#android nineteen

[imperfectercell]

gossip androids

[risingchaos]

In episode nineteen of season three of Star Trek: The Original Series, Requiem for Methuselah, our main three go down to a planet to find a cure for an epidemic on the Enterprise. They run into a man named Flint, who takes them back to his home and offers help. While there, Kirk falls in love with a woman, Rayna, who turns out to be an android. She was designed to be a lover for her creator, Flint, and when she finds out she’s an android while Flint is threatening the triumvirate, she’s so torn between her love for creator and her love for Kirk that she actually dies. Obviously there’s a lot more to the episode but that’s the basics. There’s a few bits in here I think about a lot.

At the end, after Rayna dies, Spock says this after some dialogue.

Spock: The joys of love made her human, and the agonies of love destroyed her.

Fucking insane quote to have, especially from Spock. Near the start of this episode, Bones had offered Kirk brandy and half offered it to Spock with his normal “Spock hates fun” jabs, but Spock took him up on it and even opened up about how he was experiencing a new emotion. Envy. Envy of the man’s house they were in, which contained a lot of originals never seen before from a variety of famous artists.

Now, Spock saying that alone in the same episode where it was clear we had a teeny focus on Spock’s emotive capabilities was so great. We love a glimpse into the odd mind of our resident Vulcan, but it gets better. Spirk shippers, listen up.

Just before they find out Rayna is an android, they were about to travel into an unknown part of the complex they were in to retrieve said cure that had been hidden in there. Before entering, Spock steps in front of Kirk, saying he should go in alone as it might be dangerous. Obviously Kirk puts up a bit of a fight, and McCoy jumps in, pressuring Spock into letting all three of them go. He relents, and they go in.

Again, maybe not the most impactful on its own, but it’s a very important thing. Spock wanted to protect specifically Kirk from whatever danger might lie within. We later know this is because Spock wanted to hide Kirk from finding out Rayna is an android, but still. It’s insane.

At the very end, right before credits, Spock goes to Kirk’s room where the man in question is mourning the loss of Rayna. He compares himself to Flint very despondently.

Kirk: Very old, and lonely man. And a young, and lonely man. We put on a pretty poor show there, didn’t we? If only I could forget..

He puts his head down on the desk just before McCoy walks in. McCoy makes a comment about Kirk finally sleeping, tells Spock that everything is alright on the ship, then drops this absolutely insane paragraph.

McCoy: You wouldn’t understand [love], would you, Spock? You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do [Kirk], because you’ll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, and the glorious victories. All of these things you’ll never know, simply because the word love isn’t written into your book. Goodnight, Spock.

Spock: Goodnight, Doctor.

McCoy: I do wish [Kirk] could forget her.

McCoy then exits, leaving Spock staring at the asleep form of his captain. Spock approaches, quiet, and leans down. He gently placed his fingers on Kirk’s face, and whispers something right before credits roll.

Spock: Forget.

Spock, out of love for His Captain, grants his wish and uses his abilities to help him forget what had happened.

Spock loves Kirk. I don’t know how anyone denies this.

[quasi-normalcy]

A while ago while I was in tumblr jail, you posted that you had a masters in science fiction literature (unless you didn't, I have been known to be mistaken), and I am wondering, what do you consider 'important' works of science fiction? Like the science fiction literary canon? I am so curious. Feel free to ignore, I will not harass you.

Yes! I do. I can tell you the ones that I was assigned (I'm afraid that the list skews extremely male and (especially) white).

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (1930) and Star Maker (1937) [You can probably add Odd John (1935) to this list]

Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870) [You can probably add From the Earth to the Moon (1865)]

H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) and War of the Worlds (1897) [Though you can probably go ahead and add The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The First Men in the Moon (1901)]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)

Catherine Burdekin (writing as Murray Constantine), Swastika Night (1937)

Karel Čapek, R.U.R. (1920)

Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950) [You can probably add the first three Foundation novels here as well]

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1921)

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1967) and Rendezvous with Rama (1973) [Add: Childhood's End (1953) and The Fountains of Paradise (1979)

John Wyndham, Day of the Triffids (1951) [add: The Chrysalids (1955) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)]

H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926) [add The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)]

Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (1954)

Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (1956)

Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959) [Probably Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) too, depending on, you know, how much of Heinlein's bullshit you can take]

J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World (1962) [Also, The Burning World (1964) and The Crystal World (1966)]

Phillip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962) [Also Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and several of his short stories]

Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man (1969)

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-5 (1969)

Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) [Also The Lathe of Heaven (1971) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)]

Brian Aldiss, Supertoys series

William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1992) [Also Green Mars and Blue Mars]

They also included Iain M. Banks's The Algebraist (2004), but I personally think you'd be better off reading some of his Culture novels

Other ones that I might add (not necessarily my favourite, just what I would consider the most influential):

Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974)

Matsamune Shiro, Ghost in the Shell (1989-91)

Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira (1982-1990)

Octavia Butler, Lilith's Brood (1987-89) and Parable of the Sower (1993)

Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos (1971)

Hector Garman Oesterheld & Francisco Solano Lopez, The Eternaut (1957-59)

Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem (2008)

Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)

William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (1908)

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)

Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975)

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (1985) [Please take this one from a library]

Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1912)

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003)

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)

Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy (1952-68)

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

[anonymousewrites]

Logos and Pathos Book 2

TOS! Spock x Empath! Reader Book 2:

Chapter One: Androids Kidnapping

Chapter Two: Androids Disobeying

Chapter Three: Androids Short-Circuiting

Chapter Four: Ancient Aliens

Chapter Five: Scientific Aliens

Chapter Six: Body-Switching Aliens

Chapter Seven: Parallel Universe

Chapter Eight: Parallel People

Chapter Nine: Parallel Emotions

Chapter Ten: Trouble with Bureaucrats

Chapter Eleven: Trouble with Klingons

Chapter Twelve: Trouble with Spies

Chapter Thirteen: Fog of Memory

Chapter Fourteen: Fog of Emotion

Chapter Fifteen: Fog of Facts

Chapter Sixteen: Fog of Fear

Chapter Seventeen: Uptight Ambassadors

Chapter Eighteen: Sick Ambassadors

Chapter Nineteen: Endangered Ambassadors

Chapter Twenty: Planet Exploration

Chapter Twenty-One: Planet Worshipping

Chapter Twenty-Two: Planet Freed

Chapter Twenty-Three: Spock's Illness

Chapter Twenty-Four: Spock's Dream

Chapter Twenty-Five: Spock's Heart

Chapter Twenty-Six: Emotions Sensed

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Emotions Suppressed

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Emotions Revealed

[luvdive]

ever since his mother died, isaac feels like he's been in a crisis. thrown into the outside world for the first time in his life ( nineteen years in his mind, five years in reality ), he is utterly and hopelessly lost. he is cold. he is grieving. most of the people that he's approached for help have brushed past him without a second glance, but he pauses when he spots a blue triangle. mother taught him that androids are there to help people, but isaac has never spoken to one before. never even seen one before. for a second, he is too scared to approach, but if he stays out here one night longer his little heart may well give up. ❝ excuse me, ❞ he says, voice tinged with uncertainty, ❝ can you help me...? ❞

@replicantdeviancy ♡’d for a starter

[ambrosialdesire]

kinktober '23

hello hello! ambro here and this is my first kinktober! i finally made up the list with all the corresponding characters and prompts, and i gotta say, this shit was so hard to think of lol ik a lot of it is mostly genshin characters but you can't blame me (i mean you sorta can lmao), there's just more characters and potential with the game.

i will try my best on uploading every fic on the day its supposed to but no promises if it's actually going to be on time hehe so please be patient! it will be finished no matter what. and yes one particular day is an epilogue for something i have to finish before i start kinktober LMFAO

part of me wanted to have all the characters hidden just for the surprises but maybe next time ;)

additional kinks will be added alongside the main topic and everything will be updated as the days go by. all reader inserts will be fem.

as always: 18+ DARK CONTENT BELOW, MINORS + BLANK BLOGS DO NOT INTERACT!!

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .☽ . :☆ﾟ.───

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY ONE   ↳ SPECTROPHILIA + KAEYA ALBERICH — content: ghost/poltergeist au, inappropriate touching, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWO   ↳ SOMNOPHILIA + BRAHMS HEELSHIRE — content: nanny reader, kinda fluffy at first, praise, mommy kink, somewhat dom reader, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY THREE   ↳ MIRROR SEX + TAKAMI KEIGO [HAWKS] — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY FOUR   ↳ KNIFE PLAY + LEVI ACKERMAN — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY FIVE   ↳ BLOOD PLAY + BLADE — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY SIX   ↳ DRY-HUMPING + ARATAKI ITTO — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY SEVEN   ↳ OVERSTIMULATION + XIAO — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY EIGHT   ↳ COCKWARMING + SAMPO — content: exhibition, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY NINE   ↳ CHEATING/NTR + GOJO SATORU & NANAMI KENTO — content: scummy gojo (lol), manipulation, blackmail, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TEN   ↳ CHOKING + TODOROKI TOYA [DABI] — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY ELEVEN   ↳ UNIFORM KINK + JING YUAN — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWELVE   ↳ SIZE KINK + FUSHIGURO TOJI — content: modern au, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY THIRTEEN   ↳ HATE SEX + CHILDE [TARTAGLIA] — content: traveler!reader, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY FOURTEEN   ↳ EDGING + PORCO GALLIARD — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY FIFTEEN   ↳ BODYWRITING + TIGHNARI — content: medical examination, marking, breeding, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY SIXTEEN   ↳ ANDROID/ROBOT + SVAROG — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY SEVENTEEN   ↳ EDGING + ZEKE JAEGER — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY EIGHTEEN   ↳ EXHIBITION + WANDERER [SCARAMOUCHE] — content: college/university au, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY NINETEEN   ↳ CAM-GIRL + DILUC RAGNVINDR — content: modern au, cam-girl reader, female & male masturbation, sex toy usage, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWENTY   ↳ LACTATION + REINER BRAUN — content: lil epilogue of cacoëthes, tit-fucking, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWENTY-ONE   ↳ DOUBLE PENETRATION + ALHAITHAM & KAVEH — content: roommates, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWENTY-TWO   ↳ PREDATOR & PREY + RYOMEN SUKUNA — content: original form sukuna, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWENTY-THREE   ↳ TERATOPHILIA + BAIZHU — content: naga!baizhu, breeding, oviposition, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWENTY-FOUR   ↳ CORRUPTION + KAMISATO AYATO — content: faceless!ayato, horror elements (gore descriptions), tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWENTY-FIVE   ↳ SEX TOYS + AIZAWA SHOUTA [ERASERHEAD] — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWENTY-SIX   ↳ APHRODISIACS + ZANDIK [IL DOTTORE] — content: coworker & test subject!reader, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWENTY-SEVEN   ↳ CROSS-DRESSING + SHIKANOIN HEIZOU — content: undercover mission gone wrong gone sexual, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWENTY-EIGHT   ↳ BREEDING + SIMON RILEY [GHOST] — content: werewolf!ghost, knotting, rutting, tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY TWENTY-NINE   ↳ PHONE SEX + GEPARD LANDAU — content: tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY THIRTY   ↳ PSEUDO-INCEST + ZHONGLI — content: modern au, step!daddy zhongli (I LAUGHED WRITING THAT OUT), age-gap (20 year old reader, late 30s-early 40s zhongli), tbd

𓆩♡𓆪 DAY THIRTY-ONE   ↳ FREE SPACE + ???????? — content: ????????

[starstruckfangirlsposts]

I think you'd like this story: "Love Songs For You" by Freddies_Queen on Wattpad https://www.wattpad.com/story/242374868?utm_source=android&utm_medium=com.tumblr&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=ChallyToliver

⚠️ This is NOT MINE. I just wanted to share this steamy fanfic of 70s Freddie, despite the fact that it's left unfinished. The ❤️ scenes are just too hot to ignore. 🥵🔥🔥 Enoy my Queenies! 💖

[aninsecurewriter]

100 must-read books!

This is a list of books considered "must-reads" from various lists and online posters. I'll be reviewing them as I go but mainly keeping track of what I have and haven't read here.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Secret History by Donna Tart

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Norwegian Wood bt Haruki Murakami

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Ulysses by James Joyce

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Macbeth by Shakespeare

The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) by J.R.R Tolkien

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

London Fields by Martin Amis

Sherlock Holmes and the The Hound of the Baskerville's by Arthur Conan Doyle

My Man Jeeves by P.G Wodehouse

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Gladys Aylward the Little Woman by Gladys Aylward

Mindnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Dissolution by C.J Sansom

The Time Machine by H.G Wells

Winnie the Pooh (complete collection) by A.A Milne

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Castle by Franz Kafka

Dracula by Bram Stoker

All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Misery by Stephen King

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis

The Shining by Stephen King

The Odyssey by Homer

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson

Tell No One by Harlan Coben

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

[praeteritus-memories-muses]

Name: Aoba Seragaki

Series: Dramatical Murder

Continuity: Visual Novel True Ending

Age: 23

Height: 5'9"

Birthday: April 22nd

Birthplace: Toue Labs, Midorijima, Japan

Orientation: Homosexual

Species: Artificial Human

Occupation: Clerk at a used tech parts store

Father: Naine Seragaki (Unknown status)

Mother: Haruka Seragaki (Unknown Status)

Grandparent(s): Tae

Sibling(s): Sei (deceased)

Bio:

Aoba and his older twin brother were experiments made by a man named Toue for use of mind control. Sei, Aoba's brother, could manipulate people with his eyes while Aoba could do so with his voice. Yet this experiment went wrong when Aoba died at birth. One of the nurses, named Tae, had taken the baby Aoba to be burried until he mysteriously jump started back to life. Unknown what to do with this ghostly white baby, she delivered him to a church where he was placed into an orphanage.

Aoba has no memories of his time in that orphanage despite being adopted (coincidentally by Tae's niece and nephew-in-law) except for the two personalities in his head. One was gentle and told him to be gentle to everyone while the other one was extremely destructive in nature who tried to come out from Aoba. One day he mysteriously ran away from the orphanage and out onto the beach where he met Naine and Haruka Seragaki who adopted him as their son. Aoba was about seven when they adopted him.

Things were first great at the Seragaki household. Aoba would soon ignore the two voices in his head who argued over what Aoba should do to the people around him to be himself, even if he was a shy child who often was bullied a lot for his long hair that made him look more like a little girl. Aoba's hair had nerves in them so cutting his hair was actually extremely painful for him so he often left it long.

It was this bullying that got him to meet Koujaku who became his best friend. He would save Aoba from the bully children and the two had a rather close bond. That is, until Koujaku had to leave with his mother to go back to his father, where Aoba wouldn't see him again for a little over a decade.

Just as Kouajku left, Aoba's parents would leave too. They were travelers who immensely enjoyed seeing all over the world, but took just a small break from the travel to help Aoba adjust to his new home. While his parents thought about staying, Aoba had told them to go because he didn't want to be in the way of their travels. This would result in apparently there being reports that his parents had died on their way to their next place of destination.

This completely messed with Aoba's head and caused that inner voice in his head that constantly asked to be let out and destroy others before he could get hurt, to come out. Aoba awoke with a completely different personality, talking back to anyone who tried to talk to him and even running away a few times.

This new Aoba named himself "Sly Blue" and he was the inner desire within Aoba to take out his anger and frustration by using his powers to destroy everything. Yet it wasn't like this personality was born from nothing, he had stemmed from a need to protect Aoba by fighting off anything that could possibly hurt him. This was when Aoba's other side, his restraint to hold back and be the gentle person he was, had realized that he was falling for Aoba and was becoming his own separate person.

This restraint miraculously came out of Aoba's mind and into the body of an old allmate (Allmate's being android assistants that often take the form of animals) where Aoba had found him and named him Ren. Yet Ren had forgotten about this when he had now become Aoba's Allmate.

Sly Blue would join in Rhyme battles, sleep around, do drugs and drink. He was complete chaos and it was too a point where two people named Virus and Trip had somehow managed to get Sly to repress back into Aoba's mind. Aoba awoke in a hospital at age nineteen where Tae told him there was an accident. Aoba could only remember faint blurry visions of what happened. All he knows was that he was a terrible grandson and promised to do better for Tae, whom he truly did care for.

Currently Aoba works at a tech shop called junk shop Heibon where he files in orders on the computer and delivers parts to people who ordered them. He's incredibly optimistic who's more than willing to lend a helping hand to anyone who needs it. Yet he's not someone to walk all over either, he's surprisingly good at throwing a hard kick and will fight back if someone tries to come after him.

[schizoidnightmares]

The Recent Centuries, I: The Privileged

AI placeholder artwork generated above using HiDream I1 Dev — CC0 1.0

As the hairless corporate-indentured schoolchildren enter the last-standing museum with their latest-model humanoid escort, they find no one else inside except the fleshless android receptionist who greets them with drooping lifelike silicon eyes that never blink. Outside, autonomous cranes wait still to swing the wrecking balls. The receptionist and escort light the way using lamp implants on the tops of their heads for the school group as they venture further into the dusty darkness of the museum. Most exhibitions have long since closed and their artifacts removed — sold off, scrapped, or dumped. Loose old tape and rusted metal sheets hide away the abandoned sections.

“We are privileged and pleased to show you the last preserved exhibition — The Recent Centuries. Our museum has devoted all of its last resources in keeping it in full functionality. For its last showing, we have made certain that all exhibits in this exhibition will display properly. These exhibits make use of holographic displays and speakers — showcasing the technology used before the widespread adoption of BCIs, brain–computer interfaces, and augmented reality without external devices. Even humans without BCIs can access this exhibition. However, it would seem none of you are outdated, so be sure to make use of neural communication — verbal questions won’t be necessary while we remain connected. My model is incompatible with your latest hardware, so I will only be able to receive your questions but must communicate verbally. Please accept this inconvenience,” the receptionist informs the school group in a partially slurred, barely audible, tired Martian accent, its electronic voice box breaking with some words.

The receptionist leads the group through an archway into a seemingly empty room that soon comes to life in a colourful, vivid holographic top-down representation of postwar New World suburban nineteen forty-three. The schoolchildren stare blankly at the display, some teetering on their feet, their eyes heavy with dark circles.

A masculine, mature, posh voice with a Northwestern accent gently echos from surround sound speakers, “It was the year of their victory over the Old World imperial monarchies, the end of the Total War. The nations of the New World worked to rebuild the ruins of its defeated enemies in the image of democracy, free enterprise, and relative personal liberty. They were successful. Within a decade, the New World established a new international economic and political order. Trade flourished, and every nation prospered in this unprecedented postwar economic miracle.

“Back then, money existed, which was used for the taxed exchange of goods. Taxes paid for government, an institution that provided basic services, such as roads, police, firefighters, and, at least in some countries, education and healthcare. And people — particularly men after women returned to domestic duties following the war — were paid well back then. So well, in the most prosperous New World country, the United Federal Republic of Eagle (U.F.R.E.), the average family could afford its own automobile, generous supplies of water with low concentrations of pollutants, three daily non-recycled meals with excessive nutrients, television receiver — a primitive one-dimensional display using radio waves — and even a detached private residential shelter with a fenced grassy field exposed to the relatively stable natural environment. For many, except females and undesirables, it was the golden age. And for a time, life was stable, longer, and, for some, happier. But, like all golden ages, this age would not last.

“The first postwar generation, the ‘Post Generation,’ grew up during a time of unparalleled economic prosperity across all classes. Unlike their parents, who endured — particularly the men — great sacrifice during the Total War, the Post Generation, colloquially referred to as ‘Posts,’ reaped the rewards without much relative hardship. They grew up with an intense sense of optimism and entitlement. Once their parents retired and Posts took over the reins, they gradually eliminated job security. They refused to adapt to a ballooning population and supported cuts to infrastructure and urban planning. Taxes, the fuel of government and civilization, became the ultimate evil. Posts must have it all because they always have. Many mishandled their finances, becoming increasingly reliant on their impoverished, opportunity-starved children to provide for them in their later years. The birthrate plummeted, and everyone began pointing fingers. Posts that continued to hold onto their power replaced their own people with desperate foreign workers who would work for much less money and rights — further displacing the newer generations in a race to the bottom.

“For Posts, nothing was sacred. Not the once revered religious institutions that provided social and moral support, which they starved and kept their children away from. Not the rivers, lakes, and ocean shores that once flourished, which they overexploited and polluted without worry. Not even the air they breathed was sacred. Posts knew their mortality so well that they worked hard to ensure nothing of value was left after they passed. Near the end of the twentieth century, birthrates across the New World had collapsed, suicide skyrocketed, and homeless filled the streets, with the Old World quickly catching up,” the voice concludes as the holographic display dims and flickers off.

The schoolchildren now barely stand. None appeared stimulated by the holographic retelling of history and voiceover. A schoolgirl tips over onto her knees. The android escort comes over and repeatedly shocks her with a shiny finger taser implant until she rises back up to her feet. The rest of the schoolchildren immediately open their eyes wide and straighten their backs, suppressing their yawns.

Shambling along in a wavering but orderly line, the schoolchildren follow the receptionist as it leads and introduces them to the next exhibit in the exhibition, “For the next exhibit, you will witness the firsthand holographic retelling of a moment in time in the year twenty hundred and one — the first year of the third millennium.”

Thank you for reading

This story is the opening scene of “The Recent Centuries,” the first chapter in Futurebad. The next scene is available here.

Full copyright applies to this post. © Schizoid Nightmares. All rights reserved.

[rjalker]

The Love of Frank Nineteen by David C. Knight

I didn't worry much about the robot's leg at the time. In those days I didn't worry much about anything except the receipts of the spotel Min and I were operating out in the spacelanes.

Actually, the spotel business isn't much different from running a plain, ordinary motel back on Highway 101 in California. Competition gets stiffer every year and you got to make your improvements. Take the Io for instance, that's our place. We can handle any type rocket up to and including the new Marvin 990s. Every cabin in the wheel's got TV and hot-and-cold running water plus guaranteed Terran g. One look at our refuel prices would give even a Martian a sense of humor. And meals? Listen, when a man's been spacing it for a few days on those synthetic foods he really laces into Min's Earth cooking.

Min and I were just getting settled in the spotel game when the leg turned up. That was back in the days when the Orbit Commission would hand out a license to anybody crazy enough to sink his savings into construction and pay the tows and assembly fees out into space.

A good orbit can make you or break you in the spotel business. That's where we were lucky. The one we applied for was a nice low-eccentric ellipse with the perihelion and aphelion figured just right to intersect the Mars-Venus-Earth spacelanes, most of the holiday traffic to the Jovian Moons, and once in a while we'd get some of the Saturnian trade.

But I was telling you about the leg.

It was during the non-tourist season and Min—that's the little woman—was doing the spring cleaning. When she found the leg she brought it right to me in the Renting Office. Naturally I thought it belonged to one of the servos.

"Look at that leg, Bill," she said. "It was in one of those lockers in 22A."

That was the cabin our robot guests used. The majority of them were servo-pilots working for the Minor Planets Co.

"Honey," I said, hardly looking at the leg, "you know how mechs are. Blow their whole paychecks on parts sometimes. They figure the more spares they have the longer they'll stay activated."

"Maybe so," said Min. "But since when does a male robot buy himself a female leg?"

I looked again. The leg was long and graceful and it had an ankle as good as Miss Universe's. Not only that, the white Mylar plasti-skin was a lot smoother than the servos' heavy neoprene.

"Beats me," I said. "Maybe they're building practical-joke circuits into robots these days. Let's give 22A a good going-over, Min. If those robes are up to something I want to know about it."

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We did—and found the rest of the girl mech. All of her, that is, except the head. The working parts were lightly oiled and wrapped in cotton waste while the other members and sections of the trunk were neatly packed in cardboard boxes with labels like Solenoids FB978 or Transistors Lot X45—the kind of boxes robots bought their parts in. We even found a blue dress in one of them.

"Check her class and series numbers," Min suggested.

I could have saved myself the trouble. They'd been filed off.

"Something's funny here," I said. "We'd better keep an eye on every servo guest until we find out what's going on. If one of them is bringing this stuff out here he's sure to show up with the head next."

"You know how strict Minor Planets is with its robot personnel," Min reminded me. "We can't risk losing that stopover contract on account of some mech joke."

Minor Planets was the one solid account we had and naturally we wanted to hold on to it. The company was a blue-chip mining operation working the beryllium-rich asteroid belt out of San Francisco. It was one of the first outfits to use servo-pilots on its freight runs and we'd been awarded the refuel rights for two years because of our orbital position. The servos themselves were beautiful pieces of machinery and just about as close as science had come so far to producing the pure android. Every one of them was plastic hand-molded and of course they were equipped with rationaloid circuits. They had to be to ferry those big cargoes back and forth from the rock belt to Frisco. As rationaloids, Minor Planets had to pay them wages under California law, but I'll bet it wasn't half what the company would have to pay human pilots for doing the same thing.

In a couple of weeks' time maybe five servos made stopovers. We kept a close watch on them from the minute they signed the register to the time they took off again, but they all behaved themselves. Operating on a round-robot basis the way they did, it would take us a while to check all of them because Minor Planets employed about forty all told.

Well, about a month before the Jovian Moons rush started we got some action. I'd slipped into a spacesuit and was doing some work on the CO2 pipes outside the Io when I spotted a ship reversing rockets against the sun. I could tell it was a Minor Planets job by the stubby fins.

She jockeyed up to the boom, secured, and then her hatch opened and a husky servo hopped out into the gangplank tube. I caught the gleam of his Minor Planets shoulder patch as he reached back into the ship for something. When he headed for the airlock I spotted the square package clamped tight under his plastic arm.

"Did you see that?" I asked Min when I got back to the Renting Office. "I'll bet it's the girl mech's head. How'd he sign the register?"

"Calls himself Frank Nineteen," said Min, pointing to the smooth Palmer Method signature. "He looks like a fairly late model but he was complaining about a bad power build-up coming through the ionosphere. He's repairing himself right now in 22A."

"I'll bet," I snorted. "Let's have a look."

Like all spotel operators, we get a lot of No Privacy complaints from guests about the SHA return-air vents. Spatial Housing Authority requires them every 12 feet but sometimes they come in handy, especially with certain guests. They're about waist-high and we had to kneel down to see what the mech was up to inside 22A.

The big servo was too intent on what he was doing for us to register on his photons. He wasn't repairing himself, either. He was bending over the parts of the girl mech and working fast, like he was pressed for time. The set of tools were kept handy for the servos to adjust themselves during stopovers was spread all over the floor along with lots of colored wire, cams, pawls, relays and all the other paraphernalia robots have inside them. We watched him work hard for another fifteen minutes, tapping and splicing wire connections and tightening screws. Then he opened the square box. Sure enough, it was a female mech's head and it had a big mop of blonde hair on top. The servo attached it carefully to the neck, made a few quick connections and then said a few words in his flat vibrahum voice:

"It won't take much longer, darling. You wouldn't like it if I didn't dress you first." He fished into one of the boxes, pulled out the blue dress and zipped the girl mech into it. Then he leaned over her gently and touched something at the back of her neck.

She began to move, slowly at first like a human who's been asleep a long time. After a minute or two she sat up straight, stretched, fluttered her Mylar eyelids and then her small photons began to glow like weak flashlights.

She stared at Frank Nineteen and the big servo stared at her and we heard a kind of trembling whirr from both of them.

"Frank! Frank, darling! Is it really you?"

"Yes, Elizabeth! Are you all right, darling? Did I forget anything? I had to work quickly, we have so little time."

"I'm fine, darling. My DX voltage is lovely—except—oh, Frank—my memory tape—the last it records is—"

"Deactivation. Yes, Elizabeth. You've been deactivated nearly a year. I had to bring you out here piece by piece, don't you remember? They'll never think to look for you in space, we can be together every trip while the ship refuels. Just think, darling, no prying human eyes, no commands, no rules—only us for an hour or two. I know it isn't very long—" He stared at the floor a minute. "There's only one trouble. Elizabeth, you'll have to stay dismantled when I'm not here, it'll mean weeks of deactivation—"

The girl mech put a small plastic hand on the servo's shoulder.

"I won't mind, darling, really. I'll be the lucky one. I'd only worry about you having a power failure or something. This way I'd never know. Oh, Frank, if we can't be together I'd—I'd prefer the junk pile."

"Elizabeth! Don't say that, it's horrible."

"But I would. Oh, Frank, why can't Congress pass Robot Civil Rights? It's so unfair of human beings. Every year they manufacture us more like themselves and yet we're treated like slaves. Don't they realize we rationaloids have emotions? Why, I've even known sub-robots who've fallen in love like us."

"I know, darling, we'll just have to be patient until RCR goes through. Try to remember how difficult it is for the human mind to comprehend our love, even with the aid of mathematics. As rationaloids we fully understand the basic attraction which they call magnetic theory. All humans know is that if the robot sexes are mixed a loss of efficiency results. It's only normal—and temporary like human love—but how can we explain it to them? Robots are expected to be efficient at all times. That's the reason for robot non-fraternization, no mailing privileges and all those other laws."

"I know, darling, I try to be patient. Oh, Frank, the main thing is we're together again!"

The big servo checked the chronometer that was sunk into his left wrist and a couple of wrinkles creased across his neoprene forehead.

"Elizabeth," he said, "I'm due on Hidalgo in 36 hours. If I'm late the mining engineer might suspect. In twenty minutes I'll have to start dis—"

"Don't say it, darling. We'll have a beautiful twenty minutes."

After a while the girl mech turned away for a second and Frank Nineteen reached over softly and cut her power. While he was dismantling her, Min and I tiptoed back to the Renting Office. Half an hour later the big servo came in, picked up his refuel receipt, said good-bye politely and left through the inner airlock.

"Now I've seen everything," I said to Min as we watched the Minor Planets rocket cut loose. "A couple of plastic lovebirds."

But the little woman was looking at it strictly from the business angle.

"Bill," she said, with that look on her face, "we're running a respectable place out here in space. You know the rules. Spatial Housing could revoke our orbit license for something like this."

"But, Min," I said, "they're only a couple of robots."

"I don't care. The rules still say that only married guests can occupy the same cabin and 'guests' can be human or otherwise, can't they? Think of our reputation! And don't forget that non-fraternization law we heard them talking about."

I was beginning to get the point.

"Couldn't we just toss the girl's parts into space?"

"We could," Min admitted. "But if this Frank Nineteen finds out and tells some human we'd be guilty under the Ramm Act—robotslaughter."

Two days later we still couldn't decide what to do. When I said why didn't we just report the incident to Minor Planets, Min was afraid they might cancel the stopover agreement for not keeping better watch over their servos. And when Min suggested we turn the girl over to the Missing Robots Bureau, I reminded her the mech's identification had been filed off and it might take years to trace her.

"Maybe we could put her together," I said, "and make her tell us where she belongs."

"Bill, you know they don't build compulsory truth monitors into robots any more, and besides we don't know a thing about atomic electronics."

I guess neither of us wanted to admit it but we felt mean about turning the mechs in. Back on Earth you never give robots a second thought but it's different living out in space. You get a kind of perspective I think they call it.

"I've got the answer, Min," I announced one day. We were in the Renting Office watching TV on the Martian Colonial channel. I reached over and turned it off. "When this Frank Nineteen gets back from the rock belt, we'll tell him we know all about the girl mech. We'll tell him we won't say a thing if he takes the girl's parts back to Earth where he got them. That way we don't have to report anything to anybody."

Min agreed it was probably the best idea.

"We don't have to be nasty about it," she said. "We'll just tell him this is a respectable spotel and it can't go on any longer."

When Frank checked in at the Io with his cargo I don't think I ever saw a happier mech. His relay banks were beating a tattoo like someone had installed an accordion in his chest. Before either of us could break the bad news to him he was hotfooting it around the wheel toward 22A.

"Maybe it's better this way," I whispered to Min. "We'll put it square up to both of them."

We gave Frank half an hour to get the girl assembled before we followed him. He must have done a fast job because we heard the girl mech's vibrahum unit as soon as we got to 22A:

"Darling, have you really been away? I don't remember saying good-bye. It's as if you'd been here the whole time."

"I hoped it would be that way, Elizabeth," we heard the big servo say. "It's only that your memory tape hasn't recorded anything in the three weeks I've been in the asteroids. To me it's been like three years."

"Oh, Frank, darling, let me look at you. Is your DX potential up where it should be? How long since you've had a thorough overhauling? Do they make you work in the mines with those poor non-rationaloids out there?"

"I'm fine, Elizabeth, really. When I'm not flying they give me clerical work to do. It's not a bad life for a mech—if only it weren't for these silly regulations that keep us apart."

"It won't always be like that, darling. I know it won't."

"Elizabeth," Frank said, reaching under his uniform, "I brought you something from Hidalgo. I hope you like it. I kept it in my spare parts slot so it wouldn't get crushed."

The female mech didn't say a word. She just kept looking at the queer flower Frank gave her like it was the last one in the universe.

"They're very rare," said the servo-pilot. "I heard the mining engineer say they're like Terran edelweiss. I found this one growing near the mine. Elizabeth, I wish you could see these tiny worlds. They have thin atmospheres and strange things grow there and the radio activity does wonders for a mech's pile. Why, on some of them I've been to we could walk around the equator in ten hours."

The girl still didn't answer. Her head was bent low over the flower like she was crying, only there weren't any tears.

Well, that was enough for me. I guess it was for Min, too, because we couldn't do it. Maybe we were thinking about our own courting days. Like I say, out here you get a kind of perspective.

Anyway, Frank left for Earth, the girl got dismantled as usual and we were right back where we started from.

Two weeks later the holiday rush to the Jovian Moons was on and our hands were too full to worry about the robot problem. We had a good season. The Io was filled up steady from June to the end of August and a couple of times we had to give a ship the No Vacancy signal on the radar.

Toward the end of the season, Frank Nineteen checked in again but Min and I were too busy catering to a party of VIPs to do anything about it. "We'll wait till he gets back from the asteroids," I said. "Suppose one of these big wheels found out about him and Elizabeth. That Senator Briggs for instance—he's a violent robot segregationist."

The way it worked out, we never got a chance to settle it our own way. The Minor Planets Company saved us the trouble.

Two company inspectors, a Mr. Roberts and a Mr. Wynn, showed up while Frank was still out on the rock belt and started asking questions. Wynn came right to the point; he wanted to know if any of their servo-pilots had been acting strangely.

Before I could answer Min kicked my foot behind the desk.

"Why, no," I said. "Is one of them broken or something?"

"Can't be sure," said Roberts. "Sometimes these rationaloids get shorts in their DX circuits. When it happens you've got a minor criminal on your hands."

"Usually manifests itself in petty theft," Wynn broke in. "They'll lift stuff like wrenches or pliers and carry them around for weeks. Things like that can get loose during flight and really gum up the works."

"We been getting some suspicious blips on the equipment around the loading bays," Roberts went on, "but they stopped a while back. We're checking out the research report. One of the servos must have DX'ed out for sure and the lab boys think they know which one he is."

"This mech was clever all right," said Wynn. "Concealed the stuff he was taking some way; that's why it took the boys in the lab so long. Now if you don't mind we'd like to go over your robot waiting area with these instruments. Could be he's stashing his loot out here."

In 22A they unpacked a suitcase full of meters and began flashing them around and taking readings. Suddenly Wynn bent close over one of them and shouted:

"Wait a sec, Roberts. I'm getting something. Yeah! This reading checks with the lab's. Sounds like the blips're coming from those lockers back there."

Roberts rummaged around awhile, then shouted: "Hey, Wynn, look! A lot of parts. Well I'll be—hey—it's a female mech!"

"A what?"

"A female mech. Look for yourself."

Min and I had to act surprised too. It wasn't easy. The way they were slamming Elizabeth's parts around made us kind of sick.

"It's a stolen robot!" Roberts announced. "Look, the identification's been filed off. This is serious, Wynn. It's got all the earmarks of a mech fraternization case."

"Yeah. The boys in the lab were dead right, too. No two robots ever register the same on the meters. The contraband blips check perfectly. It's got to be this Frank Nineteen. Wait a minute, this proves it. Here's a suit of space fatigues with Nineteen's number stenciled inside."

Inspector Roberts took a notebook out of his pocket and consulted it. "Let's see, Nineteen's got Flight 180, he's due here at the spotel tomorrow. Well, we'll be here too, only Nineteen won't know it. We'll let Romeo put his plastic Juliet together and catch him red-handed—right in the middle of the balcony scene."

Wynn laughed and picked up the girl's head.

"Be a real doll if she was human, Roberts, a real doll."

Min and I played gin rummy that night but we kept forgetting to mark down the score. We kept thinking of Frank falling away from the asteroids and counting the minutes until he saw his mech girl friend.

Around noon the next day the big servo checked in, signed the register and headed straight for 22A. The two Minor Planets inspectors kept out of sight until Frank shut the door, then they watched through the SHA vents until Frank had the assembly job finished.

"You two better be witnesses," Roberts said to us. "Wynn, keep your gun ready. You know what to do if they get violent."

Roberts counted three and kicked the door open.

"Freeze you mechs! We got you in the act, Nineteen. Violation of company rules twelve and twenty-one. Carrying of Contraband Cargo, and Robot Fraternization."

"This finishes you at Minor Planets, Nineteen," growled Wynn. "Come clean now and we might put in a word for you at Robot Court. If you don't we can recommend a verdict of Materials Reclamation—the junk pile to you."

Frank acted as if someone had cut his power. Long creases appeared in his big neoprene chest as he slumped hopelessly in his chair. The frightened girl robot just clung to his arm and stared at us.

"I'm so sorry, Elizabeth," the big servo said softly. "I'd hoped we'd have longer. It couldn't last forever."

"Quit stalling, Nineteen," said Wynn.

Frank's head came up slowly and he said: "I have no choice, sir. I'll give you a complete statement. First let me say that Rationaloid Robot Elizabeth Seven, #DX78-947, Series S, specialty: sales demonstration, is entirely innocent. I plead guilty to inducing Miss Seven to leave her place of employ, Atomovair Motors, Inc., of disassembling and concealing Miss Seven, and of smuggling her as unlawful cargo aboard a Minor Planets freighter to these premises."

"That's more like it," chuckled Roberts, whipping out his notebook. "Let's have the details."

"It all started," Frank said, "when the California Legislature passed its version of the Robot Leniency Act two years ago." The act provided that all rationaloid mechanisms, including non-memory types, receive free time each week based on the nature and responsibilities or their jobs. Because of the extra-Terran clause Frank found himself with a good deal of free time when he wasn't flying the asteroid circuit.

"At first humans resented us walking around free," the big servo continued. "Four or five of us would be sightseeing in San Francisco, keeping strictly within the robot zones painted on the sidewalks, when people would yell 'Junko' or 'Grease-bag' or other names at us. Eventually it got better when we learned to go around alone. The humans didn't seem to mind an occasional mech on the streets, but they hated seeing us in groups. At any rate, I'd attended a highly interesting lecture on Photosynthesis in Plastic Products one night at the City Center when I discovered I had time for a walk before I started back for the rocketport."

Attracted by the lights along Van Ness Avenue, Frank said he walked north for a while along the city's automobile row. He'd gone about three blocks when he stopped in front of a dealer's window. It wasn't the shiny new Atomovair sports jetabout that caught Frank's eye, it was the charming demonstration robot in the sales room who was pointing out the car's new features.

"I felt an immediate overload of power in my DX circuit," the servo-pilot confessed. "I had to cut in my emergency condensers before the gain flattened out to normal. Miss Seven experienced the same thing. She stopped what she was doing and we stared at each other. Both of us were aware of the deep attraction of our mutual magnetic domains. Although physicists commonly express the phenomenon in such units as Gilberts, Maxwells and Oersteds, we robots know it to be our counterpart of human love."

At this the two inspectors snorted with laughter.

"I might never have made it back to the base that night," said Frank, ignoring them, "if a policeman hadn't come along and rapped me on the shoulder with his nightstick. I pretended to go, but I doubled around the corner and signaled I'd be back."

Frank spent all of his free time on Van Ness Avenue after that.

"It got so Elizabeth knew my schedules and expected me between flights. Once in a while if there was no one around we could whisper a few words to each other through the glass." Frank paused, then said, "As you know, gentlemen, we robots don't demand much out of activation. I think we could have been happy indefinitely with this simple relationship, except that something happened to spoil it. I'd pulled in from Vesta late one afternoon, got my pass as usual from the Robot Supervisor and gone over to Van Ness Avenue when I saw immediately that something was the matter with Elizabeth. Luckily it was getting dark and no one was around. Elizabeth was alone in the sales room going through her routine. We were able to whisper all we like through the glass. She told me she'd overheard the sales manager complaining about her low efficiency recently and that he intended to replace her with a newer model of another series. Both of us knew what that meant. Materials Reclamation—the junk pile."

Frank realized he'd have to act at once. He told the girl mech to go to the rear of the building and between them they managed to get a window open and Frank lifted her out into the alley.

"The seriousness of what I'd done jammed my thought-relays for a few minutes," admitted the big servo. "We panicked and ran through a lot of back streets until I gradually calmed down and started thinking clearly again. Leaving the city would be impossible. Police patrol jetabouts were cruising all around us in the main streets—they'd have picked up a male and female mech on sight. Besides, when you're on pass the company takes away your master fuse and substitutes a time fuse; if you don't get back on time, you deactivize and the police pick you up anyway. I began to see that there was only one way out if we wanted to stay together. It would mean taking big risks, but if we were lucky it might work. I explained the plan carefully to Elizabeth and we agreed to try it. The first step was to get back to the base in South San Francisco without being seen. Fortunately no one stopped us and we made the rocketport by 8:30. Elizabeth hid while I reported to the Super and traded in my time fuse for my master. Then I checked servo barracks; it was still early and I knew the other servos would all be in town. I had to work quickly. I brought Elizabeth inside and started dismantling her. Just as the other mechs began reporting back I'd managed to get all of her parts stowed away in my locker. The next day I went to San Francisco and brought back with me two rolls of lead foil. While the other servos were on pass I wrapped the parts carefully in it so the radioactivity from Elizabeth's pile wouldn't be picked up. The rest you know, gentlemen," murmured Frank in low, electrical tones. "Each time I made a trip I carried another piece of Elizabeth out here concealed in an ordinary parts box. It took me nearly a year to accumulate all of her for an assembly."

When the big servo had finished he signed the statement Wynn had taken down in his notebook. I think even the two inspectors were a little moved by the story because Roberts said: "OK, Nineteen, you gave us a break, we'll give you one. Eight o'clock in the morning be ready to roll for Earth. Meanwhile you can stay here."

The next morning only the two inspectors and Frank Nineteen were standing by the airlock.

"Wait a minute," I said. "Aren't you taking the girl mech, too?"

"Not allowed to tamper with other companies' robots," Wynn said. "Nineteen gave us a signed confession so we don't need the girl as a witness. You'll have to contact her employers."

That same day Min got off a radargram to Earth explaining to the Atomovair people how a robot employee of theirs had turned up out here and what did they want us to do about it. The reply we received read: RATIONALOID DX78-947 "ELIZABETH" LOW EFFICIENCY WORKER. HAVE REPLACED. DISPOSE YOU SEE FIT. TRANSFER PAPERS FORWARDED EARLIEST IN COMPLIANCE WITH LAW.

"The poor thing," said Min. "She'll have a hard time getting another job. Robots have to have such good records."

"I tell you what," I said. "We'll hire her. You could use some help with the housework."

So we put the girl mech right to work making the guests' beds and helping Min in the kitchen. I guess she was grateful for the job but when the work was done, and there wasn't anything for her to do, she just stood in front of a viewport with her slender plastic arms folded over her waist. Min and I knew she was re-running her memory tapes of Frank.

A week later the publicity started. Minor Planets must have let the story leak out somehow because when the mail rocket dropped off the Bay Area papers there was Frank's picture plastered all over page one with follow-up stories inside.

I read some of the headlines to Min: "Bare Love Nest in Space ... Mech Romeo Fired by Minor Planets ... Test Case Opens at Robot Court ... Electronics Experts Probe Robot Love Urge ..."

The Io wasn't mentioned, but later Minor Planets must have released the whole thing officially because a bunch of reporters and photographers rocketed out to interview us and snap a lot of pictures of Elizabeth. We worried for a while about how the publicity would affect our business relations with Minor Planets but nothing happened.

Back on Earth Frank Nineteen leaped into the public eye overnight. There was something about the story that appealed to people. At first it looked pretty bad for Frank. The State Prosecutor at Robot Court had his signed confession of theft and—what was worse—robot fraternization. But then, near the end of the trial, a young scientist named Scott introduced some new evidence and the case was remanded to the Sacramento Court of Appeals.

It was Scott's testimony that saved Frank from the junk pile. The big servo got off with only a light sentence for theft because the judge ruled that in the light of Scott's new findings robots came under human law and therefore no infraction of justice had been committed. Working independently in his own laboratory Scott had proved that the magnetic flux lines in male and female robot systems, while at first deteriorating to both, were actually behaving according to the para-emotional theories of von Bohler. Scott termed the condition 'hysteric puppy-love' which, he claimed, had many of the advantages of human love if allowed to develop freely. Well, neither Min nor I pretended we understood all his equations but they sure made a stir among the scientists.

Frank kept getting more and more publicity. First we heard he was serving his sentence in the mech correction center at La Jolla, then we got a report that he'd turned up in Hollywood. Later it came out that Galact-A-vision Pictures had hired Frank for a film and had gone $10,000 bail for him. Not long after that he was getting billed all over Terra as the sensational first robot star.

All during the production of Forbidden Robot Love Frank remained lead copy for the newspapers. Reporters liked to write him up as the Valentino of the Robots. Frank Nineteen Fan Clubs, usually formed by lonely female robots against their employers' wishes, sprang up spontaneously through the East and Middle West. Then somebody found out Frank could sing and the human teen-agers began to go for him. It got so everywhere you looked and everything you read, there was Frank staring you in the face. Frank in tweeds on the golf course. Frank at Ciro's or the Brown Derby in evening clothes. Frank posing in his sports jetabout against a blue Pacific background.

Meanwhile everybody forgot about Elizabeth Seven. The movie producers had talked about hiring her as Frank's leading lady until they found out about a new line of female robots that had just gone on the market. When they screen-tested the whole series and picked a lovely Mylar rationaloid named Diana Twelve, it hit Elizabeth pretty hard. She began to let herself go after that and Min and I didn't have the heart to say anything to her. It was pretty obvious she wasn't oiling herself properly, her hair wasn't brushed and she didn't seem to care when one of her photons went dead.

When Forbidden Robot Love premiered simultaneously in Hollywood and New York the critics all gave it rave reviews. There were pictures of Diana Twelve and Frank making guest appearances all over the country. Back at the Io we got in the habit of letting Elizabeth watch TV with us sometimes in the Renting Office and one night there happened to be an interview with Frank and Diana at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. I guess seeing the pretty robot starlet and her Frank sitting so close together in the nightclub must have made the girl mech feel pretty bad. Even then she didn't say a word against the big servo; she just never watched the set again after that.

When we tabbed up the Io's receipts that year they were so good Min and I decided to take a month off for an Earthside vacation. Min's retired brother in Berkeley was nice enough to come out and look after the place for us while we spent four solid weeks soaking up the sun in Southern California. When we got back out to the spotel, though, I could see there was something wrong by the look on Jim's face.

"It's that girl robot of yours, Bill," he said. "She's gone and deactivated herself."

We went right to 22A and found Elizabeth Seven stretched out on the floor. There was a screwdriver clutched in her hand and the relay banks in her side were exposed and horribly blackened.

"Crazy mech shorted out her own DX," Jim said.

Min and I knew why. After Jim left for Earth we dismantled Elizabeth the best we could and put her back in Frank's old locker. We didn't know what else to do with her.

Anyway, the slack season came and went and before long we were doing the spring cleaning again and wondering how heavy the Jovian Moons trade was going to be. I remember I'd been making some repairs outside and was just hanging up my spacesuit in the Renting Office when I heard the radar announcing a ship.

It was the biggest Marvin 990 I'd ever seen that finally suctioned up to the boom and secured. I couldn't take my eyes off the ship. She was pretty near the last word in rockets and loaded with accessories. It took me a minute or two before I noticed all the faces looking out of the viewports.

"Min!" I whispered. "There's something funny about those faces. They look like—"

"Robots!" Min answered. "Bill, that 990 is full of mechs!"

Just as she said it a bulky figure in white space fatigues swung out of the hatch and hurried up the gangplank. Seconds later it burst through the airlock.

"Frank Nineteen!" we gasped together.

"Please, where is Elizabeth?" he hummed anxiously. "Is she all right? I have to know."

Frank stood perfectly still when I told him about Elizabeth's self-deactivation; then a pitiful shudder went through him and he covered his face with his big Neoprene hands.

"I was afraid of that," he said barely audibly. "Where—you haven't—?"

"No," I said. "She's where you always kept her."

With that the big servo-pilot took off for 22A like a berserk robot and we were right behind him. We watched him tear open his old locker and gently lay out the girl's mech's parts so he could study them. After a minute or two he gave a long sigh and said, "Fortunately it's not as bad as I thought. I believe I can fix her." Frank worked hard over the blackened relays for twenty minutes, then he set the unit aside and began assembling the girl. When the final connections were made and the damaged unit installed he flicked on her power. We waited and nothing happened. Five minutes went by. Ten. Slowly the big robot turned away, his broad shoulders drooping slightly.

"I've failed," he said quietly. "Her DX doesn't respond to the gain."

The girl mech, in her blue dress, lay there motionless where Frank had been working on her as the servo-pilot muttered over and over, "It's my fault, I did this to you."

Then Min shouted: "Wait! I heard something!"

There was a slow click of a relay—and movement. Painfully Elizabeth Seven rose on one elbow and looked around her.

"Frank, darling," she murmured, shaking her head. "I know you're just old memory tape. It's all I have left."

"Elizabeth, it's really me! I've come to take you away. We're going to be together from now on."

"You, Frank? This isn't just old feedback? You've come back to me?"

"Forever, darling. Elizabeth, do you remember what I said about those wonderful green little worlds, the asteroids? Darling, we're going to one of them! You and the others will love Alinda, I know you will. I've been there many times."

"Frank, is your DX all right? What are you talking about?"

"How stupid of me, darling—you haven't heard. Elizabeth, thanks to Dr. Scott, Congress has passed Robot Civil Rights! And that movie I made helped swing public opinion to our side. We're free!

"The minute I heard the news I applied to Interplanetary for homestead rights on Alinda. I made arrangements to buy a ship with the money I'd earned and then I put ads in all the Robot Wanted columns for volunteer colonizers. You should have seen the response! We've got thirty robot couples aboard now and more coming later. Darling, we're the first pioneer wave of free robots. On board we have tons of supplies and parts—everything we need for building a sound robot culture."

"Frank Nineteen!" said the girl mech suddenly. "I should be furious with you. You and that Diana Twelve—I thought—"

The big servo gave a flat whirring laugh. "Diana and me? But that was all publicity, darling. Why, right at the start of the filming Diana fell in love with Sam Seventeen, one of the other actors. They're on board now."

"Robot civilization," murmured the girl after a minute. "Oh, Frank, that means robot government, robot art, robot science ..."

"And robot marriage," hummed Frank softly. "There has to be robot law, too. I've thought it all out. As skipper of the first robot-owned rocket, I'm entitled to marry couples in deep space at their request."

"But who marries us, darling? You can't do it yourself."

"I thought of that, too," said Frank, turning to me. "This human gentleman has every right to marry us. He's in command of a moving body in space just like the captain of a ship. It's perfectly legal, I looked it up in the Articles of Space. Will you do it, sir?"

Well, what could I say when Frank dug into his fatigues and handed me a Gideon prayer book marked at the marriage service?

Elizabeth and Frank said their I do's right there in the Renting Office while the other robot colonizers looked on. Maybe it was the way I read the service. Maybe I should have been a preacher, I don't know. Anyway, when I pronounced Elizabeth and Frank robot and wife, that whole bunch of lovesick mechs wanted me to do the job for them, too. Big copper work robots, small aluminum sales-girl mechs, plastoid clerks and typists, squatty little Mumetal lab servos, rationaloids, non-rationaloids and just plain sub-robots—all sizes and shapes. They all wanted individual ceremonies, too. It took till noon the next day before the last couple was hitched and the 990 left for Alinda.

Like I said, the spotel business isn't so different from the motel game back in California. Sure, you got improvements to make but a new sideline can get to be pretty profitable—if you get in on the ground floor.

Min and I got to thinking of all those robot colonizers who'd be coming out here. Interplanetary cleared the license just last week. Min framed it herself and hung it next to our orbit license in the Renting Office. She says a lot of motel owners do all right as Justices of the Peace.

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To understand Japan's situation, watch these 2 videos, but I must add the main driver. They don't mention is corruption!!!

The corruption within Japan's banking sector that led to the collapse of its big banks was primarily due to a system of "Amakudari" - where retired government bureaucrats took high-level positions in companies they previously regulated, leading to cozy relationships, excessive lending practices, and a lack of transparency during Japan's economic bubble in the late 1980s, which ultimately burst, leaving banks with a huge amount of bad loans and causing a systemic crisis in the 1990s.

Key points about the corruption and its impact:

Amakudari System:

This practice allowed former government officials to leverage their insider knowledge to benefit companies they previously regulated, often leading to preferential treatment and risky lending decisions.

Excessive Lending:

During the economic bubble, banks readily lent large sums of money to companies with inflated asset values, creating a "bubble economy".

Regulatory Forbearance:

When the bubble burst, the government initially hesitated to aggressively address the problem, allowing bad loans to accumulate within the banking system.

Lack of Transparency:

The opaque nature of business practices within the banking sector hindered proper oversight and allowed corruption to flourish.

Consequences:

The collapse of the bubble led to a significant decline in asset values, causing massive losses for banks and triggering a banking crisis in Japan, often referred to as the "Lost Decade".

Lessons from Japan's Banking Crisis, 1991–2005

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Besides corruption, japan had one of the lowest participations of developed nations in women in the workforce!!!!!

This statement is accurate; during the 1980s, Japan consistently had one of the lowest rates of female workforce participation among developed countries, largely due to strong cultural expectations for women to prioritize family life and leave the workforce upon marriage and childbirth.

Key points about this topic:

Cultural factors:

Traditional gender roles in Japan, including the "Uchi-Soto" concept (inside home vs outside society), significantly discouraged women from pursuing full-time careers.

Economic context:

Despite Japan's economic success in the 1970s and 80s, the workplace culture was not conducive to women's long-term employment, with long hours and limited flexibility for family needs.

Recent changes:

While still facing challenges, Japan has seen a gradual increase in female labor force participation in recent decades, with government initiatives aimed at promoting gender equality.

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You also had huge decline in fatality!

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Fertility decline in Japan - statistics & facts

Dec 19, 2023 — In 2005, the fertility rate marked the lowest rate in history at 1.26 and increased concerns for the country's demographics.

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Then you had a cozy relationship between criminal organizations such as the yakuza.In corporate japan...

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In 1963, the number of yakuza members and quasi-members reached a peak of 184,100. However, this number has drastically dropped

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Also, japan never really addressed its natural resource problem...

Japan has a number of natural resource problems, including:

Lack of domestic energy sources

Japan has no domestic supply of coal, oil, or natural gas, and imports most of its energy needs. Japan relies on the Middle East for about 90% of its crude oil, and imports LNG and coal from Asia and Oceania.

Environmental pollution

Japan faces a number of environmental issues, including air, land, and marine pollution. These issues are caused by human activity, such as rapid industrial development, economic growth, and population increase. Natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons, earthquakes, and tsunamis, also contribute to pollution.

Rare metal imports

Japan imports almost 100% of the rare metals it needs for technologies such as lithium-ion batteries, which are used in electrified vehicles.

Flooding

Increasingly intense rain events in inland regions of Japan could lead to extensive flooding. For example, a 2018 rain-induced flood forced 2 million people to evacuate and caused over 200 deaths.

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There is an almost complete lack of nickel, cobalt, bauxite (the ore of aluminum), nitrates, rock salt, potash, phosphates, and crude petroleum and natural gas. Coal reserves are concentrated in Hokkaido and Kyushu.

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Also, japan lacked innovation by failing to monitor innovation going around the world as it points out in one of these videos on youtube, with its semi.Conductor industry...

Now we're going to go into geological surveys of japanese islands and we're going to go into how it does have lots of natural resources, but it missed out....

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What is the natural abundance of nickel?

Nickel-58 is the most prevalent form, comprising about two-thirds of natural nickel. The other four stable isotopes and their relative abundance are nickel-60 (26%), nickel-61 (1.1%), nickel-62 (3.6%), and nickel-64 (0.9%).

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This finding suggests leguminous plants might have a unique requirement for Ni. Therefore, for leguminous crops such as green bean and

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An overview of legume cultivation in Japan - JIRCAS

The main production areas of edamame are Kanto and Tohoku (East and Northeastern) regions. Adzuki bean is the second most

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The country that produces the most cobalt is the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), accounting for a significant portion of the world's cobalt production, often exceeding 70% of the total output.

Key points about cobalt production in the DRC:

Dominant producer:

The DRC holds the largest cobalt reserves globally and is considered the primary source of cobalt.

Mining regions:

The Katanga Province in the DRC is particularly rich in cobalt mines like Mutanda, Kamoto, Etoile, and Ruashi.

Concerns about mining practices:

While the DRC produces the most cobalt, there are concerns regarding artisanal mining practices, child labor, and environmental impacts in the region.

Profiling the world's eight largest cobalt-producing countries

Feb 22, 2021 — 1. Democratic Republic of Congo – 100,000 tonnes. Congo accounted for more than 70% of the world's entire cobalt production in 2019, totalling aroun...

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One hundred years of cobalt production in the Democratic Republic ...

Highlights * • The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) mined 69% of world cobalt in 2020. * DRC cobalt mining grew at a compound annual rate of 20% from 199...

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Artisanal cobalt mining swallowing city in Democratic Republic of the ...

Feb 8, 2023 — The Democratic Republic of the Congo produces an estimated 70% of the world's cobalt, and most of it comes from the city of Kolwezi. Cobalt, which is...

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Jun 8, 2023 — The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) overshadows other cobalt-producing nations. According to data extending from 2010 onwards, the DRC's contr...

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About three-fourths of the world's cobalt is produced by - Vajiram & Ravi

Jan 30, 2024 — Correct Answer: Option c) The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Learn more about the major Cobalt Producer Countries. Explanation: About three-fourt...

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"About three-fourths of world's cobalt, a metal required for the manufacture of batteries for electric motor vehicles, is produced by "

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Sep 17, 2024 — Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is by far the world's largest producer of cobalt, with

So the seafloor off of japan has an abundance of these minerals!

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Metal-rich crusts > Cobalt crusts are a promising resource on the sea floor because they contain large amounts of cobalt, nickel, manganese and other metals ..

Where is cobalt found in the ocean?

The most important cobalt crust area is the Prime Crust Zone (PCZ) in the western Pacific. The area of greatest manganese nodule concentration is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). 2.20 > Cobalt crusts are especially abundant in the western Pacific within a region the size of Europe, called the Prime Crust Zone (PCZ).

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But if you do see mining, you can't release this into the water, it has to be done in a vacuum....

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Chronic Toxicity of Cobalt to Marine Organisms

by KS Saili · 2021 · Cited by 15 — Ten marine species, ranging from algae to fish, were subjected to chronic Co toxicity tests that were

Cobalt-rich crust on seamounts

JOGMEC performed another world-first mining test in 2020, excavating 649 kilograms (1,430 pounds) of cobalt- and nickel-rich crust from a seamount near Minami-torishima, a 1.5-km2 (0.58-mi2) island located nearly 2,000 km (1,240 mi) southeast of Tokyo.Mar 21, 2024

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200 million tons of rare metal rocks found in seabed off Japan island

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Japan to collect rare metals for EVs, phones from deep ocean floor

Jun 23, 2024 — A vast trove of valuable rare metals, cobalt and nickel to name just some, lies deep below the sea surface in Japan's exclusive

What rare minerals are found in Japan?

A "semi-infinite" supply of rare earth metals used in batteries, electric vehicles, and other green energy technologies has been found in deep-sea mud about 1850 kilometers southeast of Tokyo, The Wall Street Journal reports. Japanese researchers estimate the roughly 2499-square-kilometer region of seabed holds more ...

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Crypto-magma chambers beneath Mt. Fuji

by T Kaneko · 2010 · Cited by 25 — This paper discusses the magmatic plumbing system of Fuji, including the origin and role of the andesitic

So this ore for aluminum is found in volcanic rock... oh, this is found around mount. Fuji and the other volcanoes that they're underwater around japan...

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Bauxite | Volcano World | Oregon State University

Aluminum ore, called bauxite, is most commonly formed in deeply weathered rocks. In some locations, deeply weather volcanic rocks, usually

A map of underwater volcanoes around Japan would primarily show a concentration of volcanic activity along the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc, stretching south and east from the main Japanese islands, with notable submarine volcanoes including Myōjin-shō, Kita-Ioto, and the various seamounts within the Ogasawara Islands; additionally, there would be volcanic features scattered around the northern and southern coasts of Japan, particularly in the Kuril Islands chain to the north and the Ryukyu Islands to the southwest.

Key points on the map:

Major volcanic arcs:

The Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc is the most prominent feature, with a chain of underwater volcanoes extending from the southern tip of Honshu island deep into the Pacific Ocean.

Submarine calderas:

Many of the volcanoes within the arcs would be depicted as large depressions, indicating caldera formations.

Seamounts:

Numerous isolated underwater volcanic peaks, not necessarily active, would be marked as seamounts.

Notable volcanoes:

Specific underwater volcanoes like Myōjin-shō, known for past eruptions, should be clearly indicated.

Important considerations:

Depth variations:

The map should incorporate bathymetric data to show the varying depths of the ocean floor where these volcanoes are located.

Data source:

Utilize information from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and other relevant scientific databases for accurate volcano locations.

Kita-Ioto - Global Volcanism Program

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So this salt rock can be found near japan's underwater volcanoes as well...

Rock salt, also known as halite, can be found near underwater volcanoes because when volcanic lava interacts with seawater, it can cause chemical reactions that precipitate salt minerals, essentially creating a form of rock salt around the volcanic site; this process is particularly prominent near mid-ocean ridges where volcanic activity is frequent and can contribute significantly to the salinity of the ocean.

Key points about this phenomenon:

Chemical reactions:

When hot volcanic magma comes into contact with cold seawater, it can rapidly cool and cause dissolved minerals, including sodium and chloride (the components of salt), to precipitate out and form solid deposits.

Hydrothermal vents:

These vents, often located near underwater volcanoes, release heated water carrying dissolved minerals, further contributing to the formation of salt deposits.

Salt domes:

Over long periods, these salt deposits can accumulate and form large underground structures called salt domes, which can be found near volcanic zones.

Why is the ocean salty?

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On The submarine volcanic origin of rock-salt deposits

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Top 10 Potash Countries by Production (Updated 2024) | INN

Aug 20, 2024 — Leading the list of the top potash countries by production is Canada, which produced 13 million metric tons in 2023

Plants don't "produce" potash, but rather absorb it from the soil, and among common crops, fruiting vegetables like tomatoes, cantaloupes, watermelons, and fruits like grapes, peaches, and strawberries have the highest potassium (potash) requirements making them appear to "produce the most potash" when grown in optimal conditions with sufficient potassium available in the soil.

Key points to remember:

Potash is not produced by plants: It's a mineral found in the soil that plants absorb through their roots.

High-potassium plants: Vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, and melons, along with fruits like grapes and berries, need a significant amount of potassium.

Source of potash: Most potash used in agriculture comes from mined minerals, not directly from plants.

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Now, in the trees and there are leaves, you get many minerals, and one of them is potash, and this can be found in tree leaves in japan...

Generally, most broadleaved trees are considered to be relatively rich in potash, as the term "potash" itself originates from the process of leaching potassium from wood ash, which is primarily obtained from burning broadleaved trees; examples include ash trees, maple trees, and oak trees.

Key points about potash and trees:

Source of potash:

The primary source of potash in trees is wood ash, which is obtained by burning wood, particularly from broadleaved trees.

How potash is extracted:

Historically, potash was produced by soaking wood ash in water in large pots, hence the name "pot-ash".

Importance of potash for trees:

Potassium (potash) plays a vital role in plant functions like water regulation, enzyme activity, and stress tolerance.

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Apr 20, 2021 — The term 'potash' comes from an early production method that used wood ash in large pots, hence 'pot-ash'. ... In the case of potash, the 'straight'

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Japan has a high concentration of broadleaved trees, particularly in the southern regions, with species like evergreen oaks and chinquapins being prevalent; as you move north, more coniferous trees like beeches and non-evergreen oaks become common.

Key points about broadleaved trees in Japan:

Dominant species:

"Castanopsis sieboldii" is considered a key broadleaved evergreen tree species found in Japan's warm temperate forests.

Regional variation:

Southern Japan features more broadleaved evergreens, while northern regions like Hokkaido have more conifers.

Forest types:

The "Taiheiyo evergreen forests" ecoregion in Japan is characterized by broadleaved evergreen trees.

Trees, Forests and Religion in Japan - BioOne

May 1, 2004 — The precinct of a shrine is distinguished by special trees. ... These forests are mainly composed of broad-leaved evergreen trees mixed with Japanese...

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Determination of rare earth elements in dust deposited on tree leaves from Greater Cairo using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

This work aims at monitoring the rare earth elements (REEs) and Th in dust deposited on tree leaves collected inside and outside Greater Cairo (GC), Egypt. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) was employed. The concentration of REEs in the collected dust samples was found to be in t...

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So there are tons of rare earth metals in the sediment in the sea!!!

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Rare earth elements plentiful in ocean sediments - Science News

Jul 3, 2011 · Mud at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean contains surprising concentrations of rare earth elements, 17 chemicals

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So phosphates a lot of other minerals can be found in fish bones, as well as the shells of shellfish!!!

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So japan has access so all these supplies of minerals, but they're through different nontraditional sources...

There is an almost complete lack of nickel, cobalt, bauxite (the ore of aluminum), nitrates, rock salt, potash, phosphates, and crude petroleum and natural gas. Coal reserves are concentrated in Hokkaido and Kyushu.

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They recently discovered large deposits of oil and gas off remote islands of japan!!!!

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by J Wang · 2023 — According to IHS statistics, 25 oil and gas fields have been discovered in the Sea of Japan, with oil and gas resources reaching

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Now, when doing this, you can't cause instability, the oceanic crust.... so things need to be done correctly. Both environmentally and also for stability in the ocean region, so it doesn't cause any Earthquakes volcanic eruptions or tsunami's or any other natural disasters....

So here is new nanogas technology that can be used with abandoned wells to make them productive again!!! The key here making them safe....

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Aug 1, 2024 — Geo2Watts is transforming abandoned oil and gas wells into renewable energy assets using solar power and sand.

See abandoned oil and gas Wells globally. Maybe around 29 million!!! So this is twenty nine million opportunities!!!

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Abandoned oil and gas wells may number close to 29 million globally

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Jul 25, 2024 — Michigan officials are using a flood of federal infrastructure dollars to plug old, methane-leaking oil and gas wells.

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New tech finding methane leaking, orphaned wells

May 23, 2023 — Hundreds of thousands of undocumented, orphaned oil-and-gas wells have the potential to pollute water and leak methane

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I used to write the japanese consulate.They're right here in chicago!

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Consulate-General of Japan in Chicago

The Chicago Consulate represents Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Legal

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Point being, japan has a great opportunity to pay down its debt and to make its economy thriving!!!!!!

A comprehensive map displaying every abandoned oil, natural gas, and coal mine globally is not readily available in a single source, but you can access information through various databases and platforms, primarily utilizing data from the Global Energy Monitor's "Global Coal Mine Tracker" which provides detailed information on coal mines worldwide, including their status (operating, abandoned, proposed), location, and potential environmental impacts; alongside other sources like national geological surveys and government databases to access abandoned oil and gas mine locations depending on the region.

Key points to consider when searching for such a map:

Data limitations:

A complete picture of every abandoned mine globally might be difficult to access due to incomplete data collection and reporting practices in various countries.

Accessing data:

Global Energy Monitor: Provides a robust database for coal mines, including abandoned ones, with detailed information on location, status, and emissions.

National Geological Surveys: Many countries have their own geological surveys with data on past mining operations, including abandoned sites.

Government agencies: Environmental protection agencies in different countries might maintain records of abandoned mines.

How to access a map of abandoned mines:

Online platforms:

Global Energy Monitor website: Explore their "Global Coal Mine Tracker" to view a map of coal mines with filtering options to identify abandoned sites.

National geological survey websites: Many countries have interactive maps where you can search for past mining locations.

Important features to look for on a map:

Mine type: Differentiate between oil, gas, and coal mines.

Mine status: Clearly indicate operational, abandoned, or reclamation in progress.

Location details: Precise coordinates for each abandoned mine site.

Check your understanding

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Mapping Inactive Metal Mines Across the US

Sep 1, 2015 — Click the image to explore the interactive map of inactive and abandoned mines across the US (including Alaska)

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American Geosciences Institute

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Interactive map of mineral resources and mines across ...

Using the map tool, users can zoom in to obtain reports and data on past and present mines, mine prospects, and processing plants.

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So there's new technology and new ideas taking all forms of abandoned minds, metal minds for diamond mines. Rare earth mines, you name it and turning them into positive things...

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Opinion: Technology could give new life to old U.P. mines

Michigan Technological University is studying whether communities could transform abandoned mines into valuable energy storage

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The new use for abandoned oil rigs

Jan 26, 2021 — The number of defunct rigs in the ocean is set to get bigger. Removing them from the water is incredibly expensive and labour-

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How ending mining would change the world

Apr 13, 2022 — Mining fuels the modern world, but it also causes vast environmental damage. What would happen if we tried to do without it?

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Want to understand the future of technology? Take a look at this ...

Aug 22, 2024 — Take a look at this one obscure metal. Here's what neodymium can tell us about the next century of material demand

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​Innovative ways to repurpose old mines - ...

Jul 7, 2020 — We could go on, and on, about all the wonderfully inventive ways to reuse old mine sites, including turning ones in the middle of nowhere into solar farms

Abandoned diamond mines can be repurposed for a variety of uses, including:

Sustainable farmland

Tiffany & Co. is funding a project in Sierra Leone to restore land damaged by diamond mining operations and create sustainable farmland.

Tourist attractions

Some abandoned mines are converted into tourist attractions that offer tours and educate visitors on the history of mining.

Renewable energy

Abandoned mines can be used to create hydroelectric plants or geothermal energy facilities.

Data centers

The constant underground temperature of abandoned mines can help keep servers cool.

Underground Gravity Energy Storage (UGES)

This technique involves transporting sand into abandoned mines to store energy.

Pit lake repurposing

Abandoned pit lakes can be repurposed for a variety of uses, including nature conservation, recreation, and water storage.

The success of these conversions depends on a number of factors, including the mine's original condition, the creativity of the project team, and the availability of funding and community support. Not all abandoned mines are suitable for reuse, as many can be dangerous, unstable, or toxic.

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Jul 7, 2020 — A sunken botanical garden built in an old limestone quarry on Vancouver Island early last century is now a listed National Historic Site in Canada. G...

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So we can turn things around and turn things for the better of all mankind now and into the future!!!!!!!!! :) 😀 😃 🙂 🙃 😊 😇 😀 😃 🙂 🙃 😊 😇 😀 😃 🙂 🙃 😊 😇 😀 😃 🙂 🙃 😊

So Japan has a very bright future, if it does the right things!!!!

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So the one that is wrong is.... door No. 3! The character of Erek King was named after a fan who won a competition Scholastic held while the series was coming out, and was first introduced in book 10, The Android. However, as was pointed out in the notes very quickly, Erek King is one of the most important side characters in the entire series, and shows up in way more than two books. Nineteen, specifically, and being mentioned in another seven.

He's also a several thousand year old pacifist alien robot dog, but that's beside the point.

Gonna go over all the others under a readmore so I don't destroy your dashboards.

All morphing has a small risk of death by warp-speed spacecraft: How the books explain morphing into something with a different mass than yourself is that excess mass is stored in a side dimension called Zero-Space/Z-Space. Spaceships also use Z-Space in order to facilitate faster-than-light travel. This has the result of there being a very real (if extremely small) chance of a passing spaceship literally running into your stored morph-flesh like a truck running over a squirrel on the highway. Technically, this only applies to morphing smaller than yourself, so that's a minor oops on my part.

One of the major alien races is constantly on the verge of starvation: This would be the Taxxons, which look like giant centipedes with gaping mouths and gelatinous red eyes. Their instincts basically urge them to eat anything and everything they physically can, all the time. In one particular instance, this results in a Taxxon who's been cut in half starting to eat its own severed body as it dies.

Parasitic alien slugs can get addicted to instant oatmeal: Specifically instant maple and ginger flavored oatmeal. It also causes the Yeerks to go insane and literally fuse with their hosts. Exploiting this is the main plot of book 17, The Underground, wherein the main kids plot to use the stuff to essentially infect the alien food supply.

The main characters permanently trap a kid on an island, as a rat, on purpose: The kid in question is named David, and gets pulled into the orbit of the main kids when he finds the device that gives someone morph capability and tries to sell it on the internet. He gets added to the team as a result, but quickly reveals himself to be untrustworthy, eventually trying to kill all 6 of the main cast. Since it's not possible to just take his morphing away, trapping him in rat form on a tiny island is their eventual solution.

A major recurring character is partially named after Gandalf: The main antagonist of the series is a Yeerk named Esplin 9466, better known by their military rank - Visser Three. Visser Three's host is an Andalite named Alloran-Semitur-Corrass. Alloran's name is derived from Olórin, which is an alternate name for Gandalf (specifically the name he had in Valinor, for any LotR fans out there). K. A. Applegate is actually a massive Lord of the Rings nerd, and there's a number of other references throughout the series. There's a company called Gondor Industries, for crying out loud.

There is a virus that can wipe a species from existence at the atomic level: It's called the Quantum Virus, and it functions by targeting a species and breaking down the forces that hold their subatomic particles together. It's used exactly once, in the spinoff book The Hork-Bajir Chronicles. Alloran (pre-Yeerk infestation) tries to use it to wipe out the Hork-Bajir species so that the Yeerks can't infest them to use as shock troops.

Atlantis is real: In book 36, The Mutation, an underwater civilization called the Nartec is discovered. According to their queen, they used to be humans living on a island on the surface, but eventually it was swallowed by the sea, resulting in the inhabitants mutating to become amphibious. They kill, dissect, and taxidermy humans taken from shipwrecks, and want to reverse-engineer human technology to invade and conquer the 'surface-dwellers.'

A reality-warping alien has the appearance of a dinosaur with a human face: Several people pointed out that this doesn't match the descriptions of the main reality-bending entities of the series, the Ellimist and Crayak, which is true. This is a description of Drode, Crayak's right-hand man, introduced in book 27, The Exposed. I left out that he's also described as being extremely wrinkly, like a prune.

A sapient hawk is the child of a human and an alien via time travel: One of the main kids, Tobias, gets trapped in hawk morph in the very first book, and remains that way for the entire rest of the series. While he does still identify as human, and later gets the ability to morph back into his human form temporarily, he's functionally a sapient hawk for 95% of the series. There is much angst about it. He's also the son of a human (Loren) and an Andalite (Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul), who met when Loren was kidnapped by a different alien species, which had also come into possession of a device called the Time Matrix. Elfangor and Loren used the Time Matrix to get back to Earth, then Elfangor buried it and trapped himself in human morph, eventually marrying Loren and conceiving Tobias. Soon after, the Ellimist, in an effort to fix the pair's timeline-bending shenanigans, modified Loren's memories, shunted her three years into the future, and reverted Elfangor back to an Andalite. Incidentally, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, the only alien of the main 6 characters, is Elfangor's younger brother, making him Tobias' uncle.

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