I have been ranting and raving about this ever since the idea of the Cloud Ark was announced. So far all I get in return, from the powers that be, are vague answers and hand-wavy happy talk.
I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and I’d rather be miserable than stupid. I am...
I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there.There might as well be, Arsibalt said, but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that...
Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between t...
His baseline attitude toward humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was prob...
Hey, Hiro, the black-and-white guy says, you want to try some Snow Crash?A lot of people hang around in front of The Black Sun saying weird things. Youignore them. But this gets Hiro's attention.Oddit...
He was tempted to add something like I am allowed to coin terms but didn’t want things to get snarky this early in the meeting.
He overrides the warning buzzer, jams the stereo over to Taxiscan, which cruises all the taxi-driver frequencies listening for interesting traffic. Can't understand a fucking word. You could buy tapes...
He looked behind him at the unadorned outer walls of the Septizodium. He stood in an alley, one of the many unmarked and unmemorable gaps between buildings in Rome. The door through which he had stumb...
Felt-tip markers, always a scarce resource even on Earth, became objects of great value as people used them to mark directions on the walls of hamster tubes and habitat modules.
Even the word ‘science' comes from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to cut' or ‘to separate.' The same root led to the word ‘shit,' which of course means to separate living flesh from nonliving waste. T...
DMS is energetic and enterprising to a degree that from time to time leaves certain persons (e.g. those burdened with a petty fear of death or torture) uneasy (see my prior speculation as to possibili...
Commemorating the Holocaust is not, not not not not not, the same thing as fighting to prevent future holocausts. Most of the commemorationists are just whiners. They think that if everyone feels bad...
But thoughts of this sort were chased away by others. One of those moments had arrived: Jack had been presented with the opportunity to be stupid in some way that was much more interesting than being...
Being right does not always bring satisfaction,
At any rate the total number of persons at the table was not enormously larger than the number of categories, meaning that nearly everyone present was reacting in an altogether different way, and in m...
As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.
All philosophies are eithermonist or dualist. Monists believe that the material world is the only world --hence, materialists. Dualists believe in a binary universe, that there is aspiritual world in...
Aister interprets the myth as 'an exposition of a logical problem: Supposingthat originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binarysexual relations come into being?'Ah, there's th...
With the perky vigor of a man who had sat through one too many free webinars about the importance of networking.