HRogge Wrote:Unless this is one of the quirks/handwavium abilities... they can trick any scanner or 'wave detector into false negatives: To detect the handwavium you would have to actually cut then open and look for it...robkelk Wrote:Not that way, no... but use a bio-processor instead of a silicon processor and it becomes quite possible. There's even precedent for it.Yeah... but there would be still lots of (detectable) Handwavium involved. ^^
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[Story][Season 0] In The Bluff
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 robkelk Wrote:Firefox+AVG just ate all my text...Ace Dreamer Wrote:The Angels appear to he human to all medical tests. Flesh and blood brains. No detectable processors. Not even biomodded.HRogge Wrote:Is this even possible in Fenspace? Bio-AIs with processors in "pocket dimensions" without any handwavium involved a detector could smell?Not that way, no... but use a bio-processor instead of a silicon processor and it becomes quite possible. There's even precedent for it. But, yes, no handwavium, and, any processor, inorganic or organic, implemented however, is well hidden. Arthur would probably be polite to her. They might have some interesting tech discussions. And maybe discuss AI rights. P.S. Local physics supports pocket dimensions, for Skuld's work, anyway... Handwavium (currently) doesn't. -- "It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind HRogge Wrote:Not if you do things just right. The handwavium does its work, and in the process converts itself into any required structures or consumes itself. The "Top Gear" use a bucket isn't the 'cleanest' of processes. [grin]robkelk Wrote:Not that way, no... but use a bio-processor instead of a silicon processor and it becomes quite possible. There's even precedent for it.Yeah... but there would be still lots of (detectable) Handwavium involved. ^^ -- "It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind Rakhasa Wrote:Interesting they don't (generally) show signs of have super human speed of thinking...Ace Dreamer Wrote:She wouldn't really stab you. Not unless she was sure you were a real-life, not a cosplaying, vampire, that is. [grin]That was sort of my point. They are AI... but they do not act, think, or even use their Ai parts; for all intents and purposes, they are intelligent humans. So all that extra computing power... does it just stand idle? Yes, I remembered Oscar's vampireness. [grin] I remembered blood being involved, but not the exact logic - I'm (currently) claiming Arthur dodged the biomod bullet, this time. -- "It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind Ace Dreamer Wrote:Yes, I remembered Oscar's vampireness. [grin]Well, it would not be Arthur the one blood modded, it's the AI he created with that blood... And for the process, I exagerated for dramatic purposes: In one of his first experiments in solving solid wavium in water, he had a papercut, and noticed that it solved a lot faster, so he began to use his blood on purpose to speed the proces. Anyone who knows about handwavium (wich Oscar was not, then) would know than this would not end well... So a few days later, there is the inevitable accident, and he would wake up without a pulse.
You might choose to believe that the blood helped the handwavium dissolve not just the information off the personal notes and recordings that Arthur put in it, but also some essence of Arthur's character...
It might be unclear whether some of those records being unique, without copies elsewhere, could be relevant... "Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Fun_Ball Does that sound like handwavium, to you? [grin] -- "It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind |
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