Some of the stories up here are just really sad and my heart goes out to you guys. I hope my mom comes out of the next round of chemo fine.

What is your position on suicide kits being sold, say at the pharmacy?

I think a problem with slippery slope arguments is that reality tends to be more like a series of building avalanches. But I think we can trust basic ethics to limit mundane, non-dystopic involuntary suicide to the *really* downtrodden, inconvenient, or otherwise blameworthy. So I support this, depending on what…

I think wormholes.

Or we might be committing human-rights violations that they wish to put an end to. Or maybe the alien intelligence indicates that we might be harbouring antimatter devices obtained on the alien black market.

3) I'd love it if there were a treasure-hunting game, sort of like we have with our iphones but for rich-dude aliens with armadas.

Wow, that's like the cat mated with catfood.

I wonder if there's a tv trope entry for the "His name doesn't even sound real" conspiracy theorist convention?

Take those and add internal competition to the mix.

this premise reminds me of Teenagers From Outer Space.

i think one potential is that we may be a store of cheap sentient modules. They may also have ways of uploading our individual consciousnesses into helper gestalts for individual aliens, also for extraction for the alien consumer back home. Outside of that some or other more mundane version of that that a human writer…

This makes sense from a biodiversity perspective. Assuming we have ideal conditions for biodiversity and an ideal amount of time for greater than average opportunities for immune and other solutions to evolve, pharmaceuticals are what our planet is a unique store of. Also, maybe they have nano / evo / process /…

Reading this while listening to "Mr. and Mrs. Compost" by Bibio... bliss.

At least it's not coke.

Bril-fucking-liant! I discovered the series three weeks ago, and have endangered my career-defining exams by watching the whole series three times in a row since then. So glad season 5 can be awesome.

I don't know about the scientific side of things, but we in real life might find it anxiolytic to have a kinesthetic sense of what can go wrong/when to get revved in obscure situations.

Three fish and one very small man.

It would be awesome if the wearer was tall, had a good jaw and was clean-shaven

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Don "The Demon" Donaldson's vampire doppleganger