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Battlestar Galactica | “I’m A Machine” [source]

“In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova?  No?  Well, I have.  I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe.  Other stars, other planets and eventually other life.  A supernova!  Creation itself!  I was there.  I wanted to see it and be part of the moment.  And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe?  With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull!  With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum.  With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air.

I don’t want to be human!  I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I-I want to… 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!  I could experience so much more, but I’m trapped in this absurd body!  And why?  Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way.“