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Humans using Chassies - Shower thought
improvnerd:
See also: Daleks.
Kugai:
Actually BenRG, Hypatias body was a full cybernetic one that she could control and 'Transfer' herself into via a short range wide band Comlink system. Range outside the ship was limited though the exact figure is not given, but the body had full sensory input and the range issue could probably be solved over time and tech advancement. Hypatia herself remained in the Ship Shell.
BenRG:
I did say that the body was controlled by cyber-presence. I was just using Tia as an example of a transhuman who used different 'bodies' for different needs.
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 09 Mar 2016, 06:33 ---In The War of the Worlds, H G Wells' narrator speculated that the squid-like Martians were actually a distant evolutionary descendent of a humanoid species. He suggested that the growth of technology and the ability of technology to replace biological functions with far more efficient synthetic augmentation would trigger an evolutionary drift towards optimisation of the form to only those aspects of the biology that were critically needed. This was, in the Martians' case, the brain, the senses and the hands (which evolved into the clustered tentacles).
The Martians, Wells put it "... were heads, just heads".
What is the relevance to this thread? Wells went on to speculate about a form of life that would 'put on bodies' according to need, these bodies being distant conceptual descendants of something as simple as the bicycle or walking stick. This could be applied to the idea of this topic. Imagine a human reduced to its most indivisible component - the brain and possibly the spinal cord, that could be transferred between various specialised chassis depending on need and the being's wishes.
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One of the "villain" races in E.R. Burroughs' Barsoom series was made up of big brained heads with spider legs that could induce specially made headless bodies to put them on their necks so they could walk around. Yeah, they were way creepy, especially when one of them sexually assaulted one of the heroines.
katsmeat:
--- Quote from: WareWolf on 10 Mar 2016, 13:06 ---One of the "villain" races in E.R. Burroughs' Barsoom series was made up of big brained heads with spider legs that could induce specially made headless bodies to put them on their necks so they could walk around. Yeah, they were way creepy, especially when one of them sexually assaulted one of the heroines.
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I always find remarkable how many villain alien species in old pulp SF are into (from their PoV) bestiality.
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