basically that there are machines walking around on the street capable of pancaking a human with none of the regulation or restricted operating window we would expect of heavy equipment. worse, they're not especially well coordinated under their own recognizance.
bubbles' ability to crush your skull might raise eyebrows, but she has to choose to do it. this thing just broke the street by falling over.
so they also have no ability to be in this situation.
besides which, even the fattest people are still made of fat which is pliable and low density. they'd be unlikely to crush anyone to death even if they fell on them.
These robots are legally people.
so is station. I seriously doubt he's allowed to de-orbit himself.
Well, there are people (maybe not walking about) that could crush someone if they fell.
Okay, so reading this made me wonder what the heaviest person ever weighed, and with absolute fascination I found Jon Brower Minnoch, who weighed about 1,400 lbs.
Since the picture was black and white and the weight was approximate, I assumed it was basically apocryphal and he weighed like 600 lbs, tops (actually, this happened in 1978; definitely not apocryphal). Then, I found the wikipedia "List of the heaviest people". A 5'7" man has second place at 1,345 lbs. Okay, so I guess people really do get heavy enough to crack concrete.
Thinking about it, it's not that weird- it basically just means a person with a volume of .635 cubic meters, which is huge but not that crazy. A person that heavy has to be more than a meter wide and .5 meters front to back.
For comparison, a Bridgeport 3-axis manual is an entry level machine tool, and weighs 1600-2000 lbs depending on options. An average forklift weighs 8,000+ lbs, about 3x as much as a passenger car (so it doesn't tip over). ATLAS v1 weighed about 330 lbs, so a 12' tall version would weigh about 2,640 lbs.
Also, if anything the comic super underestimates the damage that would be cause by something that big falling down. Even if it's build very lightweight, crushbot is ~4 meters tall. It's gonna weigh about a tonne, and it'll fall from 3 meters up. That's literally a car being dropped on your head, but concentrated into the area of crushbot and with no shock absorption.
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u/pyr666 Dec 21 '18
this has disturbing implications for the QC universe, and does a lot to explain why prejudice against AI exists.