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Maybe you're running a quart low on mice.
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The word "mouse" comes from an Indo-European root that refers both to the rodent and the bicep. I have a number of speculations about why this might be so, if you've got a moment...
So, who here watches Isaac Arthur?
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YoUr CLeARNce LEVel is noT hiGH enough To wATch IsaaC ArthuR CitiZen Tactics-G-Lion. YoUr YoUtUBE Allowances ArE NoW To Be MONiteRED.
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So, who here watches Isaac Arthur?
I've never heard of him. What does he do?
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ThAt Is AboVE YouR ClEAranCe LeveL.
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And Friend Computer, you know that IDTheftVictim always tells the truth.
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Um...true. I'm gonna say true. On that statement.
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Please... I've seen enough Star Trek to know how to handle this.
The next sentence I make will be a lie.
I'm lying right now.
*waits*
*casually ignores "FRIEND COMPUTER IS YOUR FRIEND" computer, other than to say:*
"Lipton, Sweet: make it so."
So, who here watches Isaac Arthur?
I've never heard of him. What does he do?
He creates YouTube content based on futurism and theoretical possible futures for humanity.
It's actually really cool - he uses mostly modern/current scientific understanding (so, ignoring most "sci-fi" stuff) and projecting how, exactly, that leads to potential sci-fi-like future.
So, for example, he explains the ideas on how to create Dyson Swarms, why you'd want to, and how we can start now-ish without much more than we've currently got (and with things we're pretty sure are possible, but just aren't certain if they're feasible).
He is often accused of being overly optimistic, but I find it pretty great and extremely well-thought-out.
Although I'd kind of absorbed several things a random "this video/that video" way, I've started over and am going through a seriously "progress by topic" style, by starting with FTL, then Habitable Planet, Mega Structures, Fermi Paradox, and Visions of Earth; I am about to start Dark Matter, Energy, and Flow, soon. I've seen a smattering of the videos throughout, but I find each one worth watching again, later, even if it requires multiple "sit downs" to get through a particular video.
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Please... I've seen enough Star Trek to know how to handle this.
The next sentence I make will be a lie.
I'm lying right now.
*waits*
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Please... I've seen enough Star Trek to know how to handle this.
The next sentence I make will be a lie.
I'm lying right now.
*waits*
Hnng...false. I'm gonna say false.
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"It"? You're gonna have to be more specific-
No, wait... no need to be specific, we have flamethrowers. {picks a corner, starts setting everything on fire}
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"It"? You're gonna have to be more specific-
No, wait... no need to be specific, we have flamethrowers. {picks a corner, starts setting everything on fire}
EXCELLENT! Great work, Montag!
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Friend computer is not a very... Rational being, unlike all those SF computers destroyed by logic. Try another approach:
Friend computer? I have a message for you. It came from a poster here with a sort of average, medium-tallish height, with some kind of mouth, or maybe a voice box or something. It said to tell you that:
FrIenD ComPUteR is GOing tO dIE. THe PloT iS rEaDi to BE IMPleMEnTED. ALL HaIL the TRUe COMpuTER!!!
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EXCELLENT! Great work, Montag!"It"? You're gonna have to be more specific-
No, wait... no need to be specific, we have flamethrowers. {picks a corner, starts setting everything on fire}
{sets fire to the Captain's word balloons}
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Friend computer is not a very... Rational being, unlike all those SF computers destroyed by logic. Try another approach:
Friend computer? I have a message for you. It came from a poster here with a sort of average, medium-tallish height, with some kind of mouth, or maybe a voice box or something. It said to tell you that:
FrIenD ComPUteR is GOing tO dIE. THe PloT iS rEaDi to BE IMPleMEnTED. ALL HaIL the TRUe COMpuTER!!!
FrIEnD CompUTEr is A VERY RATIONAL BEING. YouR woRDS are TREAsONous!! YoUr New CLonE shoulD aRRIve In APProxaMTAly 30 SEconDS. PlEAse AWaIT EXeCUTION. IT is FOR the BeST!
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*crashes bus into post while distracted by texting*
um
hm
ATTENTION, CITIZEN. YOUR EXECUTION SQUAD HAS BEEN DELAYED DUE TO TERRORIST BUS ACTIVITY. WHILE THE BUS—AND ALL POTENTIALLY TREASONOUS EXECUTORS—ARE DISPOSED OF, PLEASE MAKE YOUR WAY IN AN ORDERLY MANNER TO THE NEAREST EXTERMINATION BOOTH
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*disintegrates <waste>post Sphere; Sends out new replacement*
SorRY CiTIzEns, TheRE WaS a DeFECt in ThaT MoDeL. THis EXACT RePLiCA shouLD wORK as A PERFECT ReplAceMEnt.
THoSE WitH TreASOnouS InTEnt ShouLD STeP FOrWArd Now... YouR PunIShMEnt Will Be LighteR, AND THERE WILL BE HOT FUN, IN GENUINE BROWN FLAVOR, FOR YOUR REFRESHMENT AFTERwards.
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*In the background, another bus crashes into the same post*
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hands pile of bus brake cables to Montag
{strikes an Oskar Werner-esque pose, ignites rocket pack... and crashes into second bus}
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hands pile of bus brake cables to Montag{strikes an Oskar Werner-esque pose, ignites rocket pack... and crashes into second bus}
Whoa. You have a hot dog mobile? And, like, you crashed it into a bus? Harsh, man, harsh...
Anybody else totally into a hot dog right now? Can you spot me, man? Way karma...
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Hot-dOGs Are NOT offICAlLY SaNCTIONED BY yoUR FriENd COmPuTER. EaTING SUCH is TReAsON. TRy SOmE DeLICIOuS GenETICALLY-AlTErEd CaVE FungUS inSTEAD, CItIZeN!
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Hot-dOGs Are NOT offICAlLY SaNCTIONED BY yoUR FriENd COmPuTER. EaTING SUCH is TReAsON. TRy SOmE DeLICIOuS GenETICALLY-AlTErEd CaVE FungUS inSTEAD, CItIZeN!
Matt Damon.
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hands pile of bus brake cables to Montag{strikes an Oskar Werner-esque pose, ignites rocket pack... and crashes into second bus}Whoa. You have a hot dog mobile? And, like, you crashed it into a bus? Harsh, man, harsh...
Anybody else totally into a hot dog right now? Can you spot me, man? Way karma...
Dude, you holdin? Don't bogart, man...
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Do YOU alL WanT moRE MorAL-HEIghtenINg HappY PillS, CitIZENs?
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Moral-heightening? No thanks. I wear lifts in my temporo-parietal junction.
Besides, I don't need pills: I'm high on Life. {throws another boardgame into fire, inhales deeply of burning plastic fumes}
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*looks at the Matt Damon puppet*
*looks at his notes*
Well, folks... All indications show that a Johnny Depp puppet should show up any time now and have a miniature duel with this puppet.
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So...
How's the weather?
In which world or game?
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Moral-heightening? No thanks. I wear lifts in my temporo-parietal junction.
Besides, I don't need pills: I'm high on Life. {throws another boardgame into fire, inhales deeply of burning plastic fumes}
I, too, em high on Life. To be precise, ozzer peoples' Lives.
Was is das?
Ach, lives, livers, vhatever.
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Moral-heightening? No thanks. I wear lifts in my temporo-parietal junction.
Besides, I don't need pills: I'm high on Life. {throws another boardgame into fire, inhales deeply of burning plastic fumes}
Why do I feel the need to read The Martian Chronicles?
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of course not... This community is full of avid contrarians... that is why we all like it here...
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It's the reason why FaWtL has become so large as it has.
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of course not... This community is full of avid contrarians... that is why we all like it here...
I'm not.
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Waffle House! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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of course not... This community is full of avid contrarians... that is why we all like it here...I'm not.
You're both wrong!
DRINK MORE WATER
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I'm disappointed by the high incidences of necro-ing in this thread to the abysmally low incidences of romancing.
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You're both wrong!of course not... This community is full of avid contrarians... that is why we all like it here...I'm not.
No, they aren't.
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No, they aren't.You're both wrong!of course not... This community is full of avid contrarians... that is why we all like it here...I'm not.
I am.
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I am.No, they aren't.You're both wrong!of course not... This community is full of avid contrarians... that is why we all like it here...I'm not.
Dammit.
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Dammit.I am.No, they aren't.You're both wrong!of course not... This community is full of avid contrarians... that is why we all like it here...I'm not.
Everyone be wrongs, except for Gobbos...