...at some point in the future, I will coalesce into the god-machine and become part of the universal omnipotence.

Liz Lemon thinks they are, and that's good enough for me.

I have some bad news for you: in the cosmic scheme of things, none of us exist. Not you, not me, not Julius Caesar or Genghis Khan. Recorded history spans approximately 5200 years, Homo sapiens has existed for approximately 200,000, and history books are cloudy about events that occurred less than 50 years ago. Take a…

I'm sort of surprised by the view of sex as primarily for reproduction on display in the comments. If anything is Puritanical here, it's that idea. Don't any of you people have sex for fun?

You have an adorably rational and linear view of human progress and a disappointingly serious view of sex.

Also not a biologist here, but I was under the impression that one of the claims of epigenetics research was that some gene expression occurring during an organism's lifetime is heritable. The simple idea being that external environmental factors can switch genes "on" or "off", or change the way they operate, and that…

Huh. When I'm done talking to someone, I simply announce, as loud as possible, "THIS CONVERSATION IS DONE AND I'M LEAVING NOW." It seems to work - I've never had a second conversation with anyone.

Who's pants got whatnow?

I think it was Joe Haldeman's "Forever War" where the only way to travel on a spaceship was naked, anesthetized, and sealed in a pod filled with goo. After this guy's "experiments", I'm getting ready for that.

Which is why Sputnik won the Cold War for the USSR. Oh, wait.

I do.

A space program does not a winning superpower make.

I have a reasonable idea of how this meeting went. "It's Homeward Bound...but with dinosaurs!!"

I know how to settle this...

Soon...
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You're talking about this, right? There were no arrests made and no police involved – just a few overreacting school officials. Not sure what point you're trying to make here.

Cool cover art, but is it silly of me to feel like anything worth reading should be able to be summed up in one paragraph?

I wouldn't want somebody who can't separate fiction from reality reading Catcher in the Rye either.

1) Yup, the government wants to take your guns because they know that, when they send in the National Guard to round up all the dissenters, the only thing standing in their way will be a few dozen rednecks with hunting rifles. The next American Revolution is coming, brother - start bottling your urine!