It would be considered good engineering practice to ensure that, if the drone body ingests food, that said food has some place to go that won’t cause severe mechanical issues with the body, as well as an easy way to remove it.
Hands up everyone who thinks the drone was designed by good engineers. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
There are good engineers, there are sane engineers, and then there are Sane Engineers of Mad Science. Dr Lee’s colleagues fire railguns at/through the break room.
Actually, because they are Mad Scientists, they may actually find a use for ingested fluids and solids; probably breaking them down to raw atoms for use in the internal fusion reactor powering the drone. Free fuel, long life, and the waste products are mostly radiation. No harm can come from that, right?
That’s just one of the things that pisses me off about the movie “A.I.”. When designing an android, particularly one that mimics a child, letting the oesophagus lead directly to uninsulated circuitry (i.e. the kid shorts out at one point as a result of eating) would seem to be a pretty major flaw.
Good as in the opposite of evil or good as in competent?
Because they made a robot near-indistinguishable from a human and perfectly remote-controlled across vast distances and through a significant wall of earth, so they’re probably one of the two.
Well, ducting the heat exhaust from all the secondary processor’s fans into the trachea seemed like a great idea at the time, so… ummm… that coffee…? Don’t.
If it’s designed with a full sensory suite the answer is yes.
As an infiltration unit it would need this if the operator needs to comment on any one thing in the environment, including disgust about the coffee that’s been on the burner too long.
Little House, gettin’ disappeared!
Gettin’ worse than at first I feared!
There’s a lot here, that we just don’t know …
‘Scuse me, while I puke this joe!
Little House … in Illinois …
Play that music and it will annoy!
‘Bots are sappy, but they’re sapient!
Or sentient? Dames, you know what I meant!
Mary … Gussie …
Make me … urpy …
Little House, in danger now!
Must help, but we’re not sure how!
We gotta get there, get there right away …
Now Unity’s bouncing as she shouts “Hooray!”
Well, it’s pretty clear from that strip that they know she was taken rather than killed. No, I don’t think Ginny told Skin Horse about that, but I wouldn’t consider that keeping secrets from them as she has no idea that the Cypress has any connection to them (and obviously she isn’t going to tell them of every weird thing that happens at Anasigma – it would take her years).
Tip means that someone is trying to make all the information on *something* (maybe something connected to the Old War) vanish.
You’d think there would be a subset of the internet with tons of mad science computers and AIs that would be playing this stuff over and over like it was Epic Meal Time, so it would be impossible to get rid of it.
But there IS a subset of the internet with tons of mad science computers and AIs that are playing this stuff over and over like it’s Epic Meal Time, so it’s impossible to get rid of it.
Seriously. Try surfing the other side of the Internet sometime. Those sites that appear way down in the three-hundredth page of search engine results on the keyword ‘conspiracy’, where the text is hot pink on dark green and nobody uses paragraph breaks?
You couldn’t shut them up if you tried. And believe me, people try.
I expect the “easy way to remove it” is probably pretty similar to the way humans do it. If one of those is ever expected to go undercover for more than a day or so, it would need emptying in the field and also people might start to get suspicious of someone who never goes to the bathroom.
Presumably something like R.Daneel’s system.
Could be worse – Pintsize randomly lets loose on the furniture when he’s been allowed to eat/drink.
Plus the massive motherboard damage when he gets into the cake batter.
It may just be that his heas spins round and round and he pukes like a bazooka.
I suppose now would be a horrible time to find out that the designers forgot to include an elimination system. ^_^;
I can see it now
“So that’s why violet always had such bad breath!”
It would be considered good engineering practice to ensure that, if the drone body ingests food, that said food has some place to go that won’t cause severe mechanical issues with the body, as well as an easy way to remove it.
Hands up everyone who thinks the drone was designed by good engineers. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
There are good engineers, there are sane engineers, and then there are Sane Engineers of Mad Science. Dr Lee’s colleagues fire railguns at/through the break room.
So, nick’s “exhaust port” is a railgun? Good to know.
Again, I watched Mystery Men Tuesday. There are worse things that can come out of an exhaust port.
Actually, because they are Mad Scientists, they may actually find a use for ingested fluids and solids; probably breaking them down to raw atoms for use in the internal fusion reactor powering the drone. Free fuel, long life, and the waste products are mostly radiation. No harm can come from that, right?
That’s just one of the things that pisses me off about the movie “A.I.”. When designing an android, particularly one that mimics a child, letting the oesophagus lead directly to uninsulated circuitry (i.e. the kid shorts out at one point as a result of eating) would seem to be a pretty major flaw.
THANK YOU!! I hated many things about that movie but that was one of the absolutely STUPIDEST things I’ve seen in any cyborg/android/etc. plotline.
As a bonus, it’s been a while but I don’t think he even swallowed before shorting. And that’s not a sentence I ever thought I’d type….
Good as in the opposite of evil or good as in competent?
Because they made a robot near-indistinguishable from a human and perfectly remote-controlled across vast distances and through a significant wall of earth, so they’re probably one of the two.
Well, ducting the heat exhaust from all the secondary processor’s fans into the trachea seemed like a great idea at the time, so… ummm… that coffee…? Don’t.
Does the drone have a sense of taste that it can transmit to its operator?
If it’s designed with a full sensory suite the answer is yes.
As an infiltration unit it would need this if the operator needs to comment on any one thing in the environment, including disgust about the coffee that’s been on the burner too long.
(TUNE: “Purple Haze”, Jimi Hendrix)
Little House, gettin’ disappeared!
Gettin’ worse than at first I feared!
There’s a lot here, that we just don’t know …
‘Scuse me, while I puke this joe!
Little House … in Illinois …
Play that music and it will annoy!
‘Bots are sappy, but they’re sapient!
Or sentient? Dames, you know what I meant!
Mary … Gussie …
Make me … urpy …
Little House, in danger now!
Must help, but we’re not sure how!
We gotta get there, get there right away …
Now Unity’s bouncing as she shouts “Hooray!”
Hooray! Aw yeah! Let’s go let’s go …
The review of Skin Horse is now up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNYgZK7uog
Please let us know if there’s anything about Skin Horse that you want edited out.
A.G.
Oh, awesome! Thank you!
Wait a second, the cypress is gone? You mean they didn’t stop the fire?
No, literally gone. It’s in Anasigma’s basement.
The Cypress apparently got, uh, swamp-napped. I don’t recall that Dr. Lee has passed this information on to any of the other major characters.
Well, it’s pretty clear from that strip that they know she was taken rather than killed. No, I don’t think Ginny told Skin Horse about that, but I wouldn’t consider that keeping secrets from them as she has no idea that the Cypress has any connection to them (and obviously she isn’t going to tell them of every weird thing that happens at Anasigma – it would take her years).
How could I not remember that?
Can Nick puke? Our thrillling B-plot for the storyline is introduced!
I’m not sure what Tip means by ‘Someone is trying to vanish this’. What ‘this’ is he talking about?
Tip means that someone is trying to make all the information on *something* (maybe something connected to the Old War) vanish.
You’d think there would be a subset of the internet with tons of mad science computers and AIs that would be playing this stuff over and over like it was Epic Meal Time, so it would be impossible to get rid of it.
Actually, I think Nick’s LJ involved him uploading himself directly to the net and running afoul of some AIs at some point…
But there IS a subset of the internet with tons of mad science computers and AIs that are playing this stuff over and over like it’s Epic Meal Time, so it’s impossible to get rid of it.
Seriously. Try surfing the other side of the Internet sometime. Those sites that appear way down in the three-hundredth page of search engine results on the keyword ‘conspiracy’, where the text is hot pink on dark green and nobody uses paragraph breaks?
You couldn’t shut them up if you tried. And believe me, people try.
WuseMajor: But no-one said the “easy way to remove it” wouldn’t be embarrasing!
Diane: That would be the Shadow Wiki Nick mentioned.
I expect the “easy way to remove it” is probably pretty similar to the way humans do it. If one of those is ever expected to go undercover for more than a day or so, it would need emptying in the field and also people might start to get suspicious of someone who never goes to the bathroom.
My guess is biofuel.
And I forget if they ever answer this so it’s a real guess!