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Locker Room Zubaz posted:Just want to pop in and say culture is the best agreed. the only one i thought was kind of weird when i read them all a year ago was the hydrogen sonata because it spoils that the gzilt religion was a pranke by the zihdren like a third of the way through, so what's the point of finding that one guy so he can confirm it?
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i remember once i told my friend to watch sex house, a few hours later he messaged me back saying 'thanks, now i'm depressed'
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Feb 10, 2014 04:43
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so does greg egan just write the same novel over and over
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Feb 14, 2014 08:13
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quote:The central premise is that in 2001, humanity receives greetings from a highly advanced, peaceable Galactic Federation. However, all is not well, for a species of aggressive aliens known as the Posleen are attacking the Galactics. Since the Galactics are almost entirely unable to fight, they are appealing to the proven military abilities of humanity for aid. pfhghghghg oh john ringo computer parts posted:sort of sci-fi question: is there any actual evidence of dark matter/energy outside of a need to balance equations or is it looking likely that it's this century's version of the aether http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to_dark_matter but it's still not a slam dunk
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Feb 20, 2014 03:55
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MANIFEST DESTINY posted:With so much interstellar space, is it really crazy to think that all the non-luminous matter in between would account for the difference? that's one of the theories but it has some pretty big problems
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Feb 20, 2014 05:26
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amazing also ugh thanks for reminding me the scp foundation exists
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Feb 20, 2014 21:01
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i thought you were replying to yourself for a second there
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Feb 20, 2014 21:41
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Feb 22, 2014 06:37
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against a dark background has some amazing worldbuilding
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Feb 24, 2014 14:22
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angry_keebler posted:you gotta open up the pod to get at them and opening the pod defrosts them and they pop up and start doing tough poses don't post my star trek/jjba crossover ideas
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Feb 27, 2014 18:29
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raruler posted:what limits do you think are imposed on them, can you just decide to terraform a moon into a replica of your head and you'd get a team of culture construction drones to do it? the trick is that the construction drones are going to be sentient so you'd have to convince them to go along with your plan also yeah i'd much rather live in the Culture than in this vale of tears because let's be real if i'm going to have shadowy forces beyond my control dictating the course of the civilization i live in i'd rather they at least be hyperintelligent shadowy forces beyond my control e: in Surface Detail Veppers asks the ambassador how much it'd cost to buy a Culture ship and she just laughs at him vOv fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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Feb 28, 2014 00:29
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ol qwerty bastard posted:that was one of my favourite things. literally just the author saying lol @ capitalism yeah he tries to buy a gfcf warship and the representative goes 'ok first off we're not selling you one of our best warships, second it'd cost more than your entire civilization's gdp' veppers is basically perfectly designed to make you want to punch him in the face over and over
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Feb 28, 2014 02:33
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Heresiarch posted:any hyperintelligent entity is going to understand far better than any human being just how futile and meaningless their existence is in the grand scheme of the cosmos there's something kinda along these lines in a greg egan short story
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Mar 1, 2014 09:14
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:i'm gritting my teeth and drat i'm going to finish this shitshow, but holy gently caress thor the dark world is god loving awful 
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Mar 4, 2014 06:13
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:i think firefly is the best scifi series only because it has no time travel someone pointed out to me once that even though firefly has a ton of chinese influence it has basically no asian characters
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Mar 4, 2014 23:29
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Sham bam bamina! posted:l@@k at this fuckin noob with his shift key except you need a shift key to make the at symbol. it looks like the noob here... is u
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Mar 5, 2014 22:25
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raruler posted:and/or do Homeworld in the style of Battlestar Galactica and don't gently caress up the ending karan s'jet t&a shot e: turrets and aft vOv fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Mar 5, 2014 |
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Mar 5, 2014 22:47
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ol qwerty bastard posted:i really wish that we had some movie/tv versions of culture stories but i do realize how unfilmable they are that was a cool movie
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Mar 8, 2014 00:40
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Cocoa Crispies posted:just finished against a dark background again hell yeah
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Mar 9, 2014 02:09
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Sham bam bamina! posted:wrong, you used that word wrong die prescriptivist scum
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Mar 9, 2014 22:38
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Stymie posted:yep wait bill nye is a ratheist?
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Mar 9, 2014 22:50
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:Really glad Neil degrasse Tyson is official ambassador of science instead of either of the brians or dick Dawkins or muchio talku kaku is so terrible quote:By midcentury, we may have Brain 2.0, a backup copy of the brain, the byproduct of the ambitious BRAIN project of Pres. Obama and the European Union. Hence, when we die, our Connectome and Genome still survive. So our consciousness does not have to die when we die. And this consciousness, I write, may be placed on laser beams and sent into outer space. This might be the most efficient way to explore the universe, as laser beams carrying our consciousness into outer space.
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Mar 9, 2014 23:14
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:i heard that on science friday and almost crashed my car from laughing so hard literally the plot of a greg egan novel
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Mar 9, 2014 23:21
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Trig Discipline posted:nah they called him Kneel DeGrasp MyJohnson Kneel DeGrasp MyJohnson and Carl Banging
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Mar 10, 2014 06:24
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:then how did the bugs bomb us smart guy inside job
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Mar 11, 2014 17:31
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that reminds me, i rerereread Player of Games the other day and the finale is so good
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Mar 12, 2014 06:36
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Gus Hobbleton posted:at least worosei got revenge so quilan could join her if you're talking about the epilogue then i think it's just the culture sending an assassin at the people that tried to blow the orbital up. i know quilan definitely didn't go to heaven, he completely obliterated himself along with the mind; worosei was also completely obliterated in the attack vOv fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Mar 15, 2014 |
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Mar 15, 2014 03:41
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at least i think thats what happened
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Mar 15, 2014 07:39
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how do they lose in hydrogen sonata
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Mar 16, 2014 05:49
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Mar 17, 2014 19:16
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AlsoD posted:clearly since 1k+ year sentences are going to happen, we should start using their brain for computing power in the manner of prison labour currently I understood this reference.
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Mar 19, 2014 02:29
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now let us read from the Book of Hox
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Mar 22, 2014 06:38
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when I read a fire upon the deep i didn't realize the last half of the ebook was just authors draft footnotes so the ending caught me really off-guard
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Mar 22, 2014 14:42
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yeah 'the lego movie is an enjoyable movie' and 'the lego movie is a good example of modern self-effacing corporate marketing' aren't mutually exclusive
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Mar 24, 2014 18:08
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Heresiarch posted:i was unnecessarily snarky because i hadn't had lunch yet i too know this feeling
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Mar 24, 2014 18:34
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More recent calculations by Bobylev in 2010 suggest Gliese 710 has an 86% chance of passing through the Oort butt, considering the Oort butt to be a spheroid around the Sun with semiminor and semimajor axes of 80,000 and 100,000 astronomical units.
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Mar 24, 2014 21:55
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syscall girl posted:we've identified substance d irl *points to dilznick*
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Mar 24, 2014 23:22
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assuming it was red bull then that's about 1.2g of caffeine over 16 hours. an adult would be jittery as hell but fine, but i dunno about a 14-year-old
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Mar 26, 2014 02:28
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gently caress this cyborg earth
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Mar 26, 2014 04:00
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speaking of peter f hamilton, i never understood why people like him so much
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