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Oenology and viticulture. Show me your teeth. Science Fiction Story Ideas – Part 6: Human-like Machines | Writepop - Science fiction stories, humor, and writing about writing. Science Fiction Story Ideas – Part 6: Human-like Machines Human-Like Machines Androids and Robots At the robot factory, a Robot Prison Guard accidentally gets mixed in with the Love Bots and sent to a lonely, single man.A woman gets lost, and finds herself in a nursery staffed only by robots. Try as she might, she can’t convince the machines that she isn’t two years old.An engineer working for a landscaping service designs a gigantic, robotic wood chipper.

The robot is equipped with a vacuum, and it is powerful enough to suck up an entire tree and instantly turn it to dust. The military discovers his robot, and decides it would be more useful as a weapon… After the invention of highly intelligent, human-like robots, humans can “subcontract” their jobs to robots. Their job is performed by the robot, and the robot takes ten percent of their pay. Thinking Computers and Artificial Intelligence. 1001 Story Ideas | Writepop - Science fiction stories, humor, and writing about writing. A thousand lifetimes in space – Living on a generation ship 1,000 human beings are selected to board a spaceship headed for the stars. The trip is so long that they will die in space, but their descendants will reach a new planet. To save room on the generation ship, the original population of the ship is all women, with children to be produced by artificial insemination.

The first “in-space” generation grows up in a society controlled by women.Variation – To save space on the generation ship, all the original passengers are female. All the children are produced by artificial insemination, all from female embryos. After one hundred generations of only females, the ship arrives on the new planet, and the first males can be born.The passengers on a generation ship begin to doubt the new planet will ever be reached, and decide bringing new children into the situation would be cruel.

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Eagle Ref. Challenges. Caporegime. Structure of Mafia crime family Background[edit] The Mafia, particularly the American Mafia, is typically divided into distinct and partially independent "crews" headed by a "capo" or leader of the individuals. Individual crew members report to the capo. The crew collects protection and other money for the capo, who at regular intervals gives a share (or "taste") of the collected money to the underboss and/or the boss. Mafia crews are usually independent from each other, with members typically operating strictly within their own crew. Sometimes a crew might specialize in certain areas like gambling, while other crews might be more involved in legitimate interests like construction. The number of caporegimes/crews depends on the size of a family. Operation[edit] In the Mafia, when a boss makes a decision, he passes instructions down through the chain of command. Each capo is in charge of a mini-gang or a crew of soldiers and associates that can range greatly in size.

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