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Si el concepto de superhombre puede ser arriesgado, ¿qué puede decirse de las supermáquinas? El ser humano es peligroso por naturaleza, pero al menos se trata de una naturaleza bien comprendida por todos nosotros. Otorgar inteligencia a un medio tan radicalmente distinto como una máquina, de la cual no puede esperarse, como mínimo, el mismo comportamiento que una persona, será toda una experiencia. Que sea positiva o negativa, aún no lo podemos aventurar.
Hay quien dice que la carne ya no será necesaria para nada. Cuando ésta supere su vigencia física, algo así como su fecha de caducidad, bastará con reemplazarla con elementos mecánicos. Prácticamente todas las funciones que realizan los órganos del cuerpo humano podrán ser duplicadas en su totalidad (y mejoradas), de manera que lo único realmente valioso para una persona (su mente, su memoria, su personalidad, su cerebro), es también lo único que debería preservarse. A despecho de convertirnos en robots con cerebro orgánico,
Marvel Legends Machine Man from the Avengers Series Odin Wave
(backpack, handgun and shoulder cannons came from fodder)
I wrote some notes in my diary as I watched the movie Metropolis:
Metropolis is the utopian city of the future. It’s a mega city, with an inner city below ground. It’s a city with a two-tiered system: the haves and the have nots. The haves are the elites, the have nots are the workers. The have nots are the underclass who work below in the city’s infrastructure. These working stiffs look robotic, walking tiredly in sync with their heads down, as they go to and fro from work. In contrast, the elites above live a life of luxury. They hang out in a complex known as the Sons’ Club, with its lecture halls and libraries, its theatres and stadiums. They even have their own Garden of Eden, which they call the Eternal Gardens.
Down in the dark below, the have nots run the Machine. Without the Machine, there would be no Metropolis. The workers must keep up with the needs of the Machine, otherwise it will malfunction. Then the Machine, like Moloch, will devour its victims with smoke and fire. “Death and destruction are never satisfied: Toss the casualties into its mouth, for they must be sacrificed to the belly of the Beast! Broad is the road that leads to destruction: March the survivors into its bowels, for the realm of the dead desires them!”
In the utopian Metropolis above, stands the new Tower of Babel. “The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the sycamore trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.” Whatever we put our minds to we will accomplish!
In the dystopian Metropolis below, a voice cried out: A Mediator is coming! Prepare His way, make His paths straight! When the King of Metropolis heard this, he was troubled. So he went to visit a sorcerer, a false prophet, who could help him. The two of them crafted a sinister plan to build the man of the future, whom they called the Machine-Man. They said, “No one will be able to distinguish between the Machine-Man and mortals. We shall give the Machine-Man the likeness of a woman. We shall give the Machine-Man her face. We shall use this false woman to deceive man. We shall sow discord between them!”
The voice in the depths cried out again: Listen to the story of Babel: Nimrod, a mighty warrior and hunter of men, captured men and enslaved them. Nimrod, the worthless shepherd, said, “Come! Let us build a tower whose zenith shall reach unto the stars! We will use bricks hardened in the fire, and mortar made from tar. We shall build this famous tower upon the great Babylonian plain.” However, his plans came to nothing. And now, similarly, we find ourselves under the oppression of an evil shepherd! His new world order has been built upon the backs of our blood, sweat and tears. We need a good shepherd, a Mediator, to help us. Wait for Him! He will surely come!
Meanwhile, the sorcerer kidnapped a beautiful young lady. He dragged her into his dingy laboratory. On the back wall of his laboratory was a large pentagram. Under the pentagram sat a robot, which he had created. The sorcerer laid the woman down on a table in the center of the room. He hooked her up to various wires and tubes, all of which were connected to the robot. Like a mad scientist, he opened and closed valves and flicked switches on and off. Then bright rings appeared, moving up and down the body of the robot. As this happened, the flesh of the woman merged with the robot. The two became one: Man and Machine. Biological algorithms merged with digital algorithms. Human consciousness merged with artificial intelligence. “What I have joined together let no man separate,” the sorcerer exclaimed. “I will call her the Queen of Heaven.” He saw what he had made and declared, “It is good! This is humanity plus: Post-humanity. This is transhumanism: Post-evolution. The Age of Human Deconstruction is finally here. Soon, man will no longer have freewill!”
Once again, the voice in the wilderness cried out: Verily, I say unto you: The days of Apocalypse draw nigh! In the Bible it is written: “I saw a Woman sitting upon a scarlet colored Beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the Woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, having a golden cup in her hand. And upon her forehead was the name written, a mystery: ‘BABYLON THE GREAT, mother of all abominations on the earth.’ And I saw the Woman drunk with the blood of the saints.”
Now it so happened that the King of Metropolis threw himself a birthday party. At his celebration, the Trans-woman danced seductively for him and his guests. Indeed, the Seven Deadly Sins followed her. The King was very pleased with her, and promised to give her whatever she desired. “I want you to give me the heads of my enemies,” she replied.
Upon the seven headed Beast the Spiritual Prostitute swayed her hips hypnotically, seducing the ignorant—both rich and poor. They counted her a saint, though all sins are heaped at her feet. “Look into my all-seeing eye,” the Seductress shrieked! “Join my new religion, join my one world church. But if you refuse to follow me, the King will give me your head.”
However, once the Witch had served her purpose, the King of Metropolis burned her at the stake. “I will have no gods (idols) before me,” he declared. “Now listen to me, all you people” said the King, “you are the living fodder for the Beast-Machine of Metropolis. You smear the Machine-Joints with your own marrow. You feed the Machine with your own flesh. Sacrifice yourselves to Moloch, you fools! Don’t let the Beast-Image starve, you morons! Follow the heart of the Machine! Let your hearts beat as one with the Beast! If the heart of the Beast-System fails, you too will be destroyed! Furthermore, I AM the Beast, the Beast-Machine has been created in my Image, and the Beast with seven heads is my kingdom—the Kingdom of the Beast! The Transcendental-woman gathered all religions together, saying, ‘Let us worship god together.’ But I tell you, your god is here! And now I offer the world my salvation: Take a bite of the Apple, take the Smart-Chip, take the Beast-Mark. If you do: I will abide in you, and you will abide in me. Now, come and follow me!”
Then a voice cried out, saying, “Flee from the midst of Babylon, and each of you save your life! Do not perish in her punishment, for this is the Lord’s time of vengeance; He will pay Babylon what she deserves. Lo and behold, the Mediator comes! From heaven a white horse comes! Its Rider has a name: Faithful and True. And with justice He judges and goes to war. Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great! Fallen, fallen, is its Tower of Babel! Indeed, the Beast has been captured, and with him the false prophet (sorcerer). And they both have been thrown into the lake of fire, which burns with brimstone.”
After I finished writing these things, I put my diary back in the drawer. It’s illegal for me to have paper and pen. Handwriting is against the law too. The penalty for such crimes is death.
A week after I wrote these notes, I was arrested by Big Brother—the secret police. Now death awaits me. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have kept the faith. In my suffering, I am reminded of St. John. How he was banished to the Island of Patmos for preaching the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. He endured unto the end, and so will I!
One of my favorite comic series from the Aughts was Marvel's "Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E." Personally, I'd love to see MCU do a Nextwave movie... I doubt it will ever happen, at least not for the next few phases. But to this day it still has some of the sharpest self-referential humor in a comic book on this side of Deadpool.
In her lifetime Jocasta has had many love interests: Ultron, Vision, Machine Man, and Machine Man 2020.
For Aaron Stack, aka Machine Man, there has only ever been one love: Jocasta.
A bunch of my comics...
[WEEK 3 - What’s In My Closet]
So this week's theme was "what's in my closet"...well the question for me is, what ISN'T in my closet. I have all the toys and such from when I was a kid just stuffed in my closet and trust me...my closet isn't very big and there is a lot there! Tonight I went to the back and remembered I have hundreds of comics in mint shape back there. I bought a price book and some are actually worth a few bucks. I have Spider Man, Machine Man, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, The Avengers, The Hulk, Fantastic Four, Star Wars etc etc etc...It was neat going through some old stuff again, it's been quite a while!
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Marvel Legends Machine Man from the Avengers Series Odin Wave
(backpack, handgun and shoulder cannons came from fodder)
Fake house ad for a fake Jack Kirby comic created for an interview about KIRBY-VISION for Tim Miner's blog, MARVEL SMARTASS!
Machine Man / Heft-Reihe
Madame Menace... She'll Tear You Apart!
cover: Rich Buckler, Al Milgrom
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1980
ex libris MTP
Machine Man / Heft-Reihe
cover: John Byrne, Steve Ditko
> The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls
(art: Steve Ditko)
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1980
ex libris MTP
Machine Man / Heft-Reihe
Jolted by Jack O'Lantern!
cover: Frank Miller, Terry Austin
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1981
ex libris MTP
Machine Man / Heft-Reihe
> Kill me or cure me (art: Steve Ditko)
cover: Steve Ditko
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1980
ex libris MTP
Osaka Tin Toy Institute miniature robots.
Tin Age Collection Volume 2 -- complete with Secret Robot
Set of seven extremely detailed diecast miniatures designed from the collection of Mr. Kitahara
Each robot is about 2.5 inches tall
Here are tiny Non-Stop (Lavender) Robot, Thunder Robot, Super Giant Robot, Radicon Robot, Smoking Space Man, and Telephone Robot plus the red Machine Man secret robot shown only in silhouette on the back of the box
Each robot is comes with it's individual box, set of six is packaged in an illustrated carton
This set is or sale at ToyTent.com
A city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
~Roland Barthes
3-D Man
A-Bomb
Amadeus Cho
Ant-Man
Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady)
Arachne
Ares
Beast
Black Bolt
Black Knight
Black Panther
Black Widow
Black Widow
Cannonball
Captain America
Captain America (Bucky Barnes)
Captain Britain
Captain Universe
Crystal
Daredevil
Darkhawk
Deathcry
D-Man
Dr. Druid
Dr. Strange
Echo
Falcon
Firebird
Firestar
Forgotten One
Giant-Man
Havok
Hawkeye
Hell Cat
Hercules
Hulk
Human Torch (Jim)
Hyperion
Invisible Woman
Iron Fist
Iron Man
Iron Man (Earth 96020)
Jack Of Hearts
Jessica Jones
Jocasta
Justice
Lion Heart
Living Lightning
Luke Cage
Machine Man
Madame Masque (Clone)
Manifold
Mantis
Marrina
Mocking Bird
Moira Brandon
Moon Knight
Moondragon
Mr. Fantastic
Ms. Marvel
Nova
Photon
Protector
Quake
Quasar
Quicksilver
Rage
Red Hulk
Red Wing
Rogue
Sandman
Scarlett Witch
Sentry
Sersi
Shang Chi
Sharon Carter
She-Hulk
Silver Claw
Smasher
Spider-Man (Otto Octavius)
Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
Spider-Woman
Starfox
Stature
Stingray
Storm
Sub-Mariner
Sunfire
Sunspot
Sword Man (Jacques Duquesne)
Sword Man (Philip Javert)
The Thing
Thor
Thunderstrike
Tigra
Two-Gun Kid
U.S. Agent
Valkyrie
Venom (Flash Thompson)
Vision
Vision II
War Machine
Wasp
Whizzer
Wolverine
Wonder Man
Yellow Jacket
Loose recreation of the Marvel Civil War "Event" cover from the comic book, in downtown Atlanta.
Elsa Bloodstone: Mary Kate Smith
Monica Rambeau: Jay Justice
Tabitha Smith: Carlin Elissa
The Captain:
Machine Man:
Lighting: Streetlights, plus twin speed lights in a 51-inch Buff PLM with diffusion cover, at about 5 o'clock.
"I require large amounts of alcohol, fleshy ones."
Machine Man from Marvel Comics. This looks like his costume from Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E..
There is a standard CWGC pattern headstone in the Cemetery at Methwold.
G/11409 PRIVATE
R. WATTS
ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT
19TH OCTOBER 1919
There is also a plaque attached:-
IN MEMORIAM
OF
ROBERT WATTS
FROM COMRADES AND FRIENDS
QUEEN ALEXANDERS HOSPITAL HOME
(There is a bottom line which I can’t make out)
Private WATTS, R
Service Number:………. G/11409
Died:…………………… 19/10/1919
Unit:…………………….Royal Sussex Regiment
Buried at METHWOLD (ST. GEORGE'S) CHURCH BURIAL GROUND
Location: Norfolk, United Kingdom
Source: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2803528/watts,-/
No match on SDGW.
The Medal Index Card for Private 11409 Robert Watts, Royal Sussex Regiment, is held at the National Archive under reference WO 372/21/47442
Source: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D5788014
He qualified for the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. He is also on the Silver War Badge List which shows he enlisted on the 22nd January 1916 and was discharged on the 26th July 1917. The Service Medal Roll shows him only seeing service with the 13th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment.
Some of his Service Records appear to have survived the incendiary attack during the Blitz on the Warehouse where all the Other Ranks Army Service Records were stored.
Robert Watts, a single Farmer aged 21 years and 1 month, was living at Methwold Hythe, Methwold when he attested at Norwich on the 22nd January 1916. He had no previous military experience.
He was recorded as 5 feet 7 and three quarter inches tall.
His next of kin was his mother, Mrs Mary Watts, of Methwold Hythe, Norfolk.
Having initially attested, probably through an extension of the Derby Scheme, he was posted after 1 days service to the Army Reserve He was mobilised on the 1st May 1916 and posted to a training unit, the 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment on the 3rd May. On the 7th December 1916 he arrived at an Infantry Base Depot in France and from there was posted on to the 13th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment on the 25th December 1916.
He qualified for the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. He receibed a Gun Shot Wound to the back on the 27th February 1917. He was repatriated through the medical evacuation chain, landing back in the U.K. on the 5th March 1917.
This wound left him permanently disabled and he was discharged from the Army on the 26th July 1917 as no longer physically fit for service. When the Army wrote to him with his discharge papers he was still a patient at the King George Hospital, Stamford Street, London S.E.1. He was to receive a weekly pension of 27 shillings and 6 pence. By December 1917 he acknowledged receipt of his Silver War Badge, giving his address as Methwold Hythe, Norfolk.
No match on Picture Norfolk, the County Image Archive.
No obvious Soldiers Will or Civil Probate for this man.
On the Methwold War Memorial elsewhere in the cemetery he is recorded as Robert Watts.
There are no obvious entries in the Civil Records for Robert or Mary Watts to link them to this part of East Anglia. He would not have been old enough to vote by the time preparation of the electoral register was suspended for 1916 and 1917. There is no-one with the surname Watts or Watt recorded on the 1915 edition of the Norfolk register of voters in the Methwold Polling District.
Robert stated when he enlisted in January 1916 that he was 21 years and 1 month old. If that is correct and Robert was his first name then his birth could be expected to have been registered in either Q4 1894 or Q1 1895. There are no likely births in Q4 and four births in Q1.
These were :-
Robert Henry, Truro District. Robert Henry, born Probus, Cornwall, was living at Probus, Truro, Cornwall, working as a Labourer, in the household of his parents Charles and Elizabeth on the 1911 Census.
Robert John, Cambridge District. Robert John, born and living Cambridge on the 1911 census. Living with parents Robert John and Lydia.
Robert Malcolm, Foleshill District of Warwickshire. No obvious match 1901 or 1911 census. No obvious match in the death records for England and Wales.
Robert William, Gateshead District. A possible candidate for this soldier was the 16 year old Robert William Watts, born Gateshead, County Durham, then working as an Engineers Fitter. He was living in the household of his parents at 1 Woods Terrace, Gateshead. It is his mother Mary, aged 40 and born Scotland, who is recorded as the head of the household as her husband Septimus Watts is stated to be in South Africa. The couple have been married 20 years and have had 6 children, of which 4 were then still alive. As well as Robert William they were Jane, (18), Eleanor May, (7) and Norman, (2). Going back to the 1901 census his father Septimus, a Milling Machineman was aged 34 and Mary was 30. Septimus was born Newcastle, Northumberland. The death of a Septimus Watts, aged 77, (so born circa 1866) was recorded in Johannesburg in 1943. His children are recorded as Jean, Robert, Eleanor May and Norman. His wife predeceased him, dieing on the 19th June 1937. It would look like Robert was still alive and so can be ruled out.
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHF-SZ4B
For now the assumption has to be that mother and son were born outside England and Wales, arriving in the Methwold area after the 1911 census was taken and were not qualified to vote.
On the day - wounded………………………
There is only one date for his wounding shown in his surviving service records and that’s the 27th February 1917. However the Battalion War Diary gives no real clue as to the circumstances of his death.
25th February 1917 – Battalion War Diary
St Lawrence Camp.
The Battalion relieved the 9th Yorkshire Regt. in the Right section OBSERVATORY RIDGE sector taking over the following dispositions. B C & D Coys in the front line from right to left with A Coy in support in HALIFAX TRENCH and Battn. Headquarters at RUDKIN HO. I.24.c.1/4.1 ½
The relief was a long time and was not reported complete till 1 a.m.
The general condition of the line was not good and supply arrangements necessitated large carrying parties.
26th February 1917 – Battalion War Diary
Owing to poor visibility the artilleries of both sides were inactive and except for desultory firing on a few points the day passed quietly. During the night our patrols were active but encountered no resistance.
27th February 1917 – Battalion War Diary
Day again passed quietly. During the morning the enemy fired about 20 5.9’s on RUDKIN HO. slightly damaging the trench but causing no casualties.
On the day………………………………
As he is regarded officially as among the war dead, Robert must have succumbed to his spinal injuries.
The death of a 24 year old Robert Watts, (no middle initial) was recorded in the Wandsworth District of London in the October to December quarter, (Q4), of 1919.
The plaque on his headstone references the “Queen Alexanders Hospital Home” – this is almost certainly either the Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital although that lies just across the river from the borough of Wandsworth.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Alexandra%27s_Military_Hospital
Or there is an Queen Alexandra Hospital Home which was originally opened at Roehampton in 1919.
See: www.military-history.org/articles/charities-queen-alexand...
Black A4 sized ledger with marbled edged paper. White label on front with 'Printing Order Book' typed on front.
Accession Number: SH.2009.370.2
This ledger records every order completed by a machineman at Holmes McDougall between 1941 and 1960. It details title of publication, number of pages and print run.
The Holmes McDougall Group were based at Allander House, 137 - 141 Leith Walk. They were primarily educational publishers concerned with the publication of high quality primary and secondary educational books for use in schools both in the UK and abroad. The company slogan was 'The Teachers' Publisher'.
The company had a magazine division based in Glasgow which published weekly and monthly titles including the Scottish Farmer, Climber and Rambler, The Great Outdoors, Business Scotland and the Scottish Field.
Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). The project aims to catalogue and make accessible the wealth of printing collections held by City of Edinburgh Museums. For more information about the project please visit www.edinburghcityofprint.org
Machine Man / Heft-Reihe
> Kill Me Or Cure Me (art: Steve Ditko)
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1980
ex libris MTP
Der Maschinenmensch, eines der Wahrzeichen des Technoseum Mannheim, ist eine 8,5 Meter lange und eine Tonne schwere Figur, die den technischen Fortschritt und den Aufbruch in eine neue Zeit symbolisiert.......................?
The San Francisco Film Museum had the opportunity to participate in the SF Silent Film Festival's screening of “Metropolis" at the Castro Theater. To celebrate the newly uncovered and restored 150-minute version of Metropolis, we invited festival goers to recreate the iconic film poster by being photographed in place of Maria.
© All rights reserved San Francisco Film Museum. Photography by Dottie L. Guy and A'ja Photo.
My comics haul from this year's Fallcon, that's about 40 issues of Mike Grell's Green Arrow run at the upper left to begin my collection. Also completed my Batgirl and Machine Man runs (and a trade of the first Machine Man mini!), got Machine Man and the modern Black Canary's first appearances, that awesome Green Arrow cover of Dinah, a first printing copy of The Killing Joke, Bruce Timm's Harley & Ivy mini, the collected Jack Kirby Green Arrow, a couple of Adam Hughes sketchbooks, and a mess of freebies
2008-02-13
Morning coffee.
This is one of the many superhero-themed murals and display cases in the midst of this Harrisburg, PA McDonald's. As far as I can tell, this is the regular decor and not a promotion.
I'm not sure who the untagged/un-noted heroes are. Any help would be great.
Project 365 Day 44: Seriously--I didn't get close to photographing it all. It defeated the "homogenized" McDonald's in my eyes.