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Two episodes again this week, and each let us know what’s been happening to a character we haven’t seen in a while.
In “6,741”, we find out what’s been happening to Shaw while she was captured by the minions of Samaritan. In an attempt to discover the location of the secret Machine lair, she’s fooled into thinking she’s escaped. But her loyalty to her comrades keeps her from revealing this key piece of information.
In “ShotSeeker”, Samaritan gets a new set of ears to go with it’s many eyes. But we hear once again that, while homicides are down, suicides and missing persons cases are up. Is this an attempt by Samaritan to keep these events off the Machine’s radar, since it only looks for murders? And it appears our heros get involved in one of these missing person cases. Will it lead to an understanding of Samaritan’s endgame? And then, at the very end, an old friend shows up. Nice twist.
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Technology in the news
Brain Porting from FringePedia.net /wiki/Portal:Fringe Science/Theories-Facts-Myths
Transfering the thoughts, memories, emotions from one higher lifeform to another, or to a heuristic computer for storage. The originator and receptor are not required to a share identical capacity. The act of ‘porting’ refines and adapts the transfered information to the destination’s ability to accept and to retain the information. Porting does not alter the information, allowing the originator to retrieve the rendered information in the same state that it was surrender.
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Brainport from Wikipedia.org
BrainPort is a technology sold by Wicab Inc. whereby sensory information can be sent to one’s brain via a signal from the BrainPort (and its associated sensor) that terminates in an electrode array which sits atop the tongue. It was initially developed by Paul Bach-y-Rita as an aid to people’s sense of balance, particularly of stroke victims. Bach-y-Rita founded Wicab in 1998.
BrainPort technology has also been developed for use as a visual aid. For example, the BrainPort has demonstrated its ability to allow a blind person to see his or her surroundings in polygonal and pixel form. In this scenario, a camera picks up the image of the surrounding, the information is processed by a chip which converts it into impulses which are sent through an electrode array, via the tongue, to the person’s brain. The human brain is able to interpret these impulses as visual signals and they are then redirected to the visual cortex, allowing the person to “see.” This is similar in part to how a cochlear implant works, in that it transmits electrical stimuli to a receiving device in the body.
The BrainPort V100 oral electronic vision aid was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on June 18, 2015.
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A really good read at
science.howstuffworks.com/brainport.htm
More Techno-stuff
ShotSeeker is based on an actual system called
ShotSpotter
A few urban hellholes have it. Boston has it. We had a similar system in Baghdad.
try a BING search for – – urban gunshot triangulation systems – –
http://www.bing.com/search?q=urban+gunshot+triangulation+systems
other popular TV shows have referenced the capability in the past few years and I think DARPA may have an open source webpage on this too.
The thing that keyed me to it being a simulation was when the lights flashed and the C4 and gun magically appeared in Shaw’s hands in the bathroom at the safehouse. It was great seeing Sarah speak Farsi in this episode. I feel it was 60% really Shaw’s feelings with 40% Samaritan influencing the simulation.
As a Shoot fan, it was a bummer that the sex scene wasn’t happening in reality just yet but it was real to Shaw so that’s a plus. I can see them showing the detailed encounter here so when they reunite later they can have a sexual moment began (kissing and clothes starting to come off or a push to a bedroom/on the bed/against a wall before cutting away), but not have to show it all the way thus slowing down the possible pacing of the episode which builds towards the final given we’re half way through the season and they haven’t united yet or this may be a way to show that moment because again the rest if the time is going to be “go-go-go” until the end so this is the place to fit because even though Shoot survive they don’t have time for romance until after the credits fade so the writers got that scene in now. I liked the scene, but it was a mixed bag on – I’m happy it happened and it was real to Shaw, but it would have been cool to see it in reality as well. I was fine with the church being a signal blocker in the simulation because there could be minerals in the building materials that block electronic waves. Given it’s the final season I wouldn’t have put it out of the realm of possibility Greer or John could have been killed in episode 4; it certainly would have been surprising if they went out that early, but still possible given the situations.
Using “6,741” as a measurement of time for how long Shaw has been gone yelds some interesting results; if you say 6,741 is a number of seconds you divide it by 60 because there are 60 seconds in a minute and that’s about 112 minutes which divided by 60 for 60 minutes in a hour you get roughly 2 hours which could be how long the simulation in this episode ran given the remark by Greer’s second “At least she waited an extra hour before she shot you.”. If you remove that extra hour it leaves you with one which is the length of the episode with commercials. If you say 6,741 is a number of hours and you divide it by 24 for how many hours in a day you get 280 days, divide that by the amount of amount of days in a month (averaging it to 30) you get 9 months which is how long it takes to have a baby which is the reason Sarah left for a bit. “6,741” works on a number of different levels as a tie in beyond just the number of simulations Sameen has been through. I don’t know if it was intended, but well done by the team if they intentionally chose the number instead of randomly picking it; given this team though I wouldn’t be surprised if it was intentional as they do really well with little details.
Interesting theory Doug about why people are missing. Minus Harold never hearing from Team Machine again, because I could see them needing him possibly at a point, I loved Lisa’s series endings!
And that thought just popped into my head as we were recording.