"I picture a classroom full of kids with oculus rifts, and they're piloting the ROV in real time through ocean canyons," Stackpole said.

That's just 'zoom'... I was expecting more this:

12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia.

Freycinet National Park on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia. Very few people in Australia's lowest populated state with idyllic beaches, beautiful mountains and surrounded by vineyards.

Not really a selfie, but... Ed White! First US Spacewalk. I love this picture.

I didn't have any idea how to pronounce 'Coelacanth' until my bio-anthropology professor said it out loud about a week ago. I was pleased to see the word in this article and also know how to say it.

This is why it is important to take pebbles form one place to another. The little stone from Haleakala: set it on the very top of an Austrian alp. For the alien archaeologists.

This movie really blew me away, and the score was a big reason why.

"Most major cities have disgusting tap water. Either foul tasting or the chemical flavor is ridiculous."

I'm not sure how to put this into words, but here goes:

It sort of feels like it becomes more...I dunno, real? Like, the pretend effect of shifting perspective makes it more accurate or something.

Even though I know these are artist renditions and the perspective is forced/artificial, it's still fascinating.

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson matched with Marconi Union's album Different Colors , thats a particularly strong connection. I often listen to a single album on repeat when reading a new book that I think will match the tone or the setting. I like mixing the memories together, getting flashbacks of music from…

I listened to Kid A by Radiohead non-stop when I first read dune. For me now they are permanently linked and I can't think of one without remembering the other

You're going to be so popular here.

Yes if only for my entertainment. Just create superzoos.

If the sex robot were human enough to seem really human, you start to run into the moral problem of whether it has consciousness.
If a robot has consciousness at a human adult level, then it has the capacity to consent to sexual activities. If the robot consents, then everything's ethical. Ethical problems solved.

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Very dashing indeed.

John G violated and killed your wife.

I was wondering why I can't see that kind of detail through my 8" dobsonian scope until I followed the link and found out what kind of scope he's using. That's just ridiculous. And yes, I'm jealous.