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December 22, 2003
Comparitive Review of Synthetic Creatures
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Let us examine fictional characters from antiquity through today based on the following: From these data we can conclude that creating synthetic creatures from organic materials result in more interesting personalities than we would get from inorganic ones. Stone in particular yields sexy yet uninteresting girlfriends. Based on this theory, we can posit that an artificial man made of twine would be witty and urbane, at least in comparison to his metallic brethren. We can also conclude that Science-generated creatures are in general scarier (or at least more powerful) than God-generated ones, especially when portrayed by Lee Majors. Thirdly, female robots are boring. It was really in the 20th century when the line between robotics and medicine began to blur, when it was possible to imagine a human being with mostly mechanical organs and limbs. But, if you include Voodoo dolls in this list, * The first use of the word 'robot' is from this play: R.U.R. (ROSSUM'S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS)
Material, Personality, Nature of Birth, and Date of idea conception.
What can we learn?
Synthetic Creature Material Personality Nature of Birth Date Talos Bronze Aggressive Fashioned by Hephaestus Like, 5,000 BC Galatea (Pygmalion) Stone Not much Aphrodite Intervention "" Golem Clay Creepy, vengful Rabbis & God 1579-ish Gingerbread Man Dough Rascally, with hubris ??? ??? Frankenstein's Monster Dead people Vengeful Science 1816 Tin Man, Scarecrow Straw, Tin Kind Witches 1900 Tik Tok Metal Stalwart Witches again? 1914 Pinocchio Wood Impish Fairy Intervention 1914 Marius, Sulla, Radius, Damon, et al. * Metal Hard-working Science 1921 The Robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis Metal Not much Science 1927 Loads of B-Movie robots Metal Sometimes good, usually bad Science 1950s - 1960s $6-million Man Dead Steve Austin + 'Bionics' Good guy Science 1974 See-Threepio (C3PO) Metal Gay Science 1977 Terminator Metal Jerk Science 1984
Synthetic creatures made from wood or plants tend to be spunky, while those made of rock or metal are true literalists, in that they adhere to Literalism.
well then...
I'm not sure, but it's related.
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Posted by mslaybau at December 22, 2003 02:23 AM
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