"Must have been a stray neutrino." - Electrical Engineer Dave Ficke
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Sturgeon's Law states: "90% of science fiction is crud. 90%
of everything is crud."
I think it should the long-term goal of humanity to bring that down to 85%. |
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Reading a Philip K. Dick novel is like peeling an onion. There are layers upon layers upon layers........ |
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Was The Prisoner surrealistic fantasy, or were we
being shown how society really works?
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Remember "The Voice" in Frank Herbert's Dune? The Bene Gesserit used it to force people to answer questions or do things against their will. I was startled to find that there really is such a thing. I've seen it used. A friend hypothesized that most women, and all mothers have "The Voice", but can only summon it involuntarily during times of extreme stress. |
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The best quote I ever heard about "Ace" on Doctor Who
came from Thorsten Wieking: "You could go out and steal horses with her."
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"Trufen are cadets to become Secret Masters of the Universe. The problem is, they can't move into the Inner Circle til they grow up, and no one has ever known a Trufan to grow up." - Lee Hoffman |
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I am fascinated by the Gaia Theory. In a nutshell, it says that the planet Earth itself is a living entity. If so, how would it reproduce? I think it might reproduce by evolving on its surface an intelligent species which would learn how to leave Earth to go terraform other planets. Voila. Reproduction. |
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"...I am convinced that I have been abducted (by aliens). I have absolutely no memory of anything of the kind. Isn't that proof enough...?" - Lee Hoffman |
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A lot of people are deliberately stupid so that telepaths won't scan them. - Lee Hoffman |
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I just have to find out what the writers of
Red Dwarf were smoking.
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Why are we Science Fiction fans so fat?
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image = Hubble telescope view of Mars