TEST NO: 312 - Exo Arm Attachment

RECORD: 5002E290$EUR-0.435 SUBJECT: Security Log E-222 TEST NO: 312 - Exo Arm Attachment - Trial 4 STATUS: CONFIDENTIAL IDENTITIES: H. Rasmussen, C. Bray I, Patient 32 LOCATION: Europa – Eventide Colony [H.R.] //How about the index finger?// [P32] Uhh… no. [H.R.] Extremities remain unresponsive. //Are there any sensations at all?// [P32] Phantom ones. I have an itch I'd like to scratch. My chest feels heavy, like someone is sitting on me. [H.R.] While nerve endings are attached to the mechanism successfully, we are not generating action potentials. [C.B.] This isn't working, Helga. [H.R.] Still progress. You'll have to settle for that. [C.B.] I typically don't settle for anything. [P32] Hello? I'm struggling… to breathe. [H.R.] He's experiencing a massive myocardial infarction. //Send in the medic units.// I fear my earlier hypothesis was correct, and the human body in its current evolution cannot sustain the physical exertion the machine parts demand. [C.B.] Then we should evolve. [H.R.] Oh, okay. Let me just jump ahead one hundred million years real quick. [C.B.] We've had some interesting advancements in post-transcriptional modification—gene splicing—with primates, fish, and some birds. What if we built stronger Humans? Could they withstand this process? [H.R.] I'm an engineer, not a geneticist. I don't know if your ape-man can wield a metal arm. [C.B.] That's such a reductive and tasteless comprehension of what I'm proposing. [H.R.] He's flatlined. We've lost him. [C.B.] Well you know what they say. If at first you don't succeed…