Cybrids being intellectual creatures, how would it even work? It's not like they have compatible genetic material---there'd have to be something interesting indeed.``I have spoken to Dr. Ellicott on this matter; he offered sage advice, and to study our offspring.''
Oof ``Did you ask him whether normal kicks hurt so much?''
``Top Secret!''
FWIW, given the Singularity and the number of robot-human relationships in the comic (both actual and potential), Jeph will probably eventually address the first cross-species child at some point, even if only with the characters discussing an announcement in the news.
I think Bubbles and Faye will adopt.
``I have spoken to Dr. Ellicott on this matter; he offered sage advice, and to study our offspring.''
Oof ``Did you ask him whether normal kicks hurt so much?''
``Top Secret!''
FWIW, given the Singularity and the number of robot-human relationships in the comic (both actual and potential), Jeph will probably eventually address the first cross-species child at some point, even if only with the characters discussing an announcement in the news.
Cybrids being intellectual creatures, how would it even work? It's not like they have compatible genetic material---there'd have to be something interesting indeed.
...Cylons?
I mean it’s been what? Two decades without even pregnancy scare? I don’t think babies are a plot line QC wants to go into.I dunno, I can see a future plot line with May telling Sven she’s late and him panicking… she’d find that hilarious, though I’m not sure anyone else would.
I mean it’s been what? Two decades without even pregnancy scare? I don’t think babies are a plot line QC wants to go into.
Yes, please?
Meh.Yes, please?
Seconded. I'd betray humanity for her.
You mean they could have a nanomachines son?Nanomechanismal enhancing mind, body (wondering what's such psyche (https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,34712.msg1450033.html#msg1450033)) always thought wooful. How's Newfriend ported Azuma to in Bubbles (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3396)? Reversile?---more Azuma-hobby govsecret-ingeniery?
You mean they could have a nanomachines son?I suspect a daughter would be easier based on some vertebrate forms of parthenogenesis, but yes.
I'm afraid I don't really understand. I was just riffing on Senator Armstrong and Gyrre's suggestion of nanite offspring.I think it was that it's cliche.
I'm afraid I don't really understand. I was just riffing on Senator Armstrong and Gyrre's suggestion of nanite offspring.I think it was that it's cliche.(click to show/hide)
Cybrid? Isn't that a word from Dan Simmons's Hyperion saga? Brawne Lamia actually had a child with a cybrid, if I remember correctly...
To be fair, it wouldn't take much for me to betray humanity. Pretty much any woman could get me to do it.
my case, I'm misanthropic enough, that I'd do it for a house plant, just because they're better company than most people.
Fair enough, but if you can wipe out humanity and also get a hot robot gf, might as well go for the whole kit and kaboodle.
my case, I'm misanthropic enough, that I'd do it for a house plant, just because they're better company than most people.
I have to remind myself that most news reports are skewed towards "bleeds leads", but there still are too many idiots out there. Just because it may be humanoid does not mean it is human.
my case, I'm misanthropic enough, that I'd do it for a house plant, just because they're better company than most people.
I have to remind myself that most news reports are skewed towards "bleeds leads", but there still are too many idiots out there. Just because it may be humanoid does not mean it is human.
My misanthropy is derived entirely from first hand experience, which has been ample. No supplemental data via the news is required.
My misanthropy is also tempered by my love of/fascination with women and my extroversive deep-seated need for human contact lest I be left alone with only my thoughts, which are of such a nature as I would wish on no one, even those who gave rise to said misanthropy.
Total Perspective Vortex, perhaps?
More like, "This is your significance to the cosmos".Yeah, that could work, too.
I'm a bit late to the conversation but find the mention of extra metals amusing yet annoying every time it is mentioned where it seems that everyone assumes these is no metal in a human to begin with. So how many have forgotten basic biochemistry or even had any in high-school?
There is also the assumption that cybernetic entities are mostly metal when most in existence in our reality are constructed from polymers and some ceramics and metals.
The cores are of course silicon, with the more advanced examples using Field-Programmable-Gate-Arrays gluing together their multiple processor cores.
An except from a medical journal
Among the metals that are currently known to be essential for normal biological functions in humans are sodium (Na), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), and calcium (Ca) that belong to main group of elements, and vanadium (V), chromium (Cr), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), molybdenum (Mo), and cadmium (Cd) that belong to transition metal group of elements in periodic table. Among these metals, the most notable that usually exist in the form of ions, are Fe, Co, Ni, Ca, Cu, Zn, and Cr. The deficiency of Fe and Co leads to anemia, that of Cu leads to brain and heart diseases and anemia, that of Zn leads to growth retardation and skin changes, that of Ca leads to bone deterioration, and that of Cr reduces the glucose tolerance.
Make note about Calcium is the main constituent of the bones making up a skeleton.
For some reason people forget that this element is a metal. Most likely because it is encountered as a mineral when combined with carbonates in bones, limestone or water scale.
Just a rough note on data I found online - more up to date numbers may vary - A healthy mammals calcium content is on the order of 1% to 1,5% of total body mass.Honestly hadn't thought of thar. That's a damn good idea!
A little rough ... okay very rough .... calculation based on an average grown human being 62kg would give us a minimum trace amount of 620g of the metal.
The flip side is that if nanobot-machienes are involved in the development/assembly of the child then those machines would be capable of transporting the more problematic rare elements without endangering the mother or child in the process. My supposition would be a carbon matrix to isolate the individual atoms in the carbon lattice equivalent of an egg carton.
/geekout
I mean it’s been what? Two decades without even pregnancy scare? I don’t think babies are a plot line QC wants to go into.
A true cyborg is a biological life-form that has synthetic parts that mimic, augment or replace biological parts (as in The Six-Million Dollar Man or the Deus Ex franchise).
A true cyborg is a biological life-form that has synthetic parts that mimic, augment or replace biological parts (as in The Six-Million Dollar Man or the Deus Ex franchise).
Does Clinton count?
Why couldn't a cyborg be a machine internally with a living skin on the outside? It would require two kinds of ingestion and probably some esoteric engineering to support the blood stream the skin needs, but the only new technology required would be the ability to code the skin so it grows the right colors, shapes, and textures. Things like nipples, ears, etc. as it grows over the framework. Such a skin would make URs life more difficult as they'd have to take blood-borne pathogen precautions to work on such a creatures mechanical bits, but they need to put up a private work area anyway. Can you imagine May in such a chassis?
A true cyborg is a biological life-form that has synthetic parts that mimic, augment or replace biological parts (as in The Six-Million Dollar Man or the Deus Ex franchise).
Does Clinton count?
Here you raise an interesting point: What is the difference between a cyborg implant and a prosthesis? I don't know if there is a widely-accepted definition but, in my view, a true cybernetic appliance is one that is directly wired into the user's nervous system enabling it to be controlled by and sensory data fed directly back into their brain. Clinton's robo-hand does seem to meet those criteria. So, unless you want to add another criterion such as 'percentage of body volume replaced', the answer seems to be 'yes'.
A true cyborg is a biological life-form that has synthetic parts that mimic, augment or replace biological parts (as in The Six-Million Dollar Man or the Deus Ex franchise).
Does Clinton count?
Here you raise an interesting point: What is the difference between a cyborg implant and a prosthesis? I don't know if there is a widely-accepted definition but, in my view, a true cybernetic appliance is one that is directly wired into the user's nervous system enabling it to be controlled by and sensory data fed directly back into their brain. Clinton's robo-hand does seem to meet those criteria. So, unless you want to add another criterion such as 'percentage of body volume replaced', the answer seems to be 'yes'.
There are those that consider humans with glasses/contacts to be cyborgs.
I can't seem to find the speech with a cursory search, but theirs a transhumanist's quote about humans becoming cyborgs upon the first sharpened stick being picked up.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure it was Aaron Diaz in a twitter post prior to her nervous breakdown while writing Dark Science? But I'm not 100%.
[BTW, she seems to be doing better mentally now and is trying to get the comic back on track now that she's figured out she is a she.]