“First discovered in the 1960s, Smith Cloud is a starless ball of dust roughly 30 times the diameter of our Moon.”

As any rikshaw driver will tell you, it takes a lot energy to pull a human being around fast.

Just by random chance I’m sure they’ll get to a string that looks like that eventually.

Humans are a mass of contradictions and are astoundingly good at rationalizing and ignoring cognitive dissonance. That’s really the only way I know how to explain it.

Oh yeah, that will work plenty well. And, if necessary, we can expand that address space to uniquely label every particle of matter in the universe so, no problems there. I guess people won’t find it very memorable or each to pronounce though.

Yep and then the madness just cascades from there.

Look, all I want it is for future geologists and biologists to use “Synthozoic Era” for the period in the fossil record where artificial life predominates over emergent life millions of years from now.

I expect we’ll start seeing lots of “Mount Akdja9=-0fiospehr” and “Fas%^%djioseriashor Rivers” after a while. To be clear here that’s just me banging on keys until I get a unique string.

Referring to all those names on trip history map, this is what I mean by running out of names after a while. The universe is just too damn big to name it all.

I just want to say this movie is going to hit it right out of the park.

What a complete clusterfuck. Once again ideas that look clean and straightforward on paper, get gummed up by humans and politics.

The real estate and infrastructure bubble collapsed.

I think we can all think of movies that don’t age well as we grow up. One of these is, for me, was ET. I was 18 when it came out and it was a lot of fun. But watching it at 38 on the 20th anniversary release, it was just kinda, meh, y’know?

All I’m saying is nature can be a guide but it doesn’t have all the answers.

I think the one of the lessons to take away here is that nature doesn’t always have the best solution to things. Mimicking nature can teach us a lot of novel ways to do things but it doesn’t aways have all the answers.

Cool. I don’t know all the details and feel completely unable to argue these points. Have it so.

Yeah, Java in browsers still pretty much sucks even though now computers are powerful enough to run it pretty quickly.

I’m not sure, even with the addition of science fiction writers, we’re always going to be blindsided by something. As James Burke showed me, even with understanding the history, science and technology are among the more unpredictable, nonlinear things we can do—serendipity and black swans are just the start of it.

I’d agree with those labels too.

“You dare agree with me?! Prepare to meet your horrible doom!”