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Quote from: Execute/Dumbo.exe on December 02, 2013, 02:56:37 am

when do you assume ER is going to be over? there doesn't seem to be many situations where everyone can be irreparably killed, or when everything has been fixed, what is the end going to be? a major assault on the main stronghold, fighting for their lives, or what?

Lets see...depending on the speed we're going...and the paths chosen...upgrades gotten...One to four years.

Looks like Single 69.

What looks like the beginnings of a second jaw form inside the already massive, cavernous mouth of the creature.

((That's not an entirely good analogue, GWG, because a smartphone cluster linked into cloud computing can still function as a processing core. You get some latency, but individual processes can be carried out, and distributed memory works as well. That's the actual issue with having a distributed brain - your individual segments would have delays in interacting, meaning that things like visual memory and associative thought will be very sluggish. You trade that for an increase in redundancy and survivability, plus an increase in basic, reflexive reaction speed if you have the setup for it, but you don't think any clearer or faster on the overall.

I should say that in combat, preparing for taking a whole lot of damage to unspecified areas of the organism, the distributed nerve system can actually be a benefit. A central nervous system is too obvious a weakspot, and there are limits to how well it can be protected. Splitting the whole thing up into an equivalent of a cloud computer/RAID array allows to take damage without the whole thing ceasing to function. And if you turn yourself into a 16-legged chitinous combine harvester that needs no actions more complex than "find hostile organic, kill, consume", the slowing of cognitive functions won't hamper you too much.))

Following on from the link Sinless posted, why don't we have hydrocarbon seas?

I still vote for lesser manna oceans