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[6] You get a long, itemised list. Gist of it is what was given in the last post. More specifics: Fred, Jim, Ashley, Elpis, and Caroline are in the hospital, still recovering (burns are worse on those who are still 100% meat and sane); Christiana and Britney sustained minor burns; and Gertrude was inside at the time. Your single hen was scared but unharmed. Damage costs wil probably be in the thousands, if the contractors don't fix anything except the explosion's damage.
The bots have begun repair, but as they consist of two miners, a logger, a carpenter, a crude android missing a leg, three very crude and small robots that mostly follow random people around and occasionally demand some of Jim's time in repairing them, and a general-purpose android missing a head, progress has been...slow.
Seriously? You're building ANOTHER big heat ray? Fine. HR-8 [5] is made fairly quickly. This pretty much tires you out.

DAY 10 OF VILLAINY COMPLETE

You wake up. Your burns are sore, but other than that you're fine. Christiana and Britney have returned, and are horrified that you built another big heat ray. Breakfast is good, but a bit dry. Britney's under stress.

NINJEDIT:

Get working on a Genetic Splicing and Cloning Machine.
Also, try and make another robotic arm and leg, we'll add those later.

[3] You build the machine after reading up on the literature of genetic engineering, and install it in one of the basement rooms near the laboratory. You decide to commandeer one of the other nearby empty rooms for storage of experiments, test subjects, H₂SO₄, etc. [6] The new arm and leg are so great, you can't wait to put them on! Starting with the arm...huh, self-surgery is even harder one-armed.

What will you do now, O Mad One?

Sorry. I guess that the single-character RTDs have a completely different timescale.

Nothing. Same that you and I do.
HA HA HA!

What would Urist do in a modern-day office?

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The general idea is sound. Why should individual atoms work differently than whole scads of atoms?

Issues of scale. For example: I have no issues with individual atoms, or even small compounds, entering my bloodstream. I would not, however, like to find out what happens if an entire cat made it's way in there.

If your bloodstream was big enough, it wouldn't matter. Besides, the analogy is faulty--a better analogy might be comparing what happens if some weird quantum effect happens to an electron and asking why that couldn't happen to or affect a person.

But my bloodstream isn't big enough, that's the point. Quantum effects don't scale up to our everyday, classical-mechanics scale. And we should be thankful for that. 9 out 10 times, the answer to "what would happen if X did scale up like that?" is "the universe as we know it wouldn't exist".

And even if I accept your premise, what about when the effects of quantum thingies affect the macroscopic world, a la the exact thought experiment we were talking about?

They only do so in a statistical sense. That's the big flaw in the quantum-cat scenario.

What about when the quantum-level effects of a handful of atoms affected the macroscopic world, most crudely via computers doing something if sensors they are hooked up to detect something? Which is pretty much what Schrodinger's Cat is...
Take out the cat, and after an hour the flask is half shattered and half unshattered, because no one has observed the atom's decay or any of its effects. Is this essentially correct, and if not where does the flaw in my reasoning lie?

"Victor asks , were would Daren be? "
Put armor and coat back on then look for a way to sneak in

Your armor and coat are already back on, I assumed Victor wasn't an idiot or a yeti.

It's alright, Fool.

Heh, I guess I spend most of my time on Forums Mode, too.

Break the laws of spiritdom and interact anyways

[1] Ah, nope. Hey, wait a sec, you are interacting with something! I wonder if this sign is important..."Black Hole Generator, Caution"? Oh fu--

Care to re-reincarnate?