showlife

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   by showlife 5d ago

   i hate that $5 wrench meme. Randall Monroe of xkcd is ordinarily such a smart guy but he really didn't do his research with his $5 wrench attack idea. Torturers don't hit people in the head with something hard. Not the ones who
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   by showlife 5d ago

   "boys will be boys" "toys will be toys"
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   by showlife 17d ago

   Have you (the commenter) or all of you (the readers of this comment) ever read "The Mote In God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle? Remember when they realize that the Watchmakers were actually in control of the MacAr
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   by showlife 2y ago

   Reminds me of the plot of "Exit Earth" by Martin Caidin where humanity has to evacuate the planet in an ark to survive passage through an interstellar dust cloud. Martin Caidin is known more for "Cyborg", the book that
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   by showlife 3y ago

   Maybe what you're looking for is a "geon"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon_(physics)