Comment Re:I didn't meet myself yet (Score 1) 465
Oh great, so now we're going to accept dating advice from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandfather?
Oh great, so now we're going to accept dating advice from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandfather?
Robert Rapier's a pretty solid researcher in energy matters, and not the type to whitewash topics like these, which got him branded as a shill for Big Oil (he's ex Conoco-Phillips) when he began writing about peak oil. On that particular subject he's been really on the money - he envisioned what he termed "Peak Lite" back in 2006, which means no actual decline in overall supply but little in the way of actual gains and persistent high prices, which is what has actually transpired in the intervening years. This won him no favors with types who latched on to the whole peak oil subject as a pretext for imminent collapse of civilization, of course.
Probably a typo, but just as readily sounds like one of his coinages.
I often think back to an interview or article where, in re: Schismatrix, Bruce said he was no longer bothering to set stories in outer space, as, contrary to most people's expectations, you could conjure up just as weird or weirder scenarios in a place like Chattanooga, Tennessee.
My guess is it's a bumpy ride.
Myself, I've long since moved past the originals and prefer to listen to Lennon/McCartney's work as performed by dogs.
Watch your blind spot, Maverick!
In the meantime, our generation gave birth to personal computers and cell phones, so it's not a total loss, but there never was another OMFG moment like the Moon walk.
FTFY
How could humanoids remain a dominant configuration through billions of years of evolution as depicted in TNG? Seems like various forms would have plenty of time to develop multiple eyeballs etc. Humans are unique among primates in our upright stance, as opposed to the quadrupedal gait found in other primates. Was that supposed to have been baked into the cake in the TNG universe too, or was it considered an inevitable part of developing sapience?
I always thought Ursula LeGuin's Hainish Universe was a more sensible/plausible premise, where one species seeds itself throughout the local area of the galaxy in various ways in the past few million years - combining its DNA with that of local primates on Earth, for instance, thus humanity's aggressive streak as compared with other intelligent species.
"How big is your dick?
Oh, about 4 inches.
Ha ha ha, doesn't it bother you that it's so small?
Why should it? If it were any wider I couldn't get it inside."
Shem, I have taken a woman. Inform the men.
Whatever Google cooks up has to be better conversation than what you get from the typical chat bot.
Raptors with jetpacks, no less:
"At 50,000 ft (15,000 m) there is very little air traffic and biodiversity, unless you go over the Himalayas," company director Michael Burdett tells Gizmag. "Implementing a system in these conditions will not obstruct any existing systems."
Uh, yeah. I'm thinking about the only organisms you're going to bump into at 50k feet would be Need For Speed skydivers like that Baumgartner dude.
Dynamically binding, you realize the magic. Statically binding, you see only the hierarchy.
