The Roof, Wednesday night
Frohike and Langley were whining, then crying, then whining. Scully put them down on the roof, gave them pacifiers and bottles, put in her ear-plugs, and started to write a paper on her laptop that she intended to turn in with them. [Cue X-Files theme.]
"...while my feelings about parenthood are mixed, my feelings about android caretaking are not. Having two subjects made it possible to compare the behaviors between the two models, and determine that their individual programming parameters are separate and complex. Subject F responds better to being given a blanket than Subject L, and Subject L is more likely to imitate behaviors initiated by his co-android...."
"One might question the efficacy of a program designed to drive the caretaker to extreme coping measures, such as alcohol and making dates to initiate sex at some later time (see conversation of 11/12/10 with Wayne, Bruce), however, it can be stated that no amount of so-called 'bonding' takes place when there is the expectation of returning the robotic child substitutes...."
"What do you think, guys? Footnotes or endnotes?"
[ooc: open and very OCD, but that's just Scully.]
"...while my feelings about parenthood are mixed, my feelings about android caretaking are not. Having two subjects made it possible to compare the behaviors between the two models, and determine that their individual programming parameters are separate and complex. Subject F responds better to being given a blanket than Subject L, and Subject L is more likely to imitate behaviors initiated by his co-android...."
"One might question the efficacy of a program designed to drive the caretaker to extreme coping measures, such as alcohol and making dates to initiate sex at some later time (see conversation of 11/12/10 with Wayne, Bruce), however, it can be stated that no amount of so-called 'bonding' takes place when there is the expectation of returning the robotic child substitutes...."
"What do you think, guys? Footnotes or endnotes?"
[ooc: open and very OCD, but that's just Scully.]