Like the idea of Big G's robot conspirator, L. Well, rather the passive manequin as co-conspirator I suppose, coming to be far-seeing, practical at planning stages. Big G taking advice from the shop floor. I foresee a series of these. How eyes were limited to front-seers etc. Or a series on the first failur models or the streamlined post-humans.
Bill
> On 27 Apr 2014, at 12:23 am, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hands on head! said God and the robot complied.
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> No, said God slowly, surveying the robot's work; I cannot imagine that
> working.
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> What about, said the robot, at the top corners?
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> I don't see how that would work, said God.
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> Have the bit underneath the head stick out a bit at the sides and then put
> the hands there. I mean, went on the robot, on the end of something. Maybe
> something like the legs, flexible and muscled, but thinner; and then the
> hands on the end. As with the feet.
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> Feet! said God. Huh. They're just to make it stable. Oh ok try it, try it.
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> The robot shuddered briefly and the virtual mannikin beside it assumed the
> shape of a human being.
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> Oh! said God. Not bad at all. OK, print that.
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