Lightning Rod Gets The Zot

The Poet's Eye ^ | Lightning Rod

[Darksheare]

Oddly, no.
Haven’t seen that movie.

[NicknamedBob]

"My luck they’d clone several copies of me and I’d either have to hunt them down, or they’d come looking for ‘the original’."

Clones won't have your memories. Without memories, they would just be meat-sacks.

So, in addition to learning how to grow tissues of various sorts, blood cells, muscle cells, neurons, and bone, and learning how to knit them together, we'll have to figure out how to program and animate them.

Now here's a thought; what happens if your memories get stuck into someone else's clone?

Let's say you paid to be rejuvenated, and due to a mix-up, you get not only a new healthy and younger body, but one that has a completely different shape and appearance.

Suppose, in your instance, that this new body is female.

I guess you'd be in a conundrum, hum?

[Darksheare]

Memories are stored in the brain cells via chemical and physical methods.
Nanites of sufficient ‘smarts’ may be able to copy these and reproduce them.

And what you can copy, you can alter, and what you can alter you can similarly ontrol.

[Tax-chick]

Yes, James has trouble keeping a secret.

[NicknamedBob]

"And what you can copy, you can alter, and what you can alter you can similarly control."

Boy, howdy! I'm aware of that!

I could write a book about it. (No, wait ...)

My dilemma was that only a computer could keep track of all the intricate details necessary to complete a transfer of memories.

Which ends up with the computer being ceded vast power and authority. No matter how you try to prevent it.

[HKMk23]

Suppose, in your instance, that this new body is female.

Uh, I dunno. Is she hot?

If so, I'd at least have viable options when told to go !@#% myself.

[Darksheare]

Eva and the Slaver incident.
But she doesn’t count on the resilience of the human spirit and how UNdesigned humans are for being controlled.

[Darksheare]

Worst case scenario, you are copied into two bodies, one male, one female.
And you meet yourself.
*Grrrr!*

[NicknamedBob]

"Worst case scenario, you are copied into two bodies, one male, one female.
And you meet yourself."

It happened in David Gerrold's "The Man Who Folded Himself".

David Gerrold is weirder than Darksheare.

[Darksheare]

Possibly.
I haven’t had anything published yet, jury is still out.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Are the clean-up crews not tending to the leavings?

I dusted Friday!

(Don't ask which Friday. I don't think it was this year. But it might have been this decade.)

[NicknamedBob]

" Are the clean-up crews not tending to the leavings?"

"I dusted Friday!"

I may have a partial explanation, if not a solution.

As is well-known, the "lower levels" follow the same warming and cooling cycle as any other rotating hardware in space. We rotate many times a day, plunging our "underfloor" fundamental attributes into searing solar heat, and interplanetary sub-zero cold at a greatly accelerated rate.

Mention was made upthread about lichen, with the implication that simple organisms would behave in this environment the way we have come to expect that they would behave on Earth.

But that may not be true. With the rapid temperature cycling in the most remote areas, an energy source is made available for the plain and simple, as well as a few extremophiles.

They could be adapting to a very different environment, and the rapid accumulation of curious material could be the result.

I do not have any suggestions about how to ameliorate this process, should it turn out to be problematic. We will have to keep monitoring the situation.

Office of the Imperial Weatherman

[sionnsar]

Not sure when I’ll be back either but IT guy called and thinks he might get it shipped to me by Tuesday morning. I am able to read and post from cellphone but it is limiting. And not fast,here in the Virginia mountains. Which are beautiful!

[sionnsar]

Mono? It used to be called Hi-Fi, not mono.

[sionnsar]

Mono? It used to be called Hi-Fi, not mono.

[sionnsar]

Mono? It used to be called Hi-Fi, not mono.

[sionnsar]

Mono? It used to be called Hi-Fi, not mono.

[NicknamedBob]

And then there was “quadraphonic”.

[sionnsar]

Oh the joys of an unreliable confection. connection! Swype doesn’t seem to know that word. Or Arrgh!

[sionnsar]

Oh the joys of an unreliable confection. connection! Swype doesn’t seem to know that word. Or Arrgh!