Squish-bot - 12/Jun/2012
This is a slightly weird gadget, which has gone through three stages of development. Each stage was done by a different person.
Stage One
An unused plastic inflatable sex doll, of either gender, is taken and waved. This produces something which looks pretty human and feels like human skin to the touch, with human hair, and even breathes, but is obviously full of air rather than human flesh and organs. The body remains unconscious. When deflated by either puncture or (hidden) valve this dies and just becomes a plastic sex doll again, and dies anyway after about a week. After death re-waving does nothing except make the plastic dissolve into a rather nasty mess. If left alone then after a few months the plastic slowly decays, anyway.
Stage Two
As Stage One, but the body, after filling with air, has body-temperature water mixed with 'essential salts', which match the composition of the chemical elements in the human body, poured into the mouth. The body is then injected with "uisce beatha" (water of life) made from waved whisky in a special (creation) ritual; strangely chemical tests show the same results for this 'water' as insulin, though insulin wont do. The water gels into flesh, bones and organs. In almost all respects this acts as an (unconscious) human body, including to genetic analysis, and has unique things like finger prints. After about seven days the body dies, and you've got a salty water-filled sex doll. Killing the body (as you'd kill a human) leaves a doll. An injection of "uisce beatha" 'kills' the doll. The process cannot be repeated on the same doll, but if carefully washed-out and kept the doll does not decay, as long as the doll was 'killed' by a second injection.
Stage Three
As Stage Two, but the salts are held within a special container instead of mixed with the water. Pure water (warmed UK tap water will do) of about body temperature is used, and the initial injection causes the salts to mix with the water and become flesh, the second separates the salts back into the container leaving pure water. If the paired injection process is used then the doll can be used (by the same person) repeatedly. Death of the body by other means leaves a salty water-filled sex doll. Its unclear what using the second injection on a significantly injured body would do, particularly one with a wound in the skin.
Stage One is quite well known in some circles, Stage Two is known to a smaller group, probably no more than a dozen. These are all mystics who have created handwavium-based rituals. Stage Three was developed by Brains, and he also added the belly pouch to include a half brain, as used by his design of robots to backup themselves. Brains hasn't (late 2008) informed anyone else about the Stage Three process.
Brains has used Stage Three bots to give his design of robot temporary use of the closest thing to living human bodies as they're likely to get. He has put some effort into customising bodies to their requirements; the Kei and Yuri bots may strike terror into some hearts.
Why do the squish-bots (Uran chose this name) die? One mystic theory, not known to Brains (or associates), is it's because they have no souls. Starvation and dehydration likely don't help; smart people would treat them like the persistently unconscious. If this is true then one with a half brain in it has a soul, and might go on living indefinitely. Though, after three days half brains need resynchronising again by a backup, so that is an issue as well. But, maybe a manageable one...
--
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
This is a slightly weird gadget, which has gone through three stages of development. Each stage was done by a different person.
Stage One
An unused plastic inflatable sex doll, of either gender, is taken and waved. This produces something which looks pretty human and feels like human skin to the touch, with human hair, and even breathes, but is obviously full of air rather than human flesh and organs. The body remains unconscious. When deflated by either puncture or (hidden) valve this dies and just becomes a plastic sex doll again, and dies anyway after about a week. After death re-waving does nothing except make the plastic dissolve into a rather nasty mess. If left alone then after a few months the plastic slowly decays, anyway.
Stage Two
As Stage One, but the body, after filling with air, has body-temperature water mixed with 'essential salts', which match the composition of the chemical elements in the human body, poured into the mouth. The body is then injected with "uisce beatha" (water of life) made from waved whisky in a special (creation) ritual; strangely chemical tests show the same results for this 'water' as insulin, though insulin wont do. The water gels into flesh, bones and organs. In almost all respects this acts as an (unconscious) human body, including to genetic analysis, and has unique things like finger prints. After about seven days the body dies, and you've got a salty water-filled sex doll. Killing the body (as you'd kill a human) leaves a doll. An injection of "uisce beatha" 'kills' the doll. The process cannot be repeated on the same doll, but if carefully washed-out and kept the doll does not decay, as long as the doll was 'killed' by a second injection.
Stage Three
As Stage Two, but the salts are held within a special container instead of mixed with the water. Pure water (warmed UK tap water will do) of about body temperature is used, and the initial injection causes the salts to mix with the water and become flesh, the second separates the salts back into the container leaving pure water. If the paired injection process is used then the doll can be used (by the same person) repeatedly. Death of the body by other means leaves a salty water-filled sex doll. Its unclear what using the second injection on a significantly injured body would do, particularly one with a wound in the skin.
Stage One is quite well known in some circles, Stage Two is known to a smaller group, probably no more than a dozen. These are all mystics who have created handwavium-based rituals. Stage Three was developed by Brains, and he also added the belly pouch to include a half brain, as used by his design of robots to backup themselves. Brains hasn't (late 2008) informed anyone else about the Stage Three process.
Brains has used Stage Three bots to give his design of robot temporary use of the closest thing to living human bodies as they're likely to get. He has put some effort into customising bodies to their requirements; the Kei and Yuri bots may strike terror into some hearts.
Why do the squish-bots (Uran chose this name) die? One mystic theory, not known to Brains (or associates), is it's because they have no souls. Starvation and dehydration likely don't help; smart people would treat them like the persistently unconscious. If this is true then one with a half brain in it has a soul, and might go on living indefinitely. Though, after three days half brains need resynchronising again by a backup, so that is an issue as well. But, maybe a manageable one...
--
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind