Page 60. Eating.
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Page 60. Eating.
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Read first!!! As always, I cant wait to read the next update!
Darn you Zodiac! Get back to class!
But I am in the gorilla suit!
She looks so much like Brendan in the last panel though. Lol, just noticed
Uh-oh! I wonder if this reaction will be one like the Case Closed animes… Either this’ll be a suffering reaction or none at all.
O-O Since when is Tofu broth so exoensive!?
Since the world went into the future, I suppose.
My first thought was “since when is food that cheap?”
…I work in San Francisco, where a salad costs $12 :'(
Holy crap balls! Seriously?! I get peeved when a sandwich is 5 bucks at the university cafeteria! (I live in the Midwest.)
Oh Sulla, no :((
A lot of commenters seem worried about this turn of events. As if Sulla is about to “break” herself. But I can’t help thinking back to Sulla and Al’s first time at the diner:
1. Al asked if androids poop, to which Sulla replied, “Not if you keep eating sugar!” I always took this as tacit confirmation that the humanlike androids could *ahem* “discharge” anything ingested but not processable. We’ll see, I guess? Blue has implied Sulla’s making a bad choice here.
2. Upon eating his first glucose wafer, Al gags: “Way too sweet!” Clearly he can taste the food he’s eating, in the same way he would have perceived it as a human. It seems that, since their AI is derived from human brain-scans, the android people would want as many human-like experiences as possible, but one wonders what purpose a sense of taste serves if everything they are capable of eating tastes about the same (and in Al’s case, is the one taste he can’t abide: sweet).
Food for thought. (nyuk nyuk)
I see two competing trains of thought running in her head right now:
1. “Damn, this is tasty. I really should eat more actual food and damn the consequences.”
2. “Mitochondria are powerhouses contained within cells, and I can almost think of a way to solve one of my tech problems by duplicating or emulating that.”
I love the robot with the overturned pho bowl for a head. What’s their story? Were they built to sell pho? In which case, are their job prospects pretty limited? Or is this their passion, and they customized themself to look more like the food they love to sell?
The pho stuff could be a shell it puts on, akin to a work uniform.
I would say that maybe it is the owner, but it seemed a bit slow on the uptake. We don’t really know much about the bots yet except that you need a copy of a human mind to jumpstart their mentation. Do they remember? Are they ghosts of the dead, or echoes of the living? How many of them are made out of that missing copy of Al?
whenever my bio teacher heard us use one of the analogies we’d learned in middle school for cell parts he’d start screaming at us that “THEY’RE JUST BAGS OF CHEMICALS!!!!! STUPID TINY BAGS OF CHEMICALS!!!!”. sometimes he’d actually leave the room for a while. eventually we started making stuff up.
“what does the endoplasmic reticulum do?”
“Oh! Isn’t that the highway of the cell?”
*aneurysm*
I’ve read this comic, stared at its panels, breathed very heavily, gotten wet eyes, read through it again, kept breathing and come back daily to breathe more.
Your teacher and your jerkbutt friends are why I made an account and commented. Bra-vo. :P
Eating IS gross.
Why do I think of Pearl’s rant about eating food from Steven Universe when I read this page? lol
Part of me hopes that the synthetic person serving Sulla noticed that she isn’t human and secretly gave her something glucose-based instead…
Asimov’s humanoid robot R. Danell Olivaw just ate whatever was being served, then went into the john, opened his chest, and dumped the food into the toilet. I think Sulla can actually digest some of it, and probably burns the rest for fuel. Perhaps she’ll have to crap a charcoal briquette in a day or so. But there is no way her excellent body isn’t prepared for a small bowl of broth and tofu.
Given what Blue has already said, I bet it’s not. Some problems that *appear* simple can take ages to figure out. Doesn’t surprise me that they figured out taste receptors, but not how to allow the robots to eat non-robot food. Also, keep in mind Sulla is supposed to be one of the “most advanced” synthetic people (Al may even be more evolved) so it’s likely her digestive system hasn’t been fully “evolved” with her outside appearance and human personality. I would not be surprised if Al and Brenden take this as a challenge to see if they can “upgrade” a few things together—both for Sulla’s and Al’s sake.
The synthetic person appeared to be trying to avoid giving her food, but the human pushed it out of the way and served Sulla. She is eating real broth.
oh wow. that passing metaphor @__@
THE MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
Use the food to demonstrate!