Fuck you !!!

Shrike

Shrike

Flower Potted, Maxed, & Rio'd.
Bester & Smith...definitely.

And Tweek...Clifford Simak...wow...almost forgot him. He was one of my favorites growing up.:tup:

Well FUCK...aren't we turning into the Weekly Book Club!

Fuck everyone on here that likes the same great literature that I do.

A very warm...FUCK YOU!:):rockon::wave:
 
Stu

Stu

Maconheiro
Staff member
lwien said:
Never read him, Tweek, but if I had to place a bet, I don't think man versus machine is the scenario. What I do believe though is that man and machine will become one in our search for immortality. We are already on that path.
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My greatest fear is that humanity is just a speed bump in the evolution of life.

:peace:

Edit: Fuck evolution. (to keep thread relevance intact)
 
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Abysmal Vapor

Abysmal Vapor

Supersniffer 2000 - robot fart detection device
"Inspector Drayton sat, solidly planted behind the desk, and waited. He was a rawboned man with a face that looked as if it might have been hacked, by a dull hatchet, out of a block of gnarled wood. His eyes were points of flint and at times they seemed to glitter, and he was angry and upset. But such a man, Peter Maxwell knew, would never give way to any kind of anger. There was, behind that anger, a bulldog quality that would go plodding on, undisturbed by anger." :)
 
Havelock Vetenari

Havelock Vetenari

Patrician
Fuck you all for forgetting Diamond Dogs by Alastair Reynolds,quite a good read and i found somewhat disturbing,because i do see us(or at least some) going that way if we make it that far even without being prompted by an alien artefact...

Fuck my Nikon D-90 for finally completely giving up the ghost...:(
 
Havelock Vetenari

Havelock Vetenari

Patrician
Edit button was gone,so new post i'm afraid.
Had some time to reflect and i do miss some fucking good SF-writers still.
To name a few(sorry if i did mention someone who had already been mentioned,given the topic though...fuck it! :p) :
Larry Niven(/Jerry Pournelle),Fritz Leiber,Neil Gaiman,Tanith Lee,Stanisław Lem,Jules Verne,Arthur Conan Doyle,Aldous Huxley.

Best short SF-story i ever read(can't find it anywhere...fuck me...!) was basically a 1(and a bit) page story,which had aliens coming who could help us with free,clean energy,fix the pollution etc. and just before turning this one page also told all caucasians to relax and not too worry,because...



"We have the cure!"
:lol:
 
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Stu

Stu

Maconheiro
Staff member
lwien said:
I don't know, man. Humanity is not all it's cracked up to be. While there are glimpses of greatness, there is such a overabundance of "wrongdoing", that one has to wonder if humanity deserves to survive.
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I agree with you there. Humans probably won't be too terribly missed. We had a good run, though didn't we? Those pyramids are pretty sweet. Of course they were built by slave labor for a king. :disgust:

Yeah.... fuck us.

:peace:
 
Shrike

Shrike

Flower Potted, Maxed, & Rio'd.
And if you were a special slave during that time you got the "privilege" of being buried alive with your former ruler when he died. After all...a pharaoh needs his "help" in the afterlife.

Wasn't life just spiffy back then? :whip:
 
Snappo

Snappo

Caveat Emptor - "A Billion People Can Be Wrong!"
Accessory Maker
Sushi anyone...?
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T

Tweek

Well-Known Member

lwien said:
I don't know, man. Humanity is not all it's cracked up to be. While there are glimpses of greatness, there is such a overabundance of "wrongdoing", that one has to wonder if humanity deserves to survive.
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Just saw a news report about a murder that happened here 3 years ago...young guy was walking home at 3am after celebrating his sisters birthday. A gang of guys jump out of their SUV, beat him severely and then run him over, killing him. Police revealed some footage in hopes of catching these cowards, and they theorize the victim went to try and hail a cab, and accidentally hit their SUV with his hand, and that was what motivated them to pull over and attack him.

That's the kind of shit that makes me question the human race...killing a dude just because he accidentally touched your car? WTF? :disgust:
 
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grokit

grokit

well-worn member
Snappo said:
There will come a time...
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And that time looks to be early 2014:

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“This is absurd,” [Rob] thought. “Why am I working on wireless networks? People don’t need better wireless networks. People need better food.” Food, he already knew, wasn’t only a problem for the hungry and the sick.



We’re not just too busy to cook and clean up. In Rhinehart’s view, the act of eating is a task that technology can make more efficient—or eliminate entirely. It also reflects fears about scarce resources: the worry that we may not have enough food, or the infrastructure to distribute it, to feed Earth’s growing population reliably.


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