So it's not terribly uncommon to see robots and cyborgs drinking oil as a gag. But I was thinking, does this actually make sense? Yes, obviously mechanical beings would require motor oil to lubricate their moving parts to reduce wear and such, but is it actually all that efficient for the intake valve to be through the esophagus?
No because its not efficient for robots to have mouths or heads at all. It's just a joke buddey
>>84559524
>not efficient for robots to have heads
Except if it's a hominid robot, then it absolutely is efficient for them to have a head. The reason so many life forms have heads at all is to have a central vantage point containing all their sensory organs. Imagine how annoying your life would be if you had your eyes, ears, and nose on your torso.
that is all
>>84560291
But she's pretty much my type.
Also, that propaganda film was ridiculous. The total human population is in less than no danger of actually dwindling to unsustainable levels, even more so in the future where we had obviously colonized other planets.
>in before someone posts the "don't fist robot girls" image
There wouldn't be gears there. That's not how that works.
>>84560291
Just don't fist them and you're golden.
>>84560291
FUCK YOU
>>84559498
you know, having a central intake for oil in the mouth/eusophagus area would kind of make sense if you're making a humanoid robot. The head is one of the highest points so you would have a gravity assisted oil delivery system. moreover, there's little reason to have it anywhere else, seeing as your theoretical robot's torso would also probably host a whole load of other stuff.
in fact, come to think about it, the most logical place to put the CPU and sensors would be in the head, away from all the other parts for cooling purposes and the oil pump about where the heart is for gravity assisted delivery to lower areas and a shorter travel to the arms, neck and head.
also, it's definitely better for a robot to be drinking oil than water.
>>84560799
Hey. This is how people get to ideas like Intelligent Design.
Quit it.
>>84560844
Both ID and evolution still have the same endpoint in this case, which is a system which works well enough. I'm not advocating ID in the slightest, because it's stupid and that's a whole other can of worms we don't need to open, just saying either way, the result is the structure of a human works. If you've got a robot advanced enough to move like a human then there's no real reason it couldn't ingest oil in a similar manner.
>>84560844
it's more like 'why reinvent the wheel, when we got billions of years of trial and error already done for us'
>>84559498
If you constantly need lubricant it implies that either you are leaking lubricant (not a good sign) or that you are being refitted. It makes more sense if Futurama robots ran off oil, with it being a high energy compound, to always require more.
But how does beer fit into it?
