There are people doing good things (for whatever you consider good), people doing bad things (for whatever you consider bad), people doing neutral things (for any other action), and people doing nothing.
Anonymous people play Dungeons and Dragons. Check! Therefore anyone playing Dungeons and Dragons *must* be a terrorist threat. Dungeon masters are really the leaders of terrorist cells.
I knew those nerdy looking guys were up to *something*.
I suggest you branch out into other genres of fiction and non-fiction. You'll enjoy life more.
I do read other things like I recently read the report into the 911 Commission which gives insight how to read the report into 911. I don't mind books on business and psychology and of course loads of computer text books - but I guess that's not entertainment.
I get so busy but you are probably right, any suggestions of what is worth the time to read?
With a human, all necessary precautions should be taken to make it not only not painful, but as comfortable as possible.
Isn't it ironic that terminally ill people are made to suffer their illness through to their death. I guess the punishment for being terminally ill is a lot worse than the death penalty.
But you're right, I'm thinking it was planned, except that doesn't explain the film melting
It must of been planned. What better way to ensure you have a group of hard core Trek fans there than by say 'it's an extended Wrath of Khan'. The burn up must of been staged and Abrams was testing the film on the hardcore fans to gauge the reaction. Got to give it to him on knowing his market.
There's a big difference between what a sci-fi fan finds entertaining and what the average guy on the street finds entertaining.
Exactly! Most of the Science Fiction Entertainment I get is from Sci Fi Books. I grew up reading Clarke (read 2001 when I was 9). I just read through all of Alastair Reynolds 'Revelation Space' series, I thought 'Marrow' Robert Reed was great, I've consumed most of Bear's writings. I've got boxes of Science Fiction books downstairs that I've read but haven't got around to getting rid of. Besides, the pictures are better in the books than the movies.
Even so I can't resist the eye candy of a well made Science Fiction movie.
You are, of course, absolutely correct. I just wanted an excuse to say Science Fiction instead of Sy Fy or Syence Fycshun, which scars me with it's idiocracy.
Yay, I got myself a stalker coming back to haunt me
hahahaha, such an ego, you think this is about you.
with hardly even related discussions!
riigghht, I talked about some conceptualised science fiction in science. You said "I hate it when scifi losers act like they have the monopoly on imagination" and "I bet you most of your fellow scifi loser friends from school became shit like accountants" and "Where would we be without you scifi loser type guys?". Fucking Hilarious, two days later this is on the front of slashdot, ha ha
finally read your
oh, I didn't actually care if *you* read it, but some other science fiction fans might and laugh at your humiliation, Get it?
fascinating debate then think again, failtroll.
such an ego, but I can see it's had the result I expected. I thought 'he wouldn't be dumb enough to...' but there you are, giving me a forum to extend your discomfort for entertainment, and in case you forgot...
Hint: If you don't resort to ad hominem attacks people will have an intelligent conversation with you.
Hey, remember when you called us all sci fi nerd losers. After the comments you made on that thread I'm surprised you were dumb enough to comment in this one.
Anyone else find his stories hard to follow or is it just me? Even with his short stories I end up going, "Wait, what?"
I usually find myself going "How the fuck is he gonna top this one?", I got sucked in to his writing with Eon, from then on I found the scale of his books addictive.
I read 'City at the End of Time' over christmas, and again the scale was epic and unexpected. It appeared (to me) there was some hat tipping to Clarke as one of the Chapters included a history which included the City in Clarke's 'City and the Stars' (another one of my favourites) although I haven't checked to be sure. Also I found there was some evidence that Asimov had influenced Bear's writing towards the end of the book.
So since I also didn't mind Halo (games) I think that it's great that Bear is writing about it, and hopefully will bring some depth to the story. I think that Bear is one of the few writers capable of creating science fiction on the scale that can encapsulate the forerunners story (I sound like a Microsoft manager at a meeting playing buzzword bingo). Halo fan's should rejoice that a writer such as this may be involved in the direction of Halo games, what a bonus (especially if it gives me a strategic advantage when playing the game;-).
Having said that though I think it would be even better to base a video game on the scale of Eon and The Way.
NAME nslockup - totally fuck Internet name servers indefinitely
SYNOPSIS nslockup [-option] [name | -] [server]
DESCRIPTION Nslockup is a program to totally fuck up Internet domain name servers. Nslockup has two modes: fun and blackmail. Fun mode allows the user to fuck up name servers for entertainment. In blackmail mode nslockup can fry organisations, countries or the entire fucking internet. Blackmail mode is the 3.???? before 4.Profit.
Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of Nuclear Physics at the City University of New York, was quoted to say of TMI
"It appears that every few months, since 1990, a new estimate is made of core debris, often with little relationship to the previous estimate. Estimates range form 608.8 kg to 1,322 kg... This is rather unsettling....," he concluded. "The still unanswered questions are therefore: precisely how much uranium is left in the core, and how much uranium can collect in the bottom of the reactor to initiate re-criticality."
It would seem that the effort to bring the reactor core to a benign state remains an ongoing process.
If you decide to reply, don't forget to actually *answer* the questions about why the U.S is spending to go back to the moon, or the asteriod deflection and the links..don't forget the links. I mean there has to be an incentive to read the rants of a self righteous asshole that just wants to go on the attack - like you did from the very beginning.
Oh, and what was the sci fi you have actually read?
But since you couldn't answer those points I think it is safe to presume that you are full of shit.
Hint: If you don't resort to ad hominem attacks people will have an intelligent conversation with you.
how unfortunate for you - but it's explains a lot. This was my favourite part, notice how I used your own words to parody you with the description of your "visionary" software, get it?
you wouldn't say that if you understood the _vision_ behind it. You see,[inserts finger into own anus, withdraws it, then sniffs it] that's not original because of the technique it uses[rubs hand on penis], that's original by the vision that guides[touches own nipples], that is processing anything as images[sniffs own fart], that's how it does things other can't do[goes off to masturbate - again].
It's ok for you to pretend you're not humiliated so you can pick up the remains of your shattered dignity. I was rofl, lol.
Hint: If you don't resort to ad hominem attacks people will have an intelligent conversation with you.
Well I see you've strung together another ranting sililoquy, full of strawman arguments.
lol... whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean, what does it have to do with space exploration? You're not going to move billions of people into outer space anyways, ever. Not even in 1,000 years. That's just retarded.
lol, you know how the 'world keeps us alive', you see the world is made up of living biological systems, referred to sometimes as a "biosphere". Through the externalities of human activities we been polluting (or poisoning) them so that they are getting to the point of not being able to recover. Some are already beyond that point (i.e. ocean acidification). Will they last another thousand years at this rate of consumption? Unlikely
That's what it has to do with space *infrastucture* programs. Potential options for easing the damage done and a way to maintain living standards for people. Why, is that not an option worth attempting? Too science fiction for you? Here's science fiction for you, what do you think declining population will mean to civilisation?
I never said 'move' billions of people. Thats your retarded strawman not mine. You keep doing that, are you a scientologist or something?
and then whining that you've regressed cause you wouldn't be able to win that same winning contest again today.
What a stupid comparison, if we bought *your* reasoning to the computer industry we'd go from multi-core cpu's back to an abacus. We are talking about industrial capacity, like if we didn't have the ability to build jet aircraft or ships anymore.
The Moon is dull from a scientific point of view. There's no compelling scientific reason to spend hundreds of billions to send people back there.
Well, since you avoided the question again by saying I've missed the point, I'll ask you again, why is the US going back to the moon?
Once again you're talking as a scifi nerd.
Once again you *assumed* where my position comes from. I never claimed *all* the innovative ideas came from science fiction, that's your strawman argument. Did you even look up the names I supplied and who they were, or are you to mentally lazy to cut/paste/search.
You need to understand that space exploration isn't meant to be exciting, it's meant to advance science.
So all those military and communication satellites up there are advancing science are they, or are they space infrastructure?
And having people on the Moon just isn't worth it, no matter how wet it makes your bed sheets.
So I ask you again, why is the US going back to the moon? That is the capacity the Orion capsule is a part off.
-STFU about redundancy already, even if we tried right now we couldn't terraform Mars. There's no redundancy, just fucking face it already.
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHH, see OP. Do actually read posts or just launch into a tirade.
There's a reason why space agencies actually test things to deflect eventual such asteroids, thing which must I recall only happens every few hundreds of million years.
I've seen 'concepts' proposed for testing, and perhaps a planned mission but an actual test mission, I don't think so.
The possibility is still very present with the odd's pegged at 1 in 45 . That's pretty close odds for an entire civilisation, I've bet on horses with longer odds than that. That's closer and a lot sooner than the millions of years since the last one especially when the actual ability to deflect an asteroid is still science fiction.
So when were these tests carried out on an asteroid?
I am certainly glad I wore my flame proof undies today! I really think you should take a stress pill and lie down, you're getting a little to worked up over things. I'll do my best to wade through your rant and salvage some semblance of intelligent conversation, dood, but I think you should really drink less coffee.
The survival of our race for the next 1000 years?
In case you haven't noticed most of the worlds life sustaining systems are in decline. You should get out more often. I could go on but I get bored easily. Educate yourself.
NASA are scientists, they do science, they're not supposed to be the ones who save us from the end of times, that's not their job.
Where did I say it was? Really that level of aggression is bad for your blood pressure.
Going to the Moon next month? What for? What's so special about the fucking Moon?
I guess you wern't paying attention. In the late 1960's the United States landed a man on the moon, and for several years after. That capacity no longer exists. It's called regression. Don't have that capacity any more, get it? could do it, can't do it any more.
There's a reason why we don't do much more than send a couple of probes there every decade at best, it's because it's not a very interesting place.
I think that the astronauts that landed there would disagree. I'd go given an opportunity. What qualifies you to *know* that the moon isn't very interesting? Maybe you're not interested but the U.S is spending a lot of money to go back there, why do you think that is? I think the problem you are having is that you are making too many assumptions, you don't really care and you can't understand why others do. I feel sorry for you. Maybe it's just that *you* just can't conceptualise why the moon is interesting and therefore why building a space infrastructure is important (hint - craters).
We don't, scifi isn't the future as it should be or will be.
Well actually my impressions of where we *should* be came from the space program itself, of which I am also interested. But since you need some treatment with a clue-stick, sci-fi is about what the future *could* be.
For all we care about we don't need to ever walk on another planet again.
Ahh, enter the 'apathy factor'. Since you don't care if we get off this planet, perhaps you can explain what humanity is to do in the *inevitable* event of an extinction level event like a meteor hitting the earth - send Bruce Willis perhaps? It's called redundancy. Need redundancy for survival - get it?
Then, STFU about the imagination thing. I hate it when scifi losers act like they have the monopoly on imagination.
Very ill mannered aren't you. If you look at people like Sergey Korolyov and Wernher von Braun that had a vision, much of what they conceptualise *still* looks like science fiction. And yes Rodenberry first conceptualised what could be the modern mobile phone in Star Trek - what the fuck is wrong with that? Can you point to another tv program at the time that envisaged it. I could say Jules Verne first conceptualised the nuclear submarine - guess what the first US nuclear submarine was called. Every modern piece of technology looked like science fiction when it was conceptualised. Wright never said 'hey what do you think we can do with this flyer thingy? I just made'. When the "science" is conceptualised it's "fiction". Get it? "science" (that's the "sci" part) plus "fiction" (thats the "fi" part). Get it? "science fiction", "sci fi".
I have a great imagination and I use that to create cool stuff, just like you said (check my sig)
Well whoopdee fucken doo. Looks like a frequency by time sound file editor. You are hardly the first person to have done
A real space program? Dude, we landed a robot on the moist and frozen shores of Titan, and we've got a few machines sending readings from the very fucking edge of the solar system.
I'm not taking anything away from the achievements of the Space science programs, I commend them. At the very minimum though I would at least expect an organisation like NASA to be able to earn royalties from the inventions that came from the space program so they are properly funded.
Oh wait sorry, do you mean you would rather have had some guy play golf on an asteroid?
No I mean an well engineered space infrastructure program to lay the foundations for the survival of our race beyond the next 1000 years.
Face it, space exploration is pursued for the sake of the advancement of science, not for the satisfaction of science fiction fans.
Oh really? Ok, let's land on the moon next month and do some science. Oh, I forgot, we can't because no nation has the capability to land on the moon, because we have actually gone backwards with what we can do.
Face it, imagination comes first and then science. It's the people with vision that make things happen in this world and if it wasn't for those science fiction fans you wouldn't have a space science program or mobile phone's, aircraft or the internet. The general populace don't give a fuck if there is a space program and are comforted with what the politicians dole out as a general balance between the apathy they feel towards space programs and what is required to demonstrate a technical superiority over rivals, nothing more.
Think about that next time you criticise the science fiction fan's who lobby the government to provide the space agencies with more budget for science and argue against those who would see what little space program we have dismantled.
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Anonymous people play Dungeons and Dragons. Check! Therefore anyone playing Dungeons and Dragons *must* be a terrorist threat. Dungeon masters are really the leaders of terrorist cells.
I knew those nerdy looking guys were up to *something*.
Many thousands of them chained together would make one of these.
I do read other things like I recently read the report into the 911 Commission which gives insight how to read the report into 911. I don't mind books on business and psychology and of course loads of computer text books - but I guess that's not entertainment.
I get so busy but you are probably right, any suggestions of what is worth the time to read?
Isn't it ironic that terminally ill people are made to suffer their illness through to their death. I guess the punishment for being terminally ill is a lot worse than the death penalty.
They get life in jail *and* the death penalty.
It must of been planned. What better way to ensure you have a group of hard core Trek fans there than by say 'it's an extended Wrath of Khan'. The burn up must of been staged and Abrams was testing the film on the hardcore fans to gauge the reaction. Got to give it to him on knowing his market.
Exactly! Most of the Science Fiction Entertainment I get is from Sci Fi Books. I grew up reading Clarke (read 2001 when I was 9). I just read through all of Alastair Reynolds 'Revelation Space' series, I thought 'Marrow' Robert Reed was great, I've consumed most of Bear's writings. I've got boxes of Science Fiction books downstairs that I've read but haven't got around to getting rid of. Besides, the pictures are better in the books than the movies.
Even so I can't resist the eye candy of a well made Science Fiction movie.
You are, of course, absolutely correct. I just wanted an excuse to say Science Fiction instead of Sy Fy or Syence Fycshun, which scars me with it's idiocracy.
If you don't like the taste of your own belligerence, then keep your mouth shut to admit you are my bitch, bitch. lol.
or just keep responding and be even more my bitch, bitch. lol.
hahahaha, such an ego, you think this is about you.
riigghht, I talked about some conceptualised science fiction in science. You said "I hate it when scifi losers act like they have the monopoly on imagination" and "I bet you most of your fellow scifi loser friends from school became shit like accountants" and "Where would we be without you scifi loser type guys?" . Fucking Hilarious, two days later this is on the front of slashdot, ha ha
oh, I didn't actually care if *you* read it, but some other science fiction fans might and laugh at your humiliation, Get it?
such an ego, but I can see it's had the result I expected. I thought 'he wouldn't be dumb enough to...' but there you are, giving me a forum to extend your discomfort for entertainment, and in case you forgot...
Hint: If you don't resort to ad hominem attacks people will have an intelligent conversation with you.
Hey, remember when you called us all sci fi nerd losers. After the comments you made on that thread I'm surprised you were dumb enough to comment in this one.
Then again maybe not ;)
I usually find myself going "How the fuck is he gonna top this one?", I got sucked in to his writing with Eon, from then on I found the scale of his books addictive.
I read 'City at the End of Time' over christmas, and again the scale was epic and unexpected. It appeared (to me) there was some hat tipping to Clarke as one of the Chapters included a history which included the City in Clarke's 'City and the Stars' (another one of my favourites) although I haven't checked to be sure. Also I found there was some evidence that Asimov had influenced Bear's writing towards the end of the book.
So since I also didn't mind Halo (games) I think that it's great that Bear is writing about it, and hopefully will bring some depth to the story. I think that Bear is one of the few writers capable of creating science fiction on the scale that can encapsulate the forerunners story (I sound like a Microsoft manager at a meeting playing buzzword bingo). Halo fan's should rejoice that a writer such as this may be involved in the direction of Halo games, what a bonus (especially if it gives me a strategic advantage when playing the game ;-).
Having said that though I think it would be even better to base a video game on the scale of Eon and The Way.
Now that's a game I would buy.
Don't any of you guy's rtfm
Today IBM announced that it would no longer be supplying Tea or Coffee to their office workforce.
This is a true story, don't laugh, it's not funny.
"It appears that every few months, since 1990, a new estimate is made of core debris, often with little relationship to the previous estimate. Estimates range form 608.8 kg to 1,322 kg... This is rather unsettling....," he concluded. "The still unanswered questions are therefore: precisely how much uranium is left in the core, and how much uranium can collect in the bottom of the reactor to initiate re-criticality."
It would seem that the effort to bring the reactor core to a benign state remains an ongoing process.
Sure you didn't ;-)
too little;do re-iterate
well if you insist
But since you couldn't answer those points I think it is safe to presume that you are full of shit.
Hint: If you don't resort to ad hominem attacks people will have an intelligent conversation with you.
too luminous;didn't register
oh well, just read it over and over until finally, you understand.
Hint: If you don't resort to ad hominem attacks people will have an intelligent conversation with you.
too lazy; don't read
how unfortunate for you - but it's explains a lot. This was my favourite part, notice how I used your own words to parody you with the description of your "visionary" software, get it?
It's ok for you to pretend you're not humiliated so you can pick up the remains of your shattered dignity. I was rofl, lol.
Hint: If you don't resort to ad hominem attacks people will have an intelligent conversation with you.
With your filesystem, or on it!
lol, you know how the 'world keeps us alive', you see the world is made up of living biological systems, referred to sometimes as a "biosphere". Through the externalities of human activities we been polluting (or poisoning) them so that they are getting to the point of not being able to recover. Some are already beyond that point (i.e. ocean acidification). Will they last another thousand years at this rate of consumption? Unlikely
That's what it has to do with space *infrastucture* programs. Potential options for easing the damage done and a way to maintain living standards for people. Why, is that not an option worth attempting? Too science fiction for you? Here's science fiction for you, what do you think declining population will mean to civilisation?
I never said 'move' billions of people. Thats your retarded strawman not mine. You keep doing that, are you a scientologist or something?
What a stupid comparison, if we bought *your* reasoning to the computer industry we'd go from multi-core cpu's back to an abacus. We are talking about industrial capacity, like if we didn't have the ability to build jet aircraft or ships anymore.
Well, since you avoided the question again by saying I've missed the point, I'll ask you again, why is the US going back to the moon?
Once again you *assumed* where my position comes from. I never claimed *all* the innovative ideas came from science fiction, that's your strawman argument. Did you even look up the names I supplied and who they were, or are you to mentally lazy to cut/paste/search.
So all those military and communication satellites up there are advancing science are they, or are they space infrastructure?
So I ask you again, why is the US going back to the moon? That is the capacity the Orion capsule is a part off.
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHH, see OP. Do actually read posts or just launch into a tirade.
I've seen 'concepts' proposed for testing, and perhaps a planned mission but an actual test mission, I don't think so.
The possibility is still very present with the odd's pegged at 1 in 45 . That's pretty close odds for an entire civilisation, I've bet on horses with longer odds than that. That's closer and a lot sooner than the millions of years since the last one especially when the actual ability to deflect an asteroid is still science fiction.
So when were these tests carried out on an asteroid?
In case you haven't noticed most of the worlds life sustaining systems are in decline. You should get out more often. I could go on but I get bored easily. Educate yourself.
Where did I say it was? Really that level of aggression is bad for your blood pressure.
I guess you wern't paying attention. In the late 1960's the United States landed a man on the moon, and for several years after. That capacity no longer exists. It's called regression. Don't have that capacity any more, get it? could do it, can't do it any more.
I think that the astronauts that landed there would disagree. I'd go given an opportunity. What qualifies you to *know* that the moon isn't very interesting? Maybe you're not interested but the U.S is spending a lot of money to go back there, why do you think that is? I think the problem you are having is that you are making too many assumptions, you don't really care and you can't understand why others do. I feel sorry for you. Maybe it's just that *you* just can't conceptualise why the moon is interesting and therefore why building a space infrastructure is important (hint - craters).
Well actually my impressions of where we *should* be came from the space program itself, of which I am also interested. But since you need some treatment with a clue-stick, sci-fi is about what the future *could* be.
Ahh, enter the 'apathy factor'. Since you don't care if we get off this planet, perhaps you can explain what humanity is to do in the *inevitable* event of an extinction level event like a meteor hitting the earth - send Bruce Willis perhaps? It's called redundancy. Need redundancy for survival - get it?
Very ill mannered aren't you. If you look at people like Sergey Korolyov and Wernher von Braun that had a vision, much of what they conceptualise *still* looks like science fiction. And yes Rodenberry first conceptualised what could be the modern mobile phone in Star Trek - what the fuck is wrong with that? Can you point to another tv program at the time that envisaged it. I could say Jules Verne first conceptualised the nuclear submarine - guess what the first US nuclear submarine was called. Every modern piece of technology looked like science fiction when it was conceptualised. Wright never said 'hey what do you think we can do with this flyer thingy? I just made'. When the "science" is conceptualised it's "fiction". Get it? "science" (that's the "sci" part) plus "fiction" (thats the "fi" part). Get it? "science fiction", "sci fi".
Well whoopdee fucken doo. Looks like a frequency by time sound file editor. You are hardly the first person to have done
I'm not taking anything away from the achievements of the Space science programs, I commend them. At the very minimum though I would at least expect an organisation like NASA to be able to earn royalties from the inventions that came from the space program so they are properly funded.
No I mean an well engineered space infrastructure program to lay the foundations for the survival of our race beyond the next 1000 years.
Oh really? Ok, let's land on the moon next month and do some science. Oh, I forgot, we can't because no nation has the capability to land on the moon, because we have actually gone backwards with what we can do.
Face it, imagination comes first and then science. It's the people with vision that make things happen in this world and if it wasn't for those science fiction fans you wouldn't have a space science program or mobile phone's, aircraft or the internet. The general populace don't give a fuck if there is a space program and are comforted with what the politicians dole out as a general balance between the apathy they feel towards space programs and what is required to demonstrate a technical superiority over rivals, nothing more.
Think about that next time you criticise the science fiction fan's who lobby the government to provide the space agencies with more budget for science and argue against those who would see what little space program we have dismantled.
Well I think Peavey 5150 is the only electric guitar amplifier capable of lifting an entire city into space.
Tricari Hocus Fabula.
Not that I know anything resembling a vague understanding of Latin, so don't beat me up too much Latin grammar Nazi's ;-)
Ah yes, life extending medicine and technology. A great hope. I guess I'm the April Fool, we're all gonna be all right after all!