While a skydiving coach in the 1990s, he rigged up a primitive computer simulation of dives and dive formations.
Now, researchers say they've come up with primitive robots that can self-replicate.
From Chiang Mai, visitors spend around four hours in a songtaew, a covered truck with two benches in the back, then two more hours in the back of a 4x4 driving up a primitive road.
He was also developing another interest: in 1982, he bought his first computer, a somewhat primitive Timex Sinclair that he hooked up to a black-and-white TV.
In northern Albania, the primitive infrastructure is creaking, though a new refugee camp is going up farther south.
Two long-beaked echidnas, primitive egg-laying mammals, even allowed scientists to pick them up and bring them back to their camp to be studied, he added.
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The spacecraft's data indicates the asteroid has a very primitive surface - rather like the chondritic meteorites that are sometimes picked up on Earth and which are assumed to have come from bodies that experienced no melting or differentiation.
As they report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, the 160m-year-old Darwinopterus, which has been dug up in Liaoning Province, catches the flying reptiles in transition between the primitive, long-tailed forms exemplified by Rhamphorhynchus and the advanced, almost tailless creatures typified by Pteranodon.
It passed up chances in 1995 to enter the digital market early, sticking with more primitive analog designs, because it felt sure that analog's 43 million customers couldn't be wrong.
In today's game, in which speed and agility are as highly prized as bulk and brawn, the Welsh strategy of rounding up a bunch of behemoths and squeezing them into red jerseys might appear to be a primitive tactic.
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