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Overheard at The Robotics Farm
48th Sun 0001
There has been an intrusion from Krash jamming all the brains of the robots manufactured. Those off the assembly line today are blind, dumb and deaf or so it seems. As you know Bern is the Chief Engineer in charge and he is working on how to fix the problem. A few suns back (the 3rd or 4th sun) Bern had suggested at a closed door meeting that all the robots be destroyed but none at the farm agreed. They were of the view that if robots weren’t made who would work ? Brainless humans ? No ! because human brains had been atrophied beyond repair due to non-use. Even the most accomplished brain doctors couldn’t do anything about it. After all, he was a pea brained human himself. Owing to genetically embedded programs a few stuck to their old professions when the calendar was redone 47 days ago. What value do the old calendars have –practically speaking. Scientist Dr. Bern was among the few who invented the new calendar system. Many backbiters say this was because he was too old and didn’t like his age to show on official papers. All babies born on or after the 1st Sun 0001 would not have any place of birth except the place “Earth” . No words are now needed for communication. The eyes and gestures are enough to convey everything. Mindreading or telepathy is a widely taught ability which teachers felt was even better than silent gestures.
Doctor scientist Bern from IRS(Institute of Robotic Studies)has invented the “perfume spray”, the “stink gun” and a robo-toy cart for small children. A subordinate scientist suggested that the chips be removed from the toy robots and instead be pulled by a rope while the child would be roller skating. Dr Bern refused outright. He was of the opinion that what good was science if robot were to be pulled by children. It was in opposition to child abuse viz. wasting strength.
All currency has been trashed. None could “buy” anything. However exchange of goods and services were legal. A colleague of Dr Bern who is closely doing Bern’s paper work suggested that there be two genres of robots. One labeled as “female” and the other as “male”. The females are programmed to assist in the servicing of robots while the male counterparts followed behind with grease spray and oil to prevent squeaking.The female robots have two bulges just above their belts. These were in fact powerful transmitters which sent strong signals when there was a male robot far away. By some quirk of manufacture, the male robots ogled with their eye lasers at these protruding metal transmitters.An alternative to this malady was devised.The male robots were made magnetically North and the females also magnetically north on their front sides. So there was no attraction when they looked at each other.Research is on so that single polarity robots are manufactured in large scale and not the dual polarity ones like 2014 humans which caused disastrous attraction and even more disastrous consequences. 50th Sun 0001 at about 2:00 a.m. All the robots were hooked to their chargers.Maintenance cum cleaner one named Poezone Fillar slyly picked up a inter-galactic communication gadget and sent a coded message to one of his contacts in Pozo informing that all robots and creatures on the wrong hemisphere was asleep.This was the perfect time to drop the 100% destruction bomb. Pozonians were eagerly waiting for this message from Poezone who was a double agent.The bomb was dropped roughly at 02:30 a.m. and the entire hemisphere was incinerated. But without warning the Pozonians dropped a second bomb just to make sure.This destroyed and burnt the other hemisphere also. This report has been prepared by a serving soul on NextPlanet keenly observing the goings on on Earth for the last century. Now Earth is a large smoky black piece of charcoal-like object silently revolving the Sun of the Dark System. It has been reported by NextPlanet that it heralded the birth of a new generation from outer space.
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