exoplanet? also, it's not immutable,
hard to classify something that we barely see as a planet... it's just not useful.
i'm like, super confident it'll change if and when we develop the capability of seeing if planet-sized satellites of extrasolar stellar objects.
hypothetically, we'll progress to the point where we'll be able to simulate miniature universes. Which will soon thereafter outnumber the number of our universes. x:1
If each universe eventually spawned ever just two universes... i mean binary growth and all that. The probability that we exist in the root universe, of all the universes that could be created vanishes to zero.
And the God of our universe could really be a snot-nosed 16 year old who likes to mess with his creations.
Wouldn't that suck?
bzzt, wrong.
i mean, it's obvious to any thinking man that we're all living in a simulation produced in the real universe.
but that one will be more real, and more awesome than ours, because the information density has to necessarily be greater than our own.
well, obviously, went without saying.
no earthly bonds can hold a ninja, it's one of their racial bonuses.
... the per capita income in phillipines in 2013 was 3000... yeah... more than they could earn in a month.
well, oxygen does kinda wreck everything.
it kinda just like... super-wants all the electrons... all of them, in everything, everywhere.
classification does matter to a certain extent, i mean, they've refined the definitions of those words. so, true, the planet/oids don't care what we call them, and calling them something different won't change a thing about them, but it's useful when talking about them to group them according to shared characteristics.
satellites, moons, planets, planetoids, asteroids, stars, black holes... humans. it's kinda the point of language.
next they should do a study about how humans are also still subject to the law of gravity, and a study after that about how the laws of thermodynamics still hold sway over us.
I mean, who woulda thought that random mutations would actually make some people more or less likely to reproduce successfully?
:) don't know about you, but i'd rather my pilot have some skin in the game... if you know what i'm sayin.
... aren't you arguing that automation is the source of the decrease in aviation accidents... not the fact that we have those accidents, and 150 dead people is a hell of an incentive to try to train your pilots to prevent something similar?
i'd say drones are meant to be re-used... aren't they a couple million each? kinda cheap but not exactly disposable. you know what they call a disposable uav? a missile, we've got those.
hypothetically. The one they reference was that short "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love."
it is not hard to imagine a similar broadening of standards for speculative fiction in a longer-form category maybe even novel. I did skim that short story... and it's not even speculative.
they're effectively making the genre distinction meaningless.
i'd be pissed off at a award that claims that is disingenuous about its voting. I don't have the time to dig through the garbage anymore, and i look to these kinds of lists to figure out if there's anything to read or not.
I mean, i don't know about you, but i'd be righteously pissed if I saw a book in a bookstore that said "hugo award-winning" and had absolutely nothing to do with sci-fi or fantasy... i mean, i'd be pissed off for it wasting my time alone, not to speak of actually buying it sight unseen on the strength of an awards win.
There's something especially maddening about someone profiting from deception.
... let me say, i was a liberal, until the left left me behind, now i'm probably in the center.
the SJW, or whatever description you'll have for them, is shrill, aggressive and, if what i'm reading is correct and rolling them into the feminism/lbgt spectrum isn't incorrect, all about ideological purity.
i'm already frightened of the speed at which a virtual lynching of a person can happen, and over what. brendan eich supports the wrong position politically, no job. dan savage uses the wrong fucking word in a discussion about the use of those words, vilified.
SJW is no more "shutting down debate" than say, white-male, or teabagger, or libertarian, or liberal, or feminist etc. etc. just a quick shorthand for what their positions are.
SJW... god, the name makes me cringe, and i support many of the results they're looking for, just none of their tactics?
i support almost none of what the tea-party stands for... but i also feel like i'd rather have them as friends.
you're missing the point, it's not the way that they died, it's the glorification of their death. you list two cases as "atrocities" which is an arguable descriptor of police shootings... but at the very least, nobody is trumpeting them as the just and correct way that society should behave.
People are, at least I am, more appalled by the fact that a revenge execution is glorified.
i think what you were trying to find was this picture
... you really invoke something that happened pre-WW2? why not just invoke gas chambers? it's more timely. we've also got you know
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
racially motivated killings in the proximal part of the 20th century... but you had to go more than a century ago...
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