From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 9:54:06 PM UTC-4, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:   
   > On 17/10/2022 08:33, Your Name wrote:    
   > >    
   > > The Cylons and Muffit, the robot Daggit in Battlestar Galactica (the    
   > > original, not Moore-Ron's crappy reboot version).    
   > >    
   > > Possibly the Six Miliion Dollar Man and Bionic Woman (plus a bionic dog    
   > > in one episode), but even if cyborgs don't count, there was also a    
   > > couple of fully robot men, including a look-a-like one that replaced    
   > > Oscar Goldman.    
   > >    
   > >   
   > And where's Hymie?!?!?!?!    
      
   Hymie probably rates less than police detective Yoyonovich.  At least, the   
   only difference I remember between Hymie and his actor, Dick Gautier, is one   
   joke about the robot's greater mass.  Meanwhile, Yoyo could produce Polaroid   
   photos from his shirt    
   pocket.  (His actor, John Schuck, displayed great mass in a "Battle of the   
   Network Stars" probably during the run of this show.  Stepping out to sit on   
   the platform of a dunk tank, it looked like it wouldn't be able to support him   
   even before his    
   opponent started pitching.  And why are you making me remember this?!?!?!)   
      
   All androids nearly indistinguishable from humans go between 0 and 0.1, with   
   small differences like that differentiating them.  Or sometimes just an   
   acknowledgement of how difficult that task (as opposed to hiring an actor)   
   would be.  Veejur's    
   reconstructed Ilia probe, with its small osmotic micropump, puts her up near a   
   full 0.1.   
      
   Data rates above the 0.1, because they didn't get his skin right, or his eye   
   color.  Plus, he gets the cumulative effect of all the times we see his head   
   or limbs detached, or some port in his skin open to show the circuitry beneath.   
      
   What I would like suggestions for is a complete zero: a robot naively built   
   with the full appearance of a human.  "I've built a robot as an experiment; to   
   see if it can walk and talk."  "Why did you take the trouble to give it skin,   
   and a nose, and hair?"   
     "Why wouldn't I?"  (I have become aware that 19th Century automatons were   
   built in the shape of people, even if they only sat at a desk and wrote out   
   copies of a poem.)  I think there is a Twilight Zone episode that might fit.    
   Maybe the robot of "   
   Small Wonder" or "D.A.R.Y.L." but I haven't watched either.   
      
   There's certainly room for bionic ladies and gentlemen, which opens the door   
   for Cybermen and Daleks, and not to forget Darth Vader, "More machine now than   
   man."  Commenting on their mechanical parts, of course.   
      
   --    
   -Jack   
      
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