Is Agia a Robot?

brunians at brunians.org · 19 Jun 2010, 16:20 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:20:50 -0400
Subject: (urth) Is Agia a Robot?
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Some of them could be *actual* chemical robots.

Fueled by digestion or processes analagous to digestion.

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> Ah, fusion. Yes, it was the shielding I was concerned about.
>
> Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> From: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
>>> From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>>>
>>>> I'd read this more as Wolfe musing, "How will I call robots without
>>>> sounding like ad copy for a Japanese toy?
>>>> Hm, well the inventor of robots called them chemical in nature. This
>>>> runs against the cliche. Thus, applying
>>>> Brunians' radical principle, I shall call them "chems." "
>>> ....
>>> That sounds reasonable to me.  Also, maybe their power source is
>>> electrochemical, namely batteries.  Was there ever anything in the
>>> Long Sun books about where they get their power, needing to recharge,
>>> etc.?
>>
>> They are nuclear powered, although not necessarily all of the same
>> type. Mint caused a trooper's fusion power source to blow when she
>> struck him with an azoth.  And Crane was concerned about [radioactive]
>> isotope contamination after he treated Lemur similarly - he said it
>> was good that he and Silk had been washed by their swim in Lake Limna.
>>
>> - Gerry Quinn
>>
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