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WCDT Strips 3456-3460 (10th to 14th April 2017)
Perfectly Reasonable:
Susan Calvin : first robopsychologist.
Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham: first robopsychotherapist.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Akima on 11 Apr 2017, 15:57 ---
--- Quote from: Storel on 11 Apr 2017, 14:16 ---You know, once I found out that a positron is just an anti-matter electron, I realized that Asimov's positronic brains didn't make any sense. Anything you can do with positrons, you can do with electrons much more easily since you don't have to worry about building your computer out of antimatter...
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You mean a SF author employed technobabble that wasn't 100% scientifically accurate!?!?! I am shocked, shocked I tell you! You'll be telling me next that the spaceships in The Expanse should have large heat-radiators...
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In this case, I would be very surprised if Asimov himself didn't know perfectly well that he was spouting technobabble. He had a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, and taught at Boston University for many years
Storel:
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 11 Apr 2017, 21:01 ---
--- Quote from: Akima on 11 Apr 2017, 15:57 ---
--- Quote from: Storel on 11 Apr 2017, 14:16 ---You know, once I found out that a positron is just an anti-matter electron, I realized that Asimov's positronic brains didn't make any sense. Anything you can do with positrons, you can do with electrons much more easily since you don't have to worry about building your computer out of antimatter...
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You mean a SF author employed technobabble that wasn't 100% scientifically accurate!?!?! I am shocked, shocked I tell you! You'll be telling me next that the spaceships in The Expanse should have large heat-radiators...
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In this case, I would be very surprised if Asimov himself didn't know perfectly well that he was spouting technobabble. He had a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, and taught at Boston University for many years
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Yes, he was aware that it was technobabble. He says so in one of the volumes of his autobiography. (Sorry I can't remember which volume; I read them both a long time ago.)
BenRG:
Basically, what it comes down to is that Bubbles has serious anger issues and serious betrayal issues. Both of these are entirely understandable. However, you can't deny the truth of what Hannelore said: Faye really is experiencing a child-like excitement here and you have to give a degree of understanding to that too.
What is needed is for Faye and Bubbles to actually tell each other these things. Of course, neither of them are good with social stuff so I don't imagine something like that would happen quickly or easily.
Meanwhile, they really need to get Bubbles' punching bag back.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 11 Apr 2017, 06:32 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 11 Apr 2017, 03:33 ---She had to specify "old refrigerators" because newer models in the QCverse not only have feelings but talk about them all the damned time.
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Nah, I bet they just switch chasses. It'd be too dark to have sentient beings in a dump because they no longer work right. :(
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You might want to remind Dr. Thomas Light and the other citizens of his city about that point.
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