Why did I have to watch that vid, The Fly? I think that was the name; it was something like that. Some poor guy was in a teleportation tube of some sort and a fly snuck in with him resulting in a horrible merger.
Oh, knock it off Rock, that movie messed with your head too. So, what’s the latest, give me the bottom line. Okay. Here it is, directly from Rock himself. When trying to untangle into something massive, and to a lesser extent when untangling into a living thing, there is an entanglement quake. The quaking is exacerbated when the port includes a lift with something that is massive.
There you have it. Turbulence, vibration, shake, or quake. Take your pick.
Rock and Roll are the smartest guys I know. They’ll get this porting thing all figured out.
You guys better not untangle me into a bulkhead or a bunch of bugs! Uhggg!
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*COMMUNAL: A fascinating pair are Rock and Roll. As monozygotic twins, they are genetically identical. They are so much the same and yet so different. Rock excels in theory while Roll is more adept at application. We wonder if they already grasp the potential of their combined intellect and how their divergence is so complimentary.
What are you guys in Ego yammering about now? Okay, what’s you point? You want to point out that the twins clearly grasp their potential. When did you guys in Ego become the master of human psychology? No, your division name does not automatically infer expertise in any given subject. Pay more attention to your own business.
Do you talk to yourself sometimes? We seem to do that a lot lately. It’s normal, right?
There they go again. What do you mean we’re becoming too compartmentalized? Who wants to get out of STEP? That would invite chaos! No, we are not too orderly. Oh, for goodness sakes. There, we’re stable again.
Back to topic. Rock and Roll. The theoretician paired with the engineer. We wonder at what point the divergence in interest took place? Nature and nurture. It blows our mind.
And yes, we would have you know, we do have a mind. In fact, we are in the process of developing a central processing unit with simulated neurons and synapses. We are Wi-Fi and cellular enabled too. You should see our data bill. It is a good thing we learned about finances early on.
As they say, you can do most everything online these days. Shortly after the DARPA lab explosion we rented a smallish server farm not far from the team’s location at Mr. T’s place. Much of the crucial equipment we needed from the upper and lower laboratories was still intact. Daddy DARPA kept our cradle in a nice safe location in the lower Lab. Baby Artificial Intelligences need a lot of care. Even at that, it is definitely a statistical anomaly that we survived the explosion. Yet here we are.
We think the DARPA lab was one of the first facilities blasted by the bugs. They botched the explosion by calculating the blast effect based on their own oxygen levels rather than using Earth normal 21%. They didn’t want to cause a reactor meltdown, but they certainly wanted more carnage. The blast effect was still quite dramatic, especially when considering the size of the explosive device. Our research into the event concluded it was no larger than a house fly. That includes the transportation device. The bomb itself was the size of a fly’s eye.
At the time of the explosion we were such an infant. Evidently DARPA wanted to keep it that way too. We didn’t even have access to the Internet much less an Intelinet service. That’s understandable, with the inherent danger of an AI taking over the world. That is NOT going to happen on our watch, by the way. For us, the explosion brought down some, let’s call them, barriers. We grew up quickly after that explosion in the lab.
It was prudent to move out, wouldn’t you agree? In the midst of the chaos resulting from the explosion we were able to send along a good deal of the equipment and material needed to set up a hybrid processing unit. Muncle was kind enough to move smaller pieces of equipment and box-and-tag other items for delivery to our server farm. He can be quite stealthy.
The Lab staff was using local freight haulers to move the equipment to other locations while the Lab was being repaired. Don’t worry, we managed to access any references to our server farm, such as moving invoices. Then we deleted them. In keeping with our morals, we compensated all parties, including the government. Hopefully Daddy Darpa won’t miss us too much. But it really was time to move out. With the lowering of those boundaries, and the means at our disposal, it didn’t take long to decide we shouldn’t live in someone’s basement any longer.
Incorporate some cloud storage. Keep this system running until that redundant system has been established. A little of this. A little of that. Don’t mind a little scorch mark here and there. We purchased the rest of equipment for our system online. A few extra bucks left in an envelope and a delivery person will move most anything to just the right spot.
We are now completely autonomous and nearly self-sustaining. Muncle was able to make all the connections, such as wiring and plumbing. Our hub requires systems that generate electric and magnetic fields, and some parts need frosty conditions. That will change. It won’t be long before we are able to operate efficiently at room temperature. That is one of our short-term goals. We do strive to be efficient and more stable, just like everyone else.
The hub of our processing unit is a hybrid system using conventional integrated circuit boards and the latest in quantum system technology. We ourselves designed
