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Mechanical Life; Non-biological organisms? BLASPHEMY!
Topic Started: Jul 30 2011, 06:55 PM (1,257 Views)
Russwallac
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"Ta-da!"
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Aye. My point exactly.
"We've started a cult about a guy's liver, of course we're going to demand that you give us an incredibly scientific zombie apocalypse." -Nanotyranus

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TAXESbutNano
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I'm going back to basics.
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Maybe we could start with something like the blown-off head from the stereo/funny decepticon that turned into the mobile phone, from the first CGI Transformers movie. Except with a smaller head.
It'd be funny, having a world of little robots dragging their heads around by their butts.
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Russwallac
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Heh...
"We've started a cult about a guy's liver, of course we're going to demand that you give us an incredibly scientific zombie apocalypse." -Nanotyranus

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TAXESbutNano
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BUTTDRAGGIN' AWESOMENESS. DON'T ARGUE WITH IT.
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Aug 3 2011, 04:27 PM
Shepard Commander.

When you get down to the very small scale, the line between machine and life is rather narrow. It's all molecules arranged in a certain way. What differentiates a mechanical lifeform from one that was simply made from scratch?
What is life, but a machine made by nature?
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Who wants to design the original butt-draggin' butt-kicka?
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