It was loosely based on Brave New World. Although in BNW everyone was fucking all the time and on drugs. Also no one was frozen and there were much fewer gun fights.

You could also have a constellation of satellites with area greater than the surface of the earth. It’s not that silly of an idea.

I sat next to a cougar on my last flight, and she destroyed my heart.

By “they”, I meant the switches.

But I’m just a brain in a jar and you are a simulation implanted in my consciousness by the switches so it doesn’t really matter.

You’re assuming they don’t control something in the room with the light, or they could control the lights in your room and the light you’re trying to check .

American Catholics are a very diverse group. Some (not many) are young Earth creationists but I was taught evolution in Catholic school. Most are amazingly ignorant of their own religion and just believe whatever they want then do mental gymnastics to make it fit.

The SciFi channel died the day they became the Syfy channel. It may have already been dead by then.

In most languages I’ve seen - is both a unary negation operator and a subtraction operator depending on context. So it would negate an integer literal or a variable in this context.

Data you are supposed to be observing the behavior of 21st century humans, not interacting with them. You are in danger of violating the temporary prime directive. We don’t want another Sarjenka incident.

I got laid off from my software job then took a physical labor job to make ends meet. I got promoted to management and used my software skills to automate most of my job. This is my recommended career path.

I’d be more impressed if I saw the breeder reactor or the centrifuges she would have had to build to get enough weapons grade material.

Yeah, you can just reprint satirical articles a week later and they are factual.

So do you react the same way to sci fi or fantasy movies? I mean nobody uses magic or flies faster than light in real life. I’ve always been puzzled by this point of view because I don’t get why this is where the line is drawn.

The lab quality bit is optional.

Fuck, just fuck time.

They want money and losing half their audience would cost them money.

This looks like bad human art not bad AI art, but I may be wrong

https://youtu.be/xq0XNILIYTw?si=q7ptO3AWuEjAtaWh

You mean one of the puppets from the Neverending story?

That is realistic though, he just needs to move the magnetic field to induce a current in them. He should be able to affect any conductor.