Im intrigued to the possibility that they could keep rising the bet. They seem to be all aware of being connected, and... and... what else? Being able to invade the mind of others just looking at their eyes?

Never heard a child to claim that don’t want to sleep? In a world where those whishes come true, he won’t.

It would be a good life

A single drop of red matter can destroy a planet. And is more science fiction-y than most of the fantasy weapons shown here.

The premise of the show looked wrong to me. The villain of the week will be a super too, we are talking about a tv series where each episode is like Superman II, where punching will be the main attack, and the target of those punchs will be a (not particulary strong looking) girl.

AILF will be the newest porn meme

Unlike for planes and Independence Day’s alien ships, clouds are a not very subtle hiding place. They have matter around, all the time, enough to put a bright (x-ray) spot on them.

This is a prequel with the look and feel of a sequel, with too much references to things that will happen but wasn’t even in the mind on the author when writting the book.

How to turn a probably bad movie into a great one: explain why lost those 2 major actors... “It ATE them”. It could be as twice as good as Deep Blue Sea.

Probably the unique book that I read in the past (20+ years ago) more often was a dictionary, but of course, searching for single words. As a whole, The Lord of the Rings is the winner. Hyperion, Dune, Ender’s game, Flowers for Algernon, Small Gods and very few others more than twice, but for most is pretty rare that…

It looks like fantasy, until you start to scratch its surface

The drug is still available and keep being manufactured. Now that the effects of it are known (even by rumors) more people could join the 100% club. In fact, she may not has been the first.

Read it several years ago, I think it was based on strong or weak nuclear forces. And yes, maybe real world physics don’t apply.

The point of the book is life that is not based on chemistry, but nuclear forces.

So in his opinion life, intelligence and a civilization can’t emerge in a neutron star?

Evolution drives species to a point where they can survive. It usually don’t take giant leaps, but small and well footed steps. Maybe could be life (bigger than unicellular one) in gas giants. But the evolution to intelligence probably must pass through i.e. tool use and making, to have a distinct advantage over less…

A.C.Clarke misinterpreted what shape (and location in the solar system) had the monoliths, they are cone shaped, not parallelepiped. That explain the ancient pyramids, ziggurats and other near conic ancient civilizations structures.

MUST be both. Even with our best goodwill and effort will not be able to stop some potential, world devastating threats. But terraforming any other planet would take in the order of centuries, if ever, and we have very little candidates for that (forget about other solar systems). And we are already running out of…

Regarding not cooperating because they “violate human rights”... that was argued in the government that unilaterally abolished one of the fundamental human rights (privacy) for most of mankind at once?

We can’t live in pure space.. And the space habitats we built so far are more for somewhat short visits rather than living. But