I don't know if many here have read the Manifold series, but it is easily one of the best scifi trilogies ever. Each book is a different perspective on a time frame of millions of years, quite interesting and a deep thought provocking look into what will become of earth and humans in the deep future.
I really enjoy reading slashdot, but really this is like 3 years old. My high school science team won a robot contest with this thing back in 2001. We modified it a little bit and wrote a BASIC program and then left the little bugger go at it. It actually is quite amazing, although be forewarned it is more difficult than it looks, my friends and i went through 3 drives to get the parts that we needed or broke or were missing from the other drives. Once built though it is amazing. I probably still have it somewhere i will have to post so pics of my modified "floppy"
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I don't know if many here have read the Manifold series, but it is easily one of the best scifi trilogies ever. Each book is a different perspective on a time frame of millions of years, quite interesting and a deep thought provocking look into what will become of earth and humans in the deep future.
I really enjoy reading slashdot, but really this is like 3 years old. My high school science team won a robot contest with this thing back in 2001. We modified it a little bit and wrote a BASIC program and then left the little bugger go at it. It actually is quite amazing, although be forewarned it is more difficult than it looks, my friends and i went through 3 drives to get the parts that we needed or broke or were missing from the other drives. Once built though it is amazing. I probably still have it somewhere i will have to post so pics of my modified "floppy"