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Meeting transcript 2010-09-19
Attendees: Peter LANGLEY, FUYUTSUKI Kōzō, AKAGI Naoko
LANGLEY: So what's the problem?
FUYUTSYKI: The Dummy Plug project is going to take years, if it's even viable. Compressibility, density profiles, and acceleration modelling all point to critical problems with using a human pilot.
LANGLEY: Full immersion liquid breathing system? LCL has dissolved-oxygen capacity on par with perfluorocarbons and very similar density to human ground substance.
FUYUTSUKI: The human airway is not adapted to cycling the necessary volume of liquid to make those work. And besides, with all that dissolved gas there's the risk of cavitation.
AKAGI: The Nami project is viable.
LANGLEY: You are not decanting my little girl into one of those meat puppets, Naoko. I've read your daughter's final year dissertation on the neural vulnerabilities.
AKAGI: Those vulnerabilities can be adjusted for. Makinami is a case in point.
LANGLEY: If you try to tell me Mari is sane, I'm going to question whether you are.
AKAGI: Makinami understands reality, morality, causality, and legality. A court would find her sane. But that's beside the point. She's not vulnerable to the attacks Ritsuko identified.
LANGLEY: You tried them, didn't you?
[Silence of approximately 30 seconds.]
AKAGI: Yes.