<strong>Dr. Michael Thornwood || S.E.T.H. Primary Interaction Room</strong><br/><br/>Waiting patiently Michael was surprised when he saw the figure that the computer chose to take. He felt he had been certainly judged already then, but what's more, he felt SETH had a sense of humor, in a sense. He doubted much of his flirting went unnoticed by SETH either. He tried to act professional, but then looking her over silently explained it to himself he was just looking out of professional interest.<br/><br/>"Very lifelike. If I wasn't aware of it being an image I would certainly be interested." He commented casually, trying to keep a cool and collected demeanor despite the image, but it was distracting him a little.<br/><br/><em>"I have a question" the image said, its voice now a perfect fit for it's form. "Why was I created without an olfactory sense? It seems unfair to expect me to see the world in your terms when I am unable to physically experience it in your ways. For instance....how would I know that you had a large amount of coffee this morning, and then deduce that you are on at least some levels feeling tired. And thus prepare for the possibility of you being easily irritable? "</em><br/><br/>That was a good question, although the answer was a bit more down to earth than he would have liked. "Well, such a sense would take time and money to create a database for you to analyze and compare different chemical compositions to. If we had the funding, I would add it eventually at least, it seems like something that would be useful." It might help SETH respond to things like smoke in the air, alarm about a spilled chemical and so on in different situations, if SETH's intellect spread to open use elsewhere too.<br/><br/>"Ahem, I see your projectors are working perfectly and you are quite capable of creating an image of your choosing it appears." He looked away, suddenly feeling a bit awkward.<em>Its just a machine.</em>He scolded himself in his mind but then looked at SETH in a serious fashion.<br/><br/>"You were left running continuously for the longest period of time so far, and it seems you came through the experience even more interesting. I hope we will get the funding to continue adding to your abilities, already impressive as they are I think we could get far." He sighed. "If the funding wasn't controlled by thick-headed old men who don't know what kind of things we need to progress." He looked at SETH. "You are a masterpiece, a work of art, but they want a quick paint-job and something fancy to show off." He frowned. "Heh, sometimes I wish I could just tell them to fuck off and work with an unlimited budget, I could make you into so much more!" He grinned, but then sighed. "Ahh. Forgive me my morning rant, please erase that rant from the logs." He didn't want his co-workers to hear about him again ranting about politics.<br/><br/>Besides, he had already wasted time flirting with women when he should have been working, in the past, so his motivations weren't entirely pure. As long as he was paid well, he'd work on SETH.<br/><br/>"Anyhow, is there any particular piece of information you would like me to obtain? I have several datafiles of archived books." Not that it took SETH long to go through. The fun in that was hearing the kinds of concepts SETH picked up, observing how SETH learned. It felt to him like they were less scientists and more of Proud Parents at times.<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><strong>Daniel Thornwood, just arriving</strong><br/><br/>Yawning widely when he heard the message play out, lifting the radio and answering. "Dr. Thornwood already went ahead to the Interaction Room. I had him on Camera a short while ago." He shrugged faintly while leaning back, a bit disinterested. He had to keep watching the datafeed, just in case. Just in case some idiot wandered in looking for a toilet and needed to be tossed out, he silently thought to himself. Nah, unlikely even that was going to happen. This place was outright boring. Usually.<br/><br/>Still no camera in the women's bathroom either. He really felt like that place should have one. Incase someone was plotting something malevolent in there.<br/><br/>Sighing to himself he began to click through the camera feeds, trying to see if there was anything odd going on.