pffft! .. silly scientists.

they *do* have a plan.

so .. more rapes, then .. but sensitively presented?

what will the “us” be that would need to be saved?

as usual, the US will snort with derision. And then, when Russia begins to make progress, the US will get into a panic and race to catch up. And then the flag-wavers US will snort with derision when Russia says it’s not in a race.

Memento is a great allegory for the manipulative mass media and the short-term memory public

i envisage a series of articles for psychopaths:

pfft! .. e is my favorite irrational number

Darned Ruskies.

if these F-15 “Grim Reapers” were used by the US against ISIS, then they’re not very good, are they. Very photogenic, though.

the key problem isn’t the lack of food. The key problem is western coordinated economic terrorism that perverts local economies.

here’s hoping they get the entire cast of Cheers for a never-a-dull-moment Ape-Com.

aye. Consciousness is emergent from the organism’s self-maintaining (as in self-repairing, etc) feedback process. (Does it have to be an “organism”? Is this a religious bias? ie .. being god’s chosen species, the more human-like it is, the more likely it is to have consiousness.) The more sophisticatedly structured…

don’t carpet with fake grass .. carpet with carpet!

i want to see a Merchant of Venice/Fantastic Four crossover!

if we use the most natural number system, continued fractions (continued fractions are based on ratios of quantaties and are independent of any number base), to represent phi (the golden ratio) the numerical “specialness” of the fibonacci sequence is immediately apparent. Expanding out the continued fraction form…

Wow! .. makes you wonder how much an actual hobbit would sell for.

anyone interested in this stuff might be interested in using the J “Programming Language” (an interpreter) .. the uses of which can be as simple or sophisticated as you like.
http://www.jsoftware.com/

even more terrifying (for those who control us)! .. intelligent weapons systems that become sentient and refuse to kill!

the huge huge mistake that TV and movies make is assuming the starting point for SF is the future, gadgets and spectacle.