Poor Mike – he can be pretty verbose. But I mean, she ASKED.
This isn’t just technobabble, by the way, although it is science fiction. The radiation required to cause lesions in the brain tissue would normally be enough to cause death from other causes anyway, So the exact effect of acute radiation on the brain can be hard to determine. However, I did research this, and de-myelinization and death of insulating glial cells, as well as lysis and micro-lesions in the nerve tissue, seems to be a likely result of major whole-body radiation exposure. In Sarah’s case it would have been longer exposure to a lower but still acute dose, and therefore the damage would be slower-acting, and combined with head trauma that exacerbated her condition. Either way, she isn’t too happy about the solution.
Another week goes by. Again, I won’t tell you specifics, to protect the innocent, but GOD, sometimes I wonder. No… no, I won’t go there. Got to be optimistic!
Until next week, folks, all the best!
The Bride of Mike-One-Echo, coming to your local drive in soon… assuming your local drive in, isn’t a scorched, radioactive crater by now.
…it is.
I Said it, and will do it again.
Mike had the eye on Sarah for God knows how long!
Now… If they start sharing corny nothings, mike can say “I’ll aways be with you” and be true 😀 This Flick is gonna be perfect to wash away the postapocalyptic mood!
Personally, I’d be more into Captain Da Costa – she’s the one person with her head right in that crazy place. But, well… à chacqu’un son goût, as they say.
Ah but what fun is there in making sence?
Tho’, when everyone has lost their mind, that’s makes her the odd one out, so who’s the crazy now!? hehehe
Very wise, lets agree to disagree 😉
Turning it off? What? But, you’re a freakin cyborg! That’s awesome! A fusion between flesh and machine, the *perfect* life form! Why would you turn it off and die?! *flips table*
I don’t think she really WANTED to be a cyborg, though. Also, interesting thought: if Mike is organic is he really a machine in the traditional sense? That is, would this make Sarah a cyborg or a GMO?
To paraphrase one Mr Adam Jenson, She Never Asked For This
“I’m sorry, Sarah; I can’t do that.” 🙂
I think both categorisations are insufficient, as technically humans, Mike and all (remaining) life on Earth are machines, by which I mean, a physical process affected by physics. As such, the boundary between cyborg and GMO is a pretty arbitrary one, though in the usual perception cyborgs generally incorporate obviously non-organic metal/plastic bodily replacements (borg, cybermen, etc). Thus Sarah is a human who has undergone intensive reconstructive surgery (no tissue rejection? Hats off!). Would would be very interesting is if she begins to exhibit more trans-human traits after the earlier link with Mike, though obviously moot if she cannot come to terms with her new existence. A counter-argument Mike could propose is that she was untroubled by being alive before she was aware of the details of the surgery, if he was feeling particularly un-empathic. Either way I’m pretty sure Mike will refuse to euthanise her, even by her own request as his earlier orders to protect her haven’t yet been overridden. 🙂
Oh, and if Mike can read her memories, how long before he can modify them…?
So, I guess she’d rather die than accept radical medical treatment that saved her life? I’m also guessing she was in no shape to give consent at the time, any more than an unconscious ER patient is able to give consent to the doctors working on him or her.
I’m also guessing it won’t be a pleasant or quick death either; sounds like her brain will deteriorate first, then she’ll die. That could take days or weeks. Assuming she dies at all; maybe she just ends up brain-dead or in a vegetative state (same thing?).
Depends on how you look at it I guess. At what point to you ask to be taken off life support?
I wonder how MIKE manipulated all those fine and small parts into Sarah…? He doesn’t have hands. Or I still wonder how she ended up being in MIKES inside…
Oh wait. I know three ‘bots who DO have hands. Sort of…
😉
I couldn’t POSSIBLY comment.
“I can rebuild her; I have the technology. (pause) So I just went ahead and did it. Surprise!” 🙂
We can rebuild her. We have the technology.
…but I don’t want to spend a lot of money.
It looks like this rebuild was definitely done on the cheap, so I doubt they exceeded…(dun-dun-DUN!!!)…six million dollars. 😉
If he turns it off, you die, you know.
Frankly, I’d be thrilled to have been operated upon by an AI, especially considering the positive modifications. But I’m rather off-beat and more than a little eccentric, soooo….
I guess it depends how much of it, and how invasive it is. And in Sarah’s case, what the side effects are.
Turning off the repairs seriously that won’t end well.