Robotic bees, a honeycomb-like structure, plus walkways… As was mentioned, the walkways clearly are not meant for the bee-bots. That leaves only the option of ground-based, leg-, wheel-, or tentacle-using motile life. Now I’m beginning to wonder if this is where the Immigrant Cyantians might have been initially engineered. Though, one must wonder if the facility isn’t Rumuah but Moulin Phedra (Squid), and where Elites were re-engineered (altered from the base Cyantian).
While on this trail of rampant speculation, one must wonder if quite possibly the bee-bots might be techno-organic (ie semi-biological) or even be true von Neuman machines – self-replicating, self-repairing, and maybe even being able to recursively alter their programming to some degree or other (or be connected to a mainframe that has said capability: their equivalent of a queen bee).
The memory idea is a fair shake inefficient there, especially if the memory in question is electronic. Physics and simple basic efficiency would demand a small, centralized storage system, or one of a few physically-close nodes, operating a lot like perhaps NAS (Network Attached Storage) and the like.
As for the air blast, THAT is possible, though also an air blast will (from experience) terrify the tail off of small animals and send them fleeing in terror.
As to what could be stored there? well, if the entire honeycomb structure is optical memory, and uses anything high up in the visible light spectrum (or higher, into the deep UV range), the amount of information in even a cubic meter would potentially be staggering.
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18 thoughts on “11/07/2011”
Redlion
OK. This is as expected as… snow in the middle of the Sahara.
Hartree
Well, there was certainly something else there at one time. Those walkways and doorways weren’t made for the bee-bots.
Soapy
Holy…..
hariman
“Big” in more ways than one!
Now you just have to survive whatever might still be down here and getting back through Rama’s forces to report your find.
Good luck!
hariman
Oh bother. It’s not real honey.
bargamer
I think you meant “we’ve” and not “were.”
With this much honey, where’s the Pooh cameo? XD
Magpie
Now kids, bee good! And if you can’t bee good, bee careful!
ArkaniusXII
wut
Flowerlark
I guess Quinn was right…. they ARE bees.
I am very happy. I love bees.
Lycanthrope
A BIG TASTE…in a BIG CEREAL…HONEYCOM…oh bother, not real honey? Well that ruins the commercial applications.
TiffRoss
Bah. Will fix that. Missed it when I went over it.
Mika Kyubi
Robotic bees, a honeycomb-like structure, plus walkways… As was mentioned, the walkways clearly are not meant for the bee-bots. That leaves only the option of ground-based, leg-, wheel-, or tentacle-using motile life. Now I’m beginning to wonder if this is where the Immigrant Cyantians might have been initially engineered. Though, one must wonder if the facility isn’t Rumuah but Moulin Phedra (Squid), and where Elites were re-engineered (altered from the base Cyantian).
While on this trail of rampant speculation, one must wonder if quite possibly the bee-bots might be techno-organic (ie semi-biological) or even be true von Neuman machines – self-replicating, self-repairing, and maybe even being able to recursively alter their programming to some degree or other (or be connected to a mainframe that has said capability: their equivalent of a queen bee).
Josh.C
Maybe it’s a huge memory bank that saves information and the bee bots maintain it.
That air blast from before chases of small things but also works like the air cans that clean computers.
Maybe the location of earth might be here.
Mika Kyubi
The memory idea is a fair shake inefficient there, especially if the memory in question is electronic. Physics and simple basic efficiency would demand a small, centralized storage system, or one of a few physically-close nodes, operating a lot like perhaps NAS (Network Attached Storage) and the like.
As for the air blast, THAT is possible, though also an air blast will (from experience) terrify the tail off of small animals and send them fleeing in terror.
As to what could be stored there? well, if the entire honeycomb structure is optical memory, and uses anything high up in the visible light spectrum (or higher, into the deep UV range), the amount of information in even a cubic meter would potentially be staggering.
Vorlonagent
Maybe they have a gestalt going and the colony’s memory and processing capabilities are truly decentralized.
Interesting to note that the honeycomb is not sized to the workers.
Redkitsune
Are those things native to this place or did Rama make them?
Iron Ed
Y’all should’ve watched the live-streaming the other night…
Just sayin’. 😉
SCKnight
Maybe these robot bees are like the Enforcers from the Halo Series.
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