Archaeologists will dig up the first lunar base and discover it was built entirely with iPhones.

Dear Light on truth: That was magnificent. In my experience everything planned by bureaucracy quickly gains widespread acceptance. My own early papers on quantum genomics in game theory were also suppressed as unpublished. Those documented facts remain undocumented to this day.

Can anyone have a center for probing?

dog observes food - food is eaten - state is changed - state processed by dog - not only is this tangible proof of the observation abilities of the dog but it is also evidence of higher learning. The output is the absence of the input. The dog is not merely commenting abstractly on the observation but materially altering it's existence. This also neatly bypasses the "translation problem" whereby no external observer can be sure that you have read a student's exam paper simply by noting that you put a tick at the bottom. If you were to eat that exam paper then the ambiguity would dissolve.

I'm picturing an XKCD type histogram showing all the design feedback comments. I think "Center of gravity" would be an outlier.

Is this how Cory Doctorow reproduces?

Anthropocentric Chauvinist! Dogs observe things too!

You have to factor in the cost of the permanently attached hangar that crushed it.

when he stops playing altogether!