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destinystrings2013-05-15 05:16 pm
stringmods) wrote in destinystrings2013-05-15 05:16 pm
The Observers and the Observed
Who: Everyone interested in .~*STARS*~.
Where: Sagittarius labs; topmost floor.
Summary: The renamed Ophiuchus Observatory has been opened to the public, as well as volunteers willing to scan the heavens. Perhaps the answer to the Zodiac Effect truly does lie within the stars...?
Music: LAW
Warnings: Space, also science.
When the Visitors had first seen the Sagittarius Labs last September, the Anoli attacking made it difficult for many to truly get a grasp for the building itself. They were told that the fourth floor connected to the roof, which had been breached, and that they would have to defend the labs.
That was only mostly true.
The building had been constructed with demon-studying in mind, and was thus nearly impossible to navigate on one's own. Hallways went to nowhere, and space did not behave as one would have liked. The roof, for example, was truly connected to the fourth floor. But the fourth floor was not truly only one of four floors.
The deception could be easily noticed from the roof of the Sagittarius Labs, which now housed the renamed Ophiuchus Observatory. The building was much, much taller than it seemed on the outside- it seemed to tower over all the other buildings in the area. The observatory had been used exclusively for keeping an eye on the moon phases before, but with the increased threat of the Zodiac Effect, it had been upgraded to a much more proper catadioptric telescope. To aid citizens and visitors alike in getting to the observatory without having to undergo complex navigation, a service elevator had been installed to lead right to the domed roof. The machine was simple to use, and did not require any training to use- the only request the labs had was that people report any peculiarities they observed in the night sky.
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Where: Sagittarius labs; topmost floor.
Summary: The renamed Ophiuchus Observatory has been opened to the public, as well as volunteers willing to scan the heavens. Perhaps the answer to the Zodiac Effect truly does lie within the stars...?
Music: LAW
Warnings: Space, also science.
When the Visitors had first seen the Sagittarius Labs last September, the Anoli attacking made it difficult for many to truly get a grasp for the building itself. They were told that the fourth floor connected to the roof, which had been breached, and that they would have to defend the labs.
That was only mostly true.
The building had been constructed with demon-studying in mind, and was thus nearly impossible to navigate on one's own. Hallways went to nowhere, and space did not behave as one would have liked. The roof, for example, was truly connected to the fourth floor. But the fourth floor was not truly only one of four floors.
The deception could be easily noticed from the roof of the Sagittarius Labs, which now housed the renamed Ophiuchus Observatory. The building was much, much taller than it seemed on the outside- it seemed to tower over all the other buildings in the area. The observatory had been used exclusively for keeping an eye on the moon phases before, but with the increased threat of the Zodiac Effect, it had been upgraded to a much more proper catadioptric telescope. To aid citizens and visitors alike in getting to the observatory without having to undergo complex navigation, a service elevator had been installed to lead right to the domed roof. The machine was simple to use, and did not require any training to use- the only request the labs had was that people report any peculiarities they observed in the night sky.
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Yes, he's screwing with the kid.
"The name is Atomic Robo Tesla, nice to meet you."
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Even his name was Robo, gosh. Atsuro moves away from the telescope and continues to stare with unabashedly starry eyes. ...He considers his conversation options.
Have you always been a ro --
No.
Can I examine your hardw --
Double no.
When were you create --
Still kinda rude.
"......Did you want to take a look at the microscope? ...Steth -- Telescope?"
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This kid is far too nervous. Robo holds out his hand to shake.
"Nice to meet you Atsuro. I take it you don't see many robots around here?"
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Ones that were a hundred feet tall, ones that were perfect replicas of 15 year old girls, ones that sang...
"It's always neat to meet them, though. ...And you're more... what I think of when I hear 'robot'."
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Of course he keeps from having any actual weaponry installed in him.
"So, which robot is the least like what you imagined?"
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And appearances were almost as good as reality.
"I'm not actually sure. ...Probably the girl robots that sing. They sing like you'd expect a robot to, but... It seems like a lot of effort to make a totally lifelike robot that just... sings."
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Really, he doesn't want to dwell on why they were made. He's just going to not ask.
"Well, where I come from robots can't pass as people. That's far too specialized and there's plenty of other things to get right, first."
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At least, not yet.
"But that's just cosmetic. Getting a self-aware robot at all is beyond our reach right now."
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Self awareness? Now that takes true genius.
[Not bias at all.]
Though I've seen it happen by accident, too.
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It's amazing what is out there sometimes.
[Not going to dwell on the rest of that, though.]
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[He wonders if it's possible to make a robot that enjoys programming. Or is it that too self-referential?]
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[Robots making better robots. Not something anyone really wants.]
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[It's the ideal programmer's assistant.]
We have something in our world called a Turing test - the point at which a robot, an AI, can't be distinguished from a human anymore. Do you know when something like that first happened in your world?