Might it give them a way of getting a better look around above water much like the spy hopping behavior of larger cetaceans?

Well it made me smile.

Sounded interesting, so I started watching but I fell into the uncanny valley when his skull started stretching and compressing in an attempt to portray expressions.

Whoa, the walls are melting!

Well that is macabre.

I, for one, would like to see this puppet technology combined with the BigDog robot to make a quadruped dino.
Although I must say that a buzzing two stroke dinosaur would be rather odd.

she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom.

Ew.

Here is a video that sort of corroborates raincoaster.
You can see the flashes from lightning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjOxXizk4w&feature=related
Anyone here read Arabic?

I think it may be a stonemason tool to mark out an area.

Realistic at a glance, but it falls into the uncanny valley if you look at it too long.

He used a miniature boomerang inside the space station which is pressurized with air.

Emptyminded is right. The blade and handle core are all one piece of metal, and it is just a trick of perspective.

Does this remind anyone else of the Grey Goo scenario?

I am a fan of this authors work; This is stolen from Celarent.
This flash belongs on
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/307402
or at his site,
http://terminal71.com/flash/mario.php
Of course feel free to suck up starterupsteve's (the thief) bandwidth by viewing it there. I just wanted Celarent to get credit.

Interesting, but there are two barriers to using this for fuel production.

The first is to figure out how to attach the protein to some sort of substrate so that it can be used in a solar array (I doubt this will be difficult).

The other is a little harder: separating the dissolved hydrogen and oxygen from the water.