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I agree with you and add this point: Since when are reunions about moving on with your life? At best you're reuniting with the people who knew you before you became who you are, at worst you're trying to use other people to feel better about where you are in life.

I suppose it is true that you can do both on facebook now. You can even get drunk and hit on that girl who turned you down that now has three kids, you just don't have to wait for some arbitrary multiple of five years to do it.

Well, if it's anything like politics, you can pretty much say whatever you want if you follow it up with "Not Intended to be a factual statement".

I've never heard of this before. Interesting stuff. In the idea you've come up with, we'd be preserving consciousness in the Matrix powered by a perpetual motion machine. It takes away the human body from the equation, which solves a great many problems (and I'm expecting humanity to change anyway. If we haven't evolved any further on these timescales by choice or by chance, that would be very strange). Now I'm imagining humanity becoming flying brains and creating the Infosphere.

Look, I know it's a bit far out, but haven't we pretty much concluded even if the Big Rip doesn't happen and that protons don't decay, entropy will eventually cause the heat death of the universe? I mean, I realize that it's around 10^14 years out and won't really be a concern if we can't escape the earth in the next 1.4 billion years or so. Don't get me wrong, I think humanity is perfectly capable of saving itself from asteroid bombardments and the death of stars. But, my (admittedly limited) understanding of what's going to happen to the universe keeps me from really getting excite about projects like this.

On the other hand, the goal here is to make sure we live long enough to face these problems. And that's pretty important.

I'd visit more often if they would give people an apple upon request. Of course, they'd probably be McIntosh. In that case, I probably wouldn't stop by. Too soft for me. However, if they gave away Cameos...

Nah. Still not close enough (30 mile drive to the closest Apple store, which is much further than the 5 mile drive to the closest grocery store.)

Why Does the Sun Shine?

I guess what he's really trying to say here is "That's no moon"

And if you didn't see the joke coming, shame on you.

It's September. Maybe you should consider cutting back a bit...

And, apparently, <i> isn't the same as <em>. A little bit older every day.

Yes, it is invite-only. But, it still has 25 million users, which sounds like a lot of people. I guess they must all be pushers instead of users.

I know, I was trolling for someone to call me out on meta-analyzing your meta-analysis. I like recursion.

Wow, a joke about meta jokes followed by noting people critique jokes about meta jokes. It's turtles all the way down!

Am I the only one that thought of Sphere? Granted, it's in the wrong body of water and shaped wrong (I think the novel described it as something like a B2), but.... you know. Underwater ship that might have previously been used for extraplanetary travel...

Fine, I'll go back to work.