Battlestar Galactica
4 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2021–2023
4:13 · 672K views · Jul 2, 2018
A clip from Battlestar Galactica season 4 in which a character declares 'I'm a machine' and laments the limits of human senses.
HN uses it as a quoted joke in threads about human limitations versus machine perception.
4 comments from Hacker News
"I don’t want to be human! I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more." this video Context at 1:14, quote at 2:08
I thought the same thing - reminded me of birds. (I was casually aware that we knew they had some sort of magnetism sensing, but hadn't caught up with the fact that we think it is a visual thing) [LINK] One last random association "I want to see Gamma Rays!" this video
You reminded me of this scene from Battlestar Galactica that has stuck with me since I watched it (spoiler alert). Conversely, the character laments the sensory limitations of the human body :) this video
It is amazing. I really wish I could see that level of detail with my own eyes. Queue Battlestar Galactica rant ( this video ).