Recent content by Noisy Rhysling

So there's never going to be time when technology has been supplanted by a more advanced system?

I made a friend twitch by asking him what the post-technological world would be like. So, wide-open question: What comes after technology for the human race? Sociological implications? Psychological implications? Will we be Markovians? Angels? House plants?

Ordered from Amazon, sold out and back ordered. (Arriving Tuesday.) Good new for Andy, and for us.

The idea that we would hit random planets with those things and destroy the extant ecology for our own purposes without considering if there are living beings there is horrifying. And very human.

There's retro silent movie out now, "The Call of Cthulhu", available on Amazon.

I used to wake up at 4 am every flippin' morning. I've managed to work that down to 5:30 AM.

Reading up on the Humanx Amalgamation right now. Fun stuff.

We find residences nearly that old, Sterkfontein comes to mind immediately. But the technology didn't exist to building structures more complicated than wickiups until we got together to make civilizations. The lunatic fringe will claim otherwise, of course.

Would you consider unicorns possible if you lived on a world where all large mammals have a single horn on their head.

Some folks like to say that their gun is always safe AND ready for immediate use. Oxy for that moron.

That's absolutely horrifying. ;) (I used to live there and that faux pas would cost the engineer his job back then.)

What if you lived in a world where every large four-footed mammal had a single horn on its forehead?

Have we searched every galaxy in the Universe? Are those two criteria the only ones that would provide signs of intelligent life? Does the intelligent life have to be farther along technologically than we are? If they are truly intelligent and out there why would they contact us?

I'm 66.6 years old. Seen the ones I wanted to see already.

Oh, wow, the hydrocodone just kicked in.