Of COURSE they do.
I just hope nobody gets the idea to nudge the comet towards, say, Washington...or Iraq---or the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan...or....
---Al Schroeder III of MINDMISTRESS---technologically advanced armor, incredibly brilliant mind, and unlike Dr. Doom, was not mishandled and mischarecterized in a recent major motion picture.
"I'm all for free speech, I just don't think we have a right to put our nose in China's internal affairs and tell them that they're wrong."
Well...we have every right to SAY it's wrong. That's what free speech is all about.
Obviously this is not something to go to war about. Economic sanctions, maybe. But it's sad when a mind's muzzled.---Al
Well, let's see...
I met my wife through a Julie Schwatz comics lettercolumn in SUPERMAN. She used to read comics, and got interested again by the first SUPERMAN movie. We started writing, six months later met face-to-face, and six months after that got marrried.
In May we celebrated our twenty-first wedding anniversary.
We've had three kids.
All of whom owe their existence, in a sense, to two Cleveland boys, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, dreaming of a ludicrous character who can fly.
But it's not just us. Carl Sagan was inspired by the John Carter/Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs to become a scientist and search for extraterrestrial life, for instance. Many people take fictional heroes and use them to pattern their lives after---sometimes too much, like the comics, Star Wars, or Star Trek convention-goer, but at the very least to inspire them.
How many policemen were first inspired by Sherlock Holmes stories, or Raymond Chandler stories? How many scientists have been spawned by reading science fiction when younger? Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Asimov, Clarke...
"The dream is better. Because only man plays the ape to his dreams." ---James Branch Cabell, making the point that embodied dreams (and what are fictional characters but these?) sometimes leads to, inspires us to, wonderful realities. ---Al
20 years away?
I remember, as a kid, in 1960, picking up a book called "Our Friend the Atom" and one of the predictions was that fusion power was twenty years away.
I hope so. But I'm not counting on it.---Al
Keeping sf ahead of the science...
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Well, so much for my webcomics character at other devices keeping above the curve of science....that software sounds very like the "lifeloom" described, or even the "metamother".
Oh, well. It was inevitable that someone sooner or later would build an easier interface to do genetic manipulation.---Al
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Of COURSE they do.
I just hope nobody gets the idea to nudge the comet towards, say, Washington...or Iraq---or the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan...or....
---Al Schroeder III of MINDMISTRESS---technologically advanced armor, incredibly brilliant mind, and unlike Dr. Doom, was not mishandled and mischarecterized in a recent major motion picture.
Maybe that's what happened to Osama. Maybe Cthulhu ate him...---Al
"I'm all for free speech, I just don't think we have a right to put our nose in China's internal affairs and tell them that they're wrong." Well...we have every right to SAY it's wrong. That's what free speech is all about. Obviously this is not something to go to war about. Economic sanctions, maybe. But it's sad when a mind's muzzled.---Al
Well, let's see... I met my wife through a Julie Schwatz comics lettercolumn in SUPERMAN. She used to read comics, and got interested again by the first SUPERMAN movie. We started writing, six months later met face-to-face, and six months after that got marrried. In May we celebrated our twenty-first wedding anniversary. We've had three kids. All of whom owe their existence, in a sense, to two Cleveland boys, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, dreaming of a ludicrous character who can fly. But it's not just us. Carl Sagan was inspired by the John Carter/Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs to become a scientist and search for extraterrestrial life, for instance. Many people take fictional heroes and use them to pattern their lives after---sometimes too much, like the comics, Star Wars, or Star Trek convention-goer, but at the very least to inspire them. How many policemen were first inspired by Sherlock Holmes stories, or Raymond Chandler stories? How many scientists have been spawned by reading science fiction when younger? Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Asimov, Clarke... "The dream is better. Because only man plays the ape to his dreams." ---James Branch Cabell, making the point that embodied dreams (and what are fictional characters but these?) sometimes leads to, inspires us to, wonderful realities. ---Al
Thanks. Life is always better with a dose of Monty Python in the morning.---Al
20 years away? I remember, as a kid, in 1960, picking up a book called "Our Friend the Atom" and one of the predictions was that fusion power was twenty years away. I hope so. But I'm not counting on it.---Al
Well, so much for my webcomics character at other devices keeping above the curve of science....that software sounds very like the "lifeloom" described, or even the "metamother". Oh, well. It was inevitable that someone sooner or later would build an easier interface to do genetic manipulation.---Al
Not really. Did the original thirteen states banding together as the United States lessen their independence from England?--Al