A little non-sequiteur here, Alan Alda Endowed an Institute for Communication that tries to help scientists better communicate with people like climate deniers and other members of the public at large. He also runs a podcast called "Clear and Vivid"
Agreed, Oberoten. I've always felt that Katya was the person in Nova Roma that hands down got shortest end of the stick in so many ways.
I was so thrilled that she had a happy ending, I even admit it brought a couple of tears to my eye... I won't even blame it on the dust for that one.
and to see her now, just a short time afterwards, not only improving by leaps and bounds, but also trying her best to be useful is absolutely heart warming.
Is that dust or am I starting to tear up again? I can't tell...
Ah. Apparently my browser was caching the "site not found" error page for that URL. Had to refresh, and then -- as you say -- it seems to be working now. Thank you for the sanity check.
I finally get it! The sparlky dudes are from the future... from Datachasers future... and because of the retcon, Lynn's eggs weren't preserved, and the human race started to mutate toward extinction, after CentComm went over the deep end, since no one with Taylor DNA was around, after Lynn failed her pilot's test, catastrophically. Now, sparkly dudes had to travel back in time, to get mooooore paaarts, before humanity goes extinct.
Doctor-bot is confident that s/he can direct a completely untrained assistant in ways reliably beneficial to a burn patient with a likely spinal injury.
Even though this isn't a third-degree burn, That's ... more confidence than most 21st-century physicians would have.
Either doctor-bot is just that good, or the infrastructure for preventing accidental further injury of the patient is just that good, or doctor-bot is an idiot. I choose to believe the former two and not to believe the latter.
I am intrigued by the implications of "Hey Doc! Wake up!" followed by "System boot complete. Loading Persona."
"Doctor" is apparently an AI professional who temporarily occupies compatible chassis wherever a patient is found in need. Between "visits" the chassis may presumably be occupied by other such traveling professionals, like mechanics, plumbers, engineers, construction workers, etc, whose services are needed at these scattered locations where the places are too far apart to support conventional businesses.
Of course, there is also the possibility that these Persona aren't "travelers" in any meaningful sense, but instead are resident on Logrin's base - whether active in the installation's computers like a committee of specialized mini AIS, or in cold storage on inert media somewhere. That would be better security, but they wouldn't get or be able to apply nearly as much job experience at their specialties if Logrin is their only client.
Doctor-bot, for example, if coming up off cold storage, might be two years out of date since the last "visit" where he updated knowledge on pathogens, facing a pathogen that didn't exist two years ago.
On the plus side, I think we just saw what chassis scooter will be housed in. He just has to wait for Cyana's doctor visit to be over.
well, of course. They'd have to be. But doesn't that mean "doctor" comes up with the memory of treating patients and experiencing training, etc, elsewhere?
And won't treating Cyana's 2nd-degree burns while taking care for a possible spinal injury and with the help of a completely untrained assistant be a contribution to the same system of updates?
"Doc" may be a traveler with discontinuous and possibly temporally nonlinear memory of his life, but he would seem to be a traveler nonetheless. Those updated files are his memory.
It's possible to combine update information with a blockchain update system, such that an update of information in one is propagated throughout. The individual element "Doc" can simultaneously coexist across all platforms containing the equivalent software.
I still want Scooter in a toy-enterprise, upgraded with real phasers and mini-torpedoes. 🤣
For all we know, a small styrofoam model like that could be wickedly fast, since it weighs next to nothing.
"Move like a butterfly, sting like a bee!" 😁
Graphene... come on it's the 23rd century ..
using graphene , it's light as styrofoam, strong as steel (bullet proof/resistant),, an when prepared correctly energy ablative.. ((it cost's over $100us, an oz..)
also Scooter had all that,, just not the toy frame.. now "refit" them into the USS Vengeance. dreadnought class.
with shields, cloak, an 'maybe' deflectors...
I agree, speech and other areas as well, when you consider that it is said that its only been "a couple of days" since she arrived here from New Rome. :)
C'mon Katya! Give it a try. Dusty and Logrin think you got this! Who knows, it's possible that Katya is a medical savant! :D
I do hope things are getting settled, and some of the stress is dissipating, Rose!
Seemed like it was touch and go for CF for a while there!
Similar story with doc House, though I'd pick EMH's manners over his any day of the week.
I was so thrilled that she had a happy ending, I even admit it brought a couple of tears to my eye... I won't even blame it on the dust for that one.
and to see her now, just a short time afterwards, not only improving by leaps and bounds, but also trying her best to be useful is absolutely heart warming.
Is that dust or am I starting to tear up again? I can't tell...
*hugs and comforts her*
...and you can do it, Katya - look at poor Cyana - you can do it!
*edit: It appears to be working now.
Even though this isn't a third-degree burn, That's ... more confidence than most 21st-century physicians would have.
Either doctor-bot is just that good, or the infrastructure for preventing accidental further injury of the patient is just that good, or doctor-bot is an idiot. I choose to believe the former two and not to believe the latter.
"Doctor" is apparently an AI professional who temporarily occupies compatible chassis wherever a patient is found in need. Between "visits" the chassis may presumably be occupied by other such traveling professionals, like mechanics, plumbers, engineers, construction workers, etc, whose services are needed at these scattered locations where the places are too far apart to support conventional businesses.
Of course, there is also the possibility that these Persona aren't "travelers" in any meaningful sense, but instead are resident on Logrin's base - whether active in the installation's computers like a committee of specialized mini AIS, or in cold storage on inert media somewhere. That would be better security, but they wouldn't get or be able to apply nearly as much job experience at their specialties if Logrin is their only client.
Doctor-bot, for example, if coming up off cold storage, might be two years out of date since the last "visit" where he updated knowledge on pathogens, facing a pathogen that didn't exist two years ago.
On the plus side, I think we just saw what chassis scooter will be housed in. He just has to wait for Cyana's doctor visit to be over.
And won't treating Cyana's 2nd-degree burns while taking care for a possible spinal injury and with the help of a completely untrained assistant be a contribution to the same system of updates?
"Doc" may be a traveler with discontinuous and possibly temporally nonlinear memory of his life, but he would seem to be a traveler nonetheless. Those updated files are his memory.
For all we know, a small styrofoam model like that could be wickedly fast, since it weighs next to nothing.
"Move like a butterfly, sting like a bee!" 😁
using graphene , it's light as styrofoam, strong as steel (bullet proof/resistant),, an when prepared correctly energy ablative.. ((it cost's over $100us, an oz..)
with shields, cloak, an 'maybe' deflectors...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9MKDWvtk6Q&list=RDGiKiviD7Nso