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Death Metal, Life Metal ...
is good thing. when we accidentally make evil sentient robots, we can go all biological warfare on them now!
Wow.
i can see this going very very wrong. :lulz:
Yay!
Is it weird that I wondering how we could use this to make cybernetics? Or as a basis for Transformer fiction?
Quote from: Donald Coyote on September 18, 2011, 09:34:45 PM
Wow.
i can see this going very very wrong. :lulz:
ROBOT ZOMBIES! This is gonna be epic.
Quote from: Luna on September 18, 2011, 10:05:09 PM
Quote from: Donald Coyote on September 18, 2011, 09:34:45 PM
Wow.
i can see this going very very wrong. :lulz:
ROBOT ZOMBIES! This is gonna be epic.
An infectious plague that turns people into computer eating monsters? :lulz:
Quote from: Donald Coyote on September 18, 2011, 10:07:25 PM
Quote from: Luna on September 18, 2011, 10:05:09 PM
Quote from: Donald Coyote on September 18, 2011, 09:34:45 PM
Wow.
i can see this going very very wrong. :lulz:
ROBOT ZOMBIES! This is gonna be epic.
An infectious plague that turns people into computer eating monsters? :lulz:
Living nanobots, infecting humans, and using them as transport systems to spread themselves...
Quote from: Luna on September 18, 2011, 10:09:42 PM
Quote from: Donald Coyote on September 18, 2011, 10:07:25 PM
Quote from: Luna on September 18, 2011, 10:05:09 PM
Quote from: Donald Coyote on September 18, 2011, 09:34:45 PM
Wow.
i can see this going very very wrong. :lulz:
ROBOT ZOMBIES! This is gonna be epic.
An infectious plague that turns people into computer eating monsters? :lulz:
Living nanobots, infecting humans, and using them as transport systems to spread themselves...
YOU HACKED MY EYES!!!! YOU BASTARDS!!!!!!!
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(http://www.godoon.com/gallery/media/ghost-in-the-shell-standalone-complex/batou/482fe192-d81e-11df-8228-a8bfc396a36f.jpg)
It all started off so innocently. Pure science, for the sake of science. Could life evolve without carbon? Is it possible for life to exist made purely out of metal? They started the research at the University of Glasgow. Tungsten, oxygen, phosporus, microchips, assembled with the capacity to reproduce themselves, organize themselves.
It was Dok Hamish Howl at the University of Tuscon that came up with the innovation. Some say it was a stroke genius... Others vow he was off his nut on cactus at the time. Nobody knows for sure, and Dok isn't talking, not after the escape.
They're devilishly hard to detect, we all know that. They get into the bloodstream. Once they reach the brain, there's no way to remove them without killing the host. And they spread... Any body fluid will do it. Spitting in someone's eye is now a whole new level of terror-inducing.
They communicate on some level that we... that humans haven't figured out, yet. They can sense each other, work together. They can't access what's in the brains they occupy, but they're learning. They're learning, so fast, they're getting harder and harder to detect. Motor skills are improving, they hardly shamble any more, once they've threaded through an entire system, and they remind each other to eat, drink, to keep the bodies working.
We're losing, gentlemen, and there's nothing to do about it.
Tuesday morning
They got Fred last night. We will never know how, and we don't know for how long she's been one, but it's obvious that she is one of them now. We caught her hacking into the water supply. Had to boil the entire lake. We aren't even sure if that works anymore.
Run with it. :)
Quote from: Luna on September 18, 2011, 09:16:27 PM
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Life made
entirely
out of metal, you
say?
(http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3302/985vyvyan150150x180.jpg)
Friday afternoon
Out on patrol. We shot a deer. It was to a deer what semi is to a pickup. It had a strange metallic sheen on it antlers and hooves. Took 10 rounds from Twid's old elephant gun to knock it down.
Don't know why we were surprised. Seems obvious really. More stable locomotion and less higher functions to override. The things I saw during the autopsy were not meant to be seen by human eyes.
Quote from: Donald Coyote on September 18, 2011, 11:26:54 PMThe things I saw during the autopsy were not meant to be seen by human eyes.
[constructive criticism] sorry but this is a cop-out. How can a deer infected with metal bacteria contain stuff not meant to be seen by human eyes? Mercury blood? Circuit board organs? "Not meant to be seen by human eyes" gives me association with the eldritch, the paranormal, transdimensional, Lovecraft-style horrors, etc. But not cybernetic deer.
They already did this when they created Rob Halford.
Quote from: Triple Zero on September 19, 2011, 12:21:21 PM
Quote from: Donald Coyote on September 18, 2011, 11:26:54 PMThe things I saw during the autopsy were not meant to be seen by human eyes.
[constructive criticism] sorry but this is a cop-out. How can a deer infected with metal bacteria contain stuff not meant to be seen by human eyes? Mercury blood? Circuit board organs? "Not meant to be seen by human eyes" gives me association with the eldritch, the paranormal, transdimensional, Lovecraft-style horrors, etc. But not cybernetic deer.
Thanks, when my brain is less addled I will do some rewrites.
from this small article, i don't quite see how they make the headline claim.
they say they are using "metallic elements like tungsten bonded with oxygen and phosphorus."
So, it's not entirely metals? it's just that they are using some transition metals that we normally don't see used in life?
I, for one, welcome our new Tungsten overlords.
huh.
from wiki:
QuoteTungsten is the only metal from the third transition series that is known to occur in biomolecules, where it is used in a few species of bacteria. It is the heaviest element known to be used by any living organism. However, tungsten interferes with molybdenum and copper metabolism, and is somewhat toxic to animal life.
Quote from: Iptuous on September 19, 2011, 04:32:26 PM
from this small article, i don't quite see how they make the headline claim.
they say they are using "metallic elements like tungsten bonded with oxygen and phosphorus."
So, it's not entirely metals? it's just that they are using some transition metals that we normally don't see used in life?
I'm assuming they used metallic oxygen.
I'd rather a life-form made entirely of punk.
Quote from: Cain on September 19, 2011, 09:48:54 PM
I'd rather a life-form made entirely of punk.
:lulz:
Quote from: Cain on September 19, 2011, 09:48:54 PM
I'd rather a life-form made entirely of punk.
I've been racking my brain for a good pun on these lines, well done! :)
Interesting...I mean, when you consider that many of the so called nutrients we feed our bodies to keep strong (like calcium) are metal...it would be very interesting to see them take on a life of their own.
Quote from: Triple Zero on September 19, 2011, 10:02:54 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 19, 2011, 09:48:54 PM
I'd rather a life-form made entirely of punk.
I've been racking my brain for a good pun on these lines, well done! :)
Of course, what I said is in fact an oxymoron. You cant create new lifeforms out of punk, because Punk is Dead.