessary to finalize the part of the system responsible for searching for garbage. And this seems to me the most interesting task - to develop the algorithm for searching for garbage floating on the water."

Of course, an industrial prototype is still a long way off.

"We don't even set such a task now. At the moment, it is necessary to check the effectiveness of the design solutions used. Some of them turned out to be successful, some not, and this is normal. The main thing is that successful finds in the future can be adopted and improved. About implementation project with the aim of making a profit is out of the question," says Denis Denisov.

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