Positronic Brains

[Q-Bot Eye]

"Positronic Brains" were also the kind of brains Asimov's robots always
had, if I'm not mistaken.

-Andy!

--- ld <jar5831 at localnet.com> wrote:
> Ever since the Next Gen Star Trek began I have been convinced the
> writers have
> thumbed trough electronics/physics dictionaries for cool sounding
> tech terms to
> use without really knowing what they meant...My favorite such gaff is
> Commader
> Data, with his 'positronic' brain, ha!   As you all know a positron
> is a
> anti-electron, hence without some kind of magnetic bottling or so he
> would
> explode with a huge boom certainly on the scale of a large
> nuke...besides, what
> speed/processing power advantage would be achieved using positrons
> instead of
> electrons anyway?  None that I am aware of...now if his brain was a
> optical
> computer, now your talking sense...I allways enjoy pointing this out
> to hard
> core Trekies is drives them nuts!  That and insisting that if Data
> and the
> Robot from TV Lost in Space fought, the robot would win via his
> ability to
> electrocute Data...Ha!...I can hear the Robot cry out now as Data
> approached :
> "DANGER, DANGER, BOB MOOG, DANGER!"
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