“Not only is Bezos reportedly buying one of the largest sailing superyachts in the world. He’s also reported to be buying a “smaller” support vessel that will follow the big yacht around carrying all the “toys” (personal submarine, aircraft, various other yachts, cars etc.) that just won’t fit on the mothership.”

A luxury yacht was enough for Emilio Largo in Thunderball, and more to the point for Elliot Carver in Tmorrow Never Dies.

First time I saw a boar in the wild I was looking at a moose on the other side of a large field and noted something small at her side and thought ‘those are strange looking calves’.

Sexualized perhaps, but certainly not sexy.

The dogs would just form up in packs and eat the zombies. Dogs aren´t picky about rotting meat once they get hungry.

They can always do a low budged sequel “PTSD strikes back”. It consists only of Cruise, Blunt and a therapist where they get to deal with the trauma of having died hundreds of times.

“The better suspended the detector is (the closer to free-fall it can be),”

It’s consensual sex between two adults. Who cares if they are different species?

Burner, that’s why I wrote about humans versus dogs and wolves, not elephants.

I think the author underestimate how deadly humans can be. Not the average couch potato, he is toast in a fight, but people who are reasonably well trained and from the start go all in and accept that they will get hurt but have to keep fighting.

Buterin donated shiba inu coin, a joke on a joke. You can transfer it quickly, but just by announcing his transfer the value dropped 30%.There is no way you can convert it to real money quickly without totally crashing the currency since there aren’t enough buyers.

I don’t know if Bolsonaro had anything to do with the creation of the law, but he did sign a law against child marriage in Brazil, so even Bolsonaro can do something good now and then:

Only if there happened to be any penguins near the impact spot. Antarctica is big, and even this blast only flattened a tiny piece of it.

It’s true that the entity running the simulation may change us at the same time as the rules so that we won’t notice the change, but it’s also possible he doesn’t care. Maybe one day the moon will be gone just so he can see the effect that has on the life of Earth. If we’re unlycky it’s a kid playing an advanced…

The difference is that if someone is running Earth as a simulation he can at any time change the rules or just turn off the simulation.

That superintelligence isn’t really going to destroy Earth. It’s just bored and comes up with games like this to see what happens.

Why not both? There is no reason for machines to get rid of humans, even if they may have a case for taking control. Iain Banks showed how it can work.

Has anyone made a movie about Remus and Romulus and the founding of Rome?

I think it would be better to start making a sustainable civilization on Earth. At the moment we can’t even live on an initially hospitable planet without trashing it. Once we can do that we may be able to learn to handle a planet that doesn’t give us anything for free the way the Earth does.

As far as we can tell it’s a myth that slaves built the pyramids. Archeological evidence suggest it was free workers. Possibly something to keep people busy while the Nile was flooded so they couldn’t work in agriculture.