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Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.10 03:27:39 -
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Diana Kim wrote:Fourth, replacement of limbs is the lest harm they can do to themselves. You probably should be way more worried about Gallente body modificators who does way worse things with themselves than just limb prosthetics. But in any way, mechanical replacement can't match biological one. By making your hand stronger, you make it slower and way less sensitive than biological. You can stuff it with sensors, but then it will be way less strong and way less fast than the natural one. And there is almost no way to make artificial arm faster than the regular one.
Okay, I know you and reality have a... strained relationship, but this is pure nonsense.
We are long, LONG past the point where human augmentation comes with a tradeoff. The days where a stronger arm was also a slower one are centuries behind us, and modern nanocircuitry is so light that your body's natural fluctuations in weight throughout the day dramatically outweigh even the most aggressive upgrades to your central nervous system.
I don't know what clunky back-asswards school of cybernetics you studied, but it's clearly never encountered things like nanocomposite subcutaneous microweave that dissipates both kinetic and thermal energy thereby affording the user protection from both lasers and kinetic projectiles. Not armor, but it can make the difference between getting to an operating table and dying on the spot.
Orthoplastic bones are an order of magnitude stronger than natural human bone while being lighter into the bargain. Myopolymer muscles with the same density as normal human tissue offers 150% of the performance or more. Then there''s the microsuperconductor synthetic nerves that are an essential component in quickdraw implants, performance enhancers for every conceivable facet of human life from social empathy to focused attention to sexual stamina...
By far the most invasive of my personal augmentations are the capsuleer piloting suite. Otherwise, I prefer to look and be relatively baseline. I am rather stronger than an ordinary man of my size and body type. My reflexes are accelerated, my maximum percent body fat is capped so that I could eat like a particularly gluttonous king and gain no weight, and with my synthetic liver I could drink a bar out of business then sit the tea maker ceremony in the morning and walk away feeling as fresh as glacial meltwater.
Modern cybernetic enhancements are just that: enhancements. I don't know which century you're stuck in but here in the real world we're dealing with true improvements to the human body. The only tradeoff I've ever noticed is that I need a few more calories per day, which is not what I'd call a hardship.
But, I shouldn't expect anything Diana Kim says to map with the facts. I don't think there's a human augmentation program in the world that could fix your delusions.
AKA Hambone
Author of The Deathworlders
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Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.10 07:26:42 -
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Even you must be using some thoroughly outdated haptic and proprioceptary relays if rehabilitation is taking that long.
The goal of modern prosthetics has always been to make the new limb feel as natural and comfortable as possible so as to minimize the acclimatization time needed. An objective that was achieved generations ago in Caldari lines. Just take a look at Zainou's products sometime.
I had a prosthetic knee when I was still a baseliner (altercation with an anti-materiel pulse laser) and adapting to it only took me a couple of weeks, and that was twenty years ago.
AKA Hambone
Author of The Deathworlders
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Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.10 08:45:56 -
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...true. The Watch paid for everything.
Well reminded, thank you.
AKA Hambone
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Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.10 14:36:48 -
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There'll be an official comment in due course, though it's not like we can stop anyone from doing some detective work and drawing their own conclusions on how it's going...
AKA Hambone
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Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.10 15:35:31 -
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Mmm. I always say that the point is to be a human first and trans-, post- or meta- a very distant second.
The point is to augment and enhance the human condition, not replace it.
AKA Hambone
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Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.12 01:37:41 -
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Status Update, Origin System as of YC118.10.12
Alexylva Paradox is pleased to announce that the Origin system's alert status has now been reduced to yellow-elevated and the system has been declared secure. The aggressors have left the system and a ceasefire is in effect until Thursday.
The system defense was a resounding success. Despite the loss of a few minor ALXVP orbitals our major infrastructure including all of our Citadels are intact and well and corporate assets are secure.
The citadel colonists have been stood down from evacuation stations and are returning to their daily lives.
Detailed information on the last few days of hostilities is available on any major public combat-tracking site, and will not be repeated in this summary.
ALXVP extend our heartfelt gratitude to our allies and friends:
404 Hole Not Found Arataka Research Consortium Bloody Heathens Dark Skies Dojo Ember Sands Escalating Entropy Feuerreich Imperial Shipment La Division Bleue Overload This Phoenix Naval Systems Spatial Instability The Last Chancers. Upholders Violently Optimistic Alliance Wrong Hole.
I would also personally like to thank without naming our wonderful FC, whose calm guidance, patience, professionalism and meticulous planning combined into some of the finest leadership it has ever been my privilege to witness, let alone receive.
As for the other side, we do not believe in needless saber-rattling in this corporation and so to our aggressors our only message is:
o7 gf
-Yakiya Verin Hakatain Subcoordinator, Alexylva Paradox
AKA Hambone
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Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.14 15:39:54 -
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Luna Hanaya wrote:The God showed you mercy that day. But how will you use it? Will you accept Him and show Him your gratitude? Or will you return to your unholy ways and display outrageous and blasphemous ingratitude? It is for you to decide. Remember though, if He can give you peace, He can take it away.
God looks an awful lot like a hundred capsuleers and an entirely comprehensible military strategy supported by a solid defensive base....
AKA Hambone
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