Cyborg Theory

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

We are starting a new class project. I have tagged five members of the class via a secret email. Those students have just discovered that they are human-form robots. Your job as a class is to figure out who those five students are and how you would react if you discovered they were not as human as they acted. This should take tonight's class period and next weeks. You are also allowed to work on this over the week.

For the ones who are cylons human-form robots: Your job is to keep the real humans guessing and to write a report on how you had to hide your true identity followed by how you had to deal with how the "humans" in your class reacted to you.

For those who are humans: Your job is to give me a report on how you felt to discover your close friends and school mates were not what you thought they were.

For those of you who are actually cylons in disguise: I have cake and tea for you after class as this project may be traumatizing.

The reports will be due Wednesday, October 19.

Also, I will call attendance. Please respond when I say your name.

Comments

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin sat in the room and tried to guess which of his classmates were pretending to be 'droids.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

I don't know if cylons could have super powers like Anakin. *thinks*

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"I guess it would depend on what they were trying to accomplish, huh?" Anakin said. "Is there goal to be better than normal humans? Or to be just like regular humans?"

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

It does seem to depend on the type, I suppose?

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"As Professor Carter was saying, it would depend entirely on their programming. What would someone possibly get out a robot who could read emotions or be able to fall from great heights or have telekinetic abilities?" He realized this might not be the best way of convincing anyone of his innocence.

He looked at Lee. "An absolutely different result from someone building a droid with a personality built to be pleasing to most beings it would encounter and really great arm muscles for distracting them if the whole 'personality' thing wasn't working."

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee smiles suggestively at Anakin and eyes him up and down. "A pleasing body, eh?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin's eyebrow quirked. "I'm not saying it works on me, personally, but you seem to be able to use it to distract a good portion of the class with your bulging muscles rogueish charm."

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee shrugs. "Adamas have charm."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Maybe your evil robot masters knew that you've been programmed with a compelling back story."

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka notices Anakin. "You're doing a good job of observing. Robots would have to study humans..."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Or ask a lot of questions," he shot back. "Which seems to be your preferred method." He smiled.

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

"But that would be calling attention to myself. If I were a robot, I wouldn't want to do that." She arched a brow. "Then again, levitation's pretty conspicuous."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Hey, asking questions so does not make you a robot. Robots wouldn't have curiosity.

...and robots couldn't do this. ::rubs her stomach and pats her head::

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"But wouldn't the purpose of a robot be intelligence gathering? It wouldn't be so much curiosity as programming."

Anakin is very impressed by the stomach-head trick.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

And a robot wouldn't do this. ::starts running her fingers through Anakins really bad hair::

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

"OK. You are so totally a robot. Cally would never do that to Anakin."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Are you sure? ::stops running her hands through Anakin's hair and starts running them through Beka's::

I might just've gotten used to the idea, or something. ::trying her best not to giggle::

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

She totally did that last night in my room to ANDERS, zomg!

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin jerked away from her hand. "Not the hair, OMG! Perhaps the robots would be programmed with seduction tactics if they didn't have amazing supernatural capabilities."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

::pouts at Anakin::

You really think these are special robot seduction tactics?

I totally woulda been built with bigger breasts if I was a seductress robot. ::laugh::

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Maybe your calling attention to yourself is a whats-it. An overcompensation."

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

"Erm... probably. But not for being a robot." She grins tentatively.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"You're still on my list of possible evil robots." Anakin levitated a pen and let it spin in a circle unattended. "So you say. But if you're a trained robot, you'd be good at avoiding uncomfortable questions."

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

You're still on mine, but OMG, it would make me so sad if you were an evil robot. Beka couldn't do anything cool like levitate a pen, so she just smiled helpfully. "Trained robots would be masters of distraction. What happens if I grab that pen while you're doing that?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

He grinned. "Maybe nothing. Maybe I'll use that time to take over the class and implement my evil, evil programming."

"Probably the first one, though."