Question about the bees in Hated in the Nation
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nascentt — 9 years ago(October 30, 2016 02:02 PM)
I am just wondering. Wouldn't it be better to make clones of the bees instead of robots if the bees are going extinct?
Sometimes the 'better' choice isn't always the one that's done. Solar/Wind/Nuclear/Oiletc, and they did say in the episode that the government funded it by billions (to get the extra method of surveillance) they could've funded bee bio-cloning instead, but what benefit would the government get from it?
Plus the bees self replicated through 3d printers in the hives. So it'd be the fastest way to solve the problem for sure, once the concept bee was designed and the code was working
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mackay254 — 9 years ago(October 31, 2016 02:59 PM)
I didn't get the self-replication thing. 3-D printers to create metal, plastic, power supplies, cameras with interfaces to face-recognition databases, sat nav etc. etc. All within a dodgy-looking plastic hive?
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nascentt — 9 years ago(October 31, 2016 03:46 PM)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief
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mackay254 — 9 years ago(November 02, 2016 09:05 AM)
Asking someone to suspend disbelief, is all well and good - I'm pretty good at doing it - in most circumstances. But, this is obviously set in the near future. There was no need for this 'suspension of disbelief'.
When a bee 'goes down', there could have been back-up storage facilities with programmable bees, which could join hives. Simple! No need for the b0ll0cks. I didn't even mention that bees haven't got opposable thumbs! -
Meldove — 9 years ago(November 02, 2016 01:13 PM)
I think part of the issue is they were also using the bees for surveillance, this is not something they could do with cloned bees. It seemed the government viewed the surveillance a big part of the bee program.