• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    What does an android need with a dick?

    Simple answer; to be fully functional.

    (Also, the definition of android is an intelligent, automated machine made to resemble a human…)

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    10 months ago

    If they’re supposed to mimic humans you’d want at least the shape of a booty. Otherwise you’d have an android walking around with Hank-Hill-Butt

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    I just noticed how weird it was to arrange all the body parts in that way in that display.

    If the ship had been lost, damaged or abandoned or some reason and an alien species had come upon it … they would have seen this display and wondered what kind of weird crab like creatures inhabited this ship

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    Fuck it, let’s go in the opposite direction. We’re not obligated to perfectly emulate human anatomy, so why not give him four ass cheeks? Dual crack technology

    • Well, he doesn’t digest. He doesn’t need to digest. So there are several options:

      • temporary internal storage pouch, regurgitated later for recycling, or teleports it directly from his storage unit
      • raw material for some matter:energy converter.
      • mechanism, like a replicator. He takes in food and produces worthless but dense platinum.
      • he’s got some simplified equivalent to a digestive system that breaks down biological material.

      I lean toward the first. It’s the most space efficient, and wouldn’t bother him. The second is unlikely because he’d be able to function as an insanely powerful, world destroying bomb. The third is a very Star Trek solution. The fourth seems like a gross waste of space to no end. Is pooping that integral to understanding humans?

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        I mean, I think, Occam’s Razor, he’s got a rudimentary, non-functioning facsimile of a digestive tract that takes all the food he mashes up in his mouth and pushes out his poop-shoot when he wants to empty himself. That would allow him to have a mostly human-like eating experience, which would aid him in his quest to be more human. I think Soong would have argued pooping is integral to the human experience (After all, he made Data able to pointless eat, drink, and fuck. Why draw the line there?), but even if he didn’t, having Data lean over a sink and regurgitate everything he swallowed at the end if the day feels pretty inhuman.

        • having Data lean over a sink and regurgitate everything he swallowed at the end if the day feels pretty inhuman.

          I take it you’ve never known a bulimic.

          Not implying it’s healthy or normal, but it’s not uncommon nor inhuman.

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            Sure, but it seems weird to program that in. Part of his journey to becoming more human should be developing his own body dysmorphia, not having one assigned to him.

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                10 months ago

                Yes, but it should he on Data to find those external sources. What if Data chooses to hang out with bodybuilders, and instead develops MDD?

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          regurgitate everything he swallowed at the end if the day feels pretty inhuman.

          There’s an ED joke in here but I’m not nearly spicy enough to make or post one.

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    Ask not what an android needs with a buttcrack, ask instead what you need with that buttcrack.