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Posted By: borlet Sep 24, 2003 - 07:31 pm

Say humans acquire the ability to create some sort of bipedal sentient being. Through the complex work of science, biology, genetics ect, say humans are able to create this lifeform that walks bipedal, can communicate effectively, and can perform practically anything humans can do. We know theres genetically engineering and all this other stuff but let's say humans created this whole race of beings (well not an entire race but a small number of these individuals) that are basically like humans except for a few differences, like some facial features, way anatomy works, ect. Heres some questions of what if?...

Ok, these beings happen to be very intelligent and they can think for themselves. How thier emotions work and how they think is still a puzzle to humans because we have not known them long enough. And let's just say they can generally speak english.

Question: Thinking for themselves, would they neccesarily like the human race? What are the possibilities of them forming thier own revolution and trying to change the world and if not, actually take it over in some way or other?
Let's keep in mind they are generally intelligent.

Physically these beings are tough. They can take incredible amounts of damage to themselves. Something that would outright maim or kill a human being is nothing more than a flick on the ear to one of these individulas. Falling of a ten story building is no problem. While they may experince a great deal of pain, not one bone in thier body is broken. They simply get back up. Keep in mind thier bones are different then ours and a lot tougher as well.

Question: In what way do you think these beings could take advantage of this toughness?

Some random notes
* These beings have thier own kind of religion
* They generally stray away from humans, while they generally like the company of humans, they usually prefer to hang with eachother.
* They develope a variety of tools and generally make thier own technology and everyday it developes better.
* They acuire the ability to use a computer and even have some ideas of thier own that could run MICROSOFT out of business.
* They have incredible strength. Some are so strong they could benchpress a buick.
* Only 1/10 of the population of the world know about these "people".
* They each have thier own personalities. None are really alike.

Questions: What would they think of some of humans' customs? Would they like pornography? What are the chances that they don't like humans? Could thier society coincide with ours? What happened if they developed the ability to create more of themselves and began making rapid clones?
What would by some reasons why they might turn on the human race? What things would they want to change about the world? What if they turned hostile and "push comes to shove"? Why would humans create these people anyways? Hahahahahah.
Teresa borlet

Posted By: Aldan Sep 25, 2003 - 12:25 pm

One story that did indeed speak of this was "The Planet of the Apes" (the original seventies version). In it, the apes were bio-engineered into creatures that were as intelligent as man, if not more. They did become hostile when humans tried to "enslave" them. And then, of course, the apes enslaved the human race. Then came Chuck, who fought the "•••• dirty apes" and was able to become free of them, along with the hotty blonde necessary in all of those seventies films.

Posted By: gottgen Mar 29, 2004 - 07:13 pm

Ah, except it was better because she WASN'T a blonde! Nova was a buxsome brunette! Yowsa.