Specifically exemplifying this theory we find Asimov's Solarians: humans evolved from an old Spacer world who had genetically modified themselves into hermaphrodites with telekinetic mental powers.

All other contact was accomplished by sophisticated telepresence " viewing " systems, with most Solarians exhibiting a strong phobia towards actual contact, or even being in the same room as another human.

Using these lobes, Solarians manipulated their environment with powers akin to telekinesis, and provided for the energy needs of their entire estates, including power for all of the estate's robots, drawing energy from the various spontaneous thermal energy transfers of the planet in apparently complete compliance with the known laws of thermodynamics.

To prevent them from providing information to the Galaxy about Solaria and in keeping with Solarian customs and beliefs, not to mention preventing other Solarians ' discovery of shameful personal contact with offworlders, Bander attempted to kill the visitors, but was instead killed accidentally by Bliss, resulting in the shutdown of all of the robots and other machinery of the Bander Estate.

However, it's worth noting that Solarians are significantly different than other Spacers in many ways, and that they have " unusually rigid mental attitudes toward robots.

The Solarians specialized in the construction of robots, which they exported to the other Spacer Worlds.

Next, they go to Solaria, where they find that the Solarians — who have survived the Spacer-Settler conflicts by clever retreat detailed in Asimov's novel Robots and Empire — have engineered themselves into self-reproducing hermaphrodite beings, who have remained generally intolerant of human physical presence or contact.

At the end of the book, it was suggested that the Solarians had modified themselves so much that they no longer counted as human, and that their behavior could no longer be predicted by psychohistory, necessitating the creation of Galaxia.

It may also be capable of obliterating large sections of matter, though this ability is never discussed by Gaia ; the Solarians ( much more powerful transducers ) were capable of destroying objects at least as large as space vessels.

* In Hal Clement's short story Proof ( 1942 ), neutronium is the only form of solid matter known to Solarians, the inhabitants of the Sun's interior.

Homo sapiens, referred to as " Earth-descended " or " ED " humans, or as " Solarians ", are the only sentient species aggressive enough to put up a good fight.

The Solarians are not informed of Olivaw's robotic nature, as an Auroran show of superiority in the creation of robots.

During the period from 5, 000 AD to 20, 000 AD, the Solarians had extensively modified themselves through genetic engineering to become hermaphrodites, thereby removing the need for sexual contact.

In a more important development, Solarians evolved ( or engineered ) small transducer lobes, a section of the brain about the size of a hen's egg, protruding behind the ears.

The ultimate fate of the Solarians is unknown, although Sarton Bander seemed to believe that Solaria had a bright future.

It is implied that the Solarians use a special organ to turn heat into some manner of energy, but whether it psychokinetic or telepathic in origin, if not both, is not wholly specified.

The Sirians therefore resemble the ' Solarians ' of The Naked Sun, albeit less isolated and far more warlike.

In Canadian football the passer must simply throw the ball across the line of scrimmage — whether he is inside or outside of the " pocket "— to avoid the foul of " intentionally grounding ".

He intentionally did not represent any particular gang, and wore a mixture of red and blue clothing and shoes to avoid antagonizing gang-affiliated listeners, who debated his true affiliation.

Although most maps are fairly linear, there are some maps that were intentionally designed to avoid that, which have multiple exits.

The fort was intentionally destroyed by Russian forces at the beginning of the Crimean War, so as to avoid its capture by the enemy.

Ministers may attempt to avoid opposition questions, but lying or intentionally providing misleading answers to Parliament is not permitted by the standing orders.

This resulted in the comical site of Brower running around the court ( without the ball ) trying to avoid being intentionally fouled by Western Kentucky players.

Kubo Masakazu, executive producer of Mewtwo Strikes Back, explained that they " intentionally avoid using the term ' kuron ' … because the word has a frightening feel ".

The puzzle is missing a piece over where Snoopy's nose should be, which was intentionally drawn that way to avoid copyright laws.

For some time Downing Street intentionally " lost " her letters to avoid having to respond to them.

It typically implies forethought, such as intentionally setting up the conditions to plausibly avoid responsibility for one's ( future ) actions or knowledge.

Historian Michael Marquardt argues that the evidence suggests the organization occurred in Manchester, and that the confusion was likely due to the effect of memory tending to conflate memories of several meetings in Manchester and Fayette years earlier Critics suggest that the location of the organization was intentionally changed in 1834 around the same time the church's name was changed to the " Church of the Latter Day Saints ", in order to make it seem like the new church organization was different from the " Church of Christ ", as a tactic to frustrate the church's creditors and avoid payment of debts.

In some instances, American television stations near the border — especially those in small markets which depend on their audience in a nearby Canadian market for their financial viability — have intentionally counter-programmed against this rule by altering their schedules in order to avoid substitutions.

The battalion's commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel E. H. Trotter, killed by a shell on 8 July, intentionally underestimated the battalion's casualties of about 500 to avoid the deployment of brigade reserves.

There are also RCDs with intentionally slower responses and lower sensitivities, designed to protect equipment or avoid starting electrical fires, but not disconnect unnecessarily for equipment which has greater leakage currents in normal operation.

The extracts are intentionally rather long to avoid accusations of taking sentences out of context.

Most societies place a high value on parenthood in adult life, so that people who remain childless intentionally are sometimes stereotyped as being " individualistic " people who avoid social responsibility and are less prepared to commit themselves to helping others.

At this time Swedes were able fire at the Russian ships from front as well as from both sides and several Russian ships started drifting into Swedish battle line while others other caught fire or were intentionally set on fire while few were beached to avoid sinking.

* The United States military when trying to avoid divulging information gives reporters briefings with 25 minutes of intentionally dull PowerPoint presentations and 5 minutes left at the end for questions from anyone who is still awake.

* The graboid's evolutionary origins are intentionally kept very vague ; the creators of the film were unconcerned with this detail, offering no explanation as to where the graboids came from in the original film, ( wanting to avoid the typical clichés of the monster movie genre.

According to some reports, he intentionally came up short to avoid delivering a commencement speech.

The company remains intentionally unlisted to avoid hostile takeover ; it has also never shown three consecutive years of profit, one of the requirements for listing.

A penalty shot is also awarded for a defender other than the goaltender covering the puck in the goal crease, a goaltender intentionally displacing his own goal posts during a breakaway to avoid a goal, a defender intentionally displacing his own goal posts when there is less than two minutes to play in regulation time or at any point during overtime, or a player or coach intentionally throwing a stick or other object at the puck or the puck carrier and the throwing action disrupts a shot or pass play.

Palmeiro continues to strongly deny ever having used steroids intentionally, telling the Baltimore Sun in June 2006, " Yes sir, that's what happened.

It's been years since I've seen Steve, but I know that he never, ever would do anything to intentionally hurt anybody.

However, in most modern armies, standing orders now call for the Colours to be intentionally destroyed if they are ever in jeopardy of being captured by the enemy.

The currency system is intentionally made inconveniently complex and only ever used at one point of the game.

* " My friend Peter Schmidt used to talk about ‘ not doing the things that nobody had ever thought of not doing ’, which is an inverse process – where you leave out an assumption that everybody has always made and see what happens ( e. g. music has to be made of intentionally produced sounds was the assumption that Cage left out ).

Programmes in English or other major Western languages were rarely ( if ever ) jammed intentionally.

Sent by McCullen to support the Baroness in acquiring the nanomite warheads, Storm Shadow was also given a direct order to kill Baron Daniel DeCobray if he ever touched the Baroness again, with her intentionally giving him reason as DeCobray outlived his usefulness to them.