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No, that's Keith Richards you're thinking of.

Also read Greg Egan's Disapora. Your mind will be blown.

First World problems, no doubt.

Dune isn't that far out there. It's about two colonial powers fighting over resources and the one power taking advantage of the native people's religion and prophecies to gain their aid in the battle.

I still have several copies of this.

one of my favorite things in anime is how they always subvert known brands to avoid copyright hassle. i think my favorite is 'bepsi'. it's nothing fancy but i really like the sound of it. bepsi.

Or ask their friends loudly who people are and what things are.

I suspect it's because they don't want to give free advertising to brands. I strongly doubt that Microsoft or Apple is going to sue over screenshots in a movie.

Finally, report your find to local researchers.

Sherlock nails it. They rarely show the person during the process of composition, instead you see the reaction of the person receiving the message, which is generally the more dramatic.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Well, to quote Homer Simpson "Remember, it's uter-US...not uter-you."

I think it gets around the different shape requirements because while the ball looks spherical, there is not a perfectly symmetrical arrangement of clips and some of the space is taken up by the clip "handles".

Bless the Maker and all His Water.

Ursula Le Guin is mandatory reading!!!

There's an actual biological reason for that: The part of your brain that measures time passing slows down like everything else when you get old. As a result the world seems to move more quickly and the days grow shorter.

Go before you get killed on a Russian submarine.

don't forget the gold and silver automatons that the Greek god Hephaestus used to man his forge.

I think it's referring to the acting and stunts. She was doing all those scenes portraying zero gravity with an actual 40lb suit on so she felt winded in real life.