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A nervous public will demand that organic robots be given an arbitrarily short lifespan as a failsafe. Say four years. And those robots would also be restricted to working in outer space because it would be too hard to control robots indistinguishable from ordinary humans on Earth.


Then it will start being four o'clock in the morning and raining. All. The. Time.

On the plus side, there will be a sudden popularity in delicious noodle bars.


Fancy umbrellas will also be abound.


The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. The problem with 4 years is that they'll be significantly stronger and smarter than us.


"I've... seen things... you people wouldn't believe."

"Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate..."

"All those... moments... will be lost, in time, like [chokes up] tears... in... rain."

"Time... to die."




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