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Tweak says, "...no dark side of the moon..."

Dr Sam Wilson (machinesrus) wrote in somerealityweb,
@ 2019-08-09 11:28:00

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The human body could really do with a developer's tool kit. Digitised logging data, so useful - until I need to create a dataset so I can strip out the irrelevant information and isolate the remaining commonalities to figure out exactly what happened when we were brought here.

Well. I figured out how to integrate nanotechnology into my nervous system, I'm sure I can figure out another way to get what I need.

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	futureimperfect 2019-08-09 01:10 am UTC (link)
	Think of the version control nightmare. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	machinesrus 2019-08-09 01:15 am UTC (link)
	Not to mention buggy firmware. The whole reason mine works so well is because it's so individually tailored, there's really not much scalability. Which is, to be fair, what I was aiming for. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	futureimperfect 2019-08-09 01:18 am UTC (link)
	Even the naturally occurring kind has buggy hard- and software. There's a reason it's called practicing medicine. How long did it take to integrate? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

machinesrus
2019-08-09 01:31 am UTC (link)

And half of it hasn't even been properly studied.

Depends where you count the start and end at. I had a few different ideas of how I might be able to control the wings best and that ended up being the most promising. From when I really started working on the designs until the first successful test? Probably sixteen months. But there was a lot of tinkering and recalibrating after that as well as actually physically adjusting to the new inputs. In a better world they could have been fantastic for prosthetics.

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	futureimperfect 2019-08-09 01:36 am UTC (link)
	Wings. Wow. Was there any rejection, during the initial testing or afterward? Is this too personal? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	machinesrus 2019-08-09 01:57 am UTC (link)
	It's fine. I had to be more cautious at home because of the risk of things being misused. A lot of papers never getting published, a couple times I straight up destroyed research. Not in the sense of an immune response, but there were definitely some strange neurological reactions. Synesthesia, getting other limbs mixed up, nerve pain... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	futureimperfect 2019-08-09 02:04 am UTC (link)
	Still, some people would be squeamish about their own medical details. A shame about that research, though. Interesting. Yea, I can see that, the nerves never had six limbs before, it makes sense they had to be retrained. At least there's neuroplasticity. Has it sorted out in the time since? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

machinesrus
2019-08-09 02:20 am UTC (link)

More that I was squeamish about military-funded human experimentation. Most of what I gave them was more medically focused.

I didn't jump straight to extra limbs, but it was still pretty intense. I ended up having to program them to fade the connection right out when they got input showing nothing was attached, otherwise I would have had to choose between making it permanent and starting the whole thing from scratch. Now it's just a kind of twitchy feeling for a little bit after I take them off.

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	futureimperfect 2019-08-09 02:25 am UTC (link)
	They certainly didn't deserve what you burnt, but it would have been fun to read here. And they support your weight? I can't imagine how big the wingspan must have to be, given the average human male's weight... 7 meters or so? Which would end up too heavy to function, especially out of metal. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	machinesrus 2019-08-09 03:00 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I know. I got ripped off timeline-wise. Bulk metallic glasses. The specific alloy combination and advantages of the shaping process make it a hell of a lot lighter than any traditional metal strong enough for something like that would be. Full expansion's about twenty two feet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	futureimperfect 2019-08-09 03:07 am UTC (link)
	That's absolutely fascinating. ~~I bet your m~~ Thanks for indulging my curiosity. So if you knew what happened when we were brought here, you'd... reverse engineer it? Be satisfied you figured it out? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	machinesrus 2019-08-09 03:11 am UTC (link)
	Definitely reverse it, for the people who want to go back. I probably wouldn't touch it otherwise, all the experts we have on interdimensional physics have gone completely nuts. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	futureimperfect 2019-08-09 03:16 am UTC (link)
	Are we sure we can go back? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	machinesrus 2019-08-09 03:18 am UTC (link)
	Nope. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	futureimperfect 2019-08-09 03:20 am UTC (link)
	Good. Certainty doesn't go well with this kind of thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	machinesrus 2019-08-09 03:23 am UTC (link)
	Oh believe me, I am fully aware of how ridiculously impossible this is. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	futureimperfect 2019-08-09 03:26 am UTC (link)
	Lots of things seem impossible until they happen. Besides, it's something to do. (Reply to this) (Parent)