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Asimov's Foundation trilogy, the precursor to the series, is so good that it took the Hugo for best trilogy of all time, despite the date, in recognition that the best anything following could do would be to equal, but never surpass, it.
 
EarlyMon said:
Asimov's Foundation trilogy, the precursor to the series, is so good that it took the Hugo for best trilogy of all time, despite the date, in recognition that the best anything following could do would be to equal, but never surpass, it.
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I've actually read a crapload of Asimov stuff, but never that Trilogy. I've read just about all his sci-fi novels, virtually all his robots stuff that I could get my greasy little hands on, most of his mysteries (sci-fi and otherwise) and even a few of his non-fiction books. I've also read nearly all of his short stories. Some of his short stories he later expanded into novels and I've read both versions of the same story. I tried reading Foundation as a child and could not get into the first book at all.
 
Descartes - "Cogito ergo sum" although think today is a different term. Can you think if you don't think for yourself or "outside the box?"
Z
 
Je pense donc je suis. Proves only the mind exists (the single mind thinking it) - way to go, Descartes, alert the media. A touted philosophy we were required to read, about as sharp as Aristotle - in other words, I'm not having any.

So.

If we do make contact via SETI, I hope it's a race of AI-sentient robots so old they've forgotten their biological predecessors and cannot be convinced that life requires a biological component.

I'm just imagining the fun controversy that would create here at home - how would we convince them of something we never proved in the first place?

Which reminds me - here's another classic short from the early 80s -

They're made out of Meat, by Hugo and Nebula Winner Terry Bisson

Gotta love sci-fi.
 
zuben el genub said:
Sirius and Venus can cause illusions due to atmospheric murk when they rise. People tend to see all kinds of flashing lights. There is also a lady in the moon. And my rabbit is heavenly, but not on the moon. It's called Lepus and the home of Hind's Crimson star and M79.

I think they have found the building blocks of life on meteors, etc, but it's like legos.
You can dump all the legos required to build a certain item, but left to the lego's own devices, that item won't get built. So far all the building blocks haven't come together to show creation of life elsewhere.
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Just give them enough time, and they will self-assemble.
 
EarlyMon said:
If we do make contact via SETI, I hope it's a race of AI-sentient robots so old they've forgotten their biological predecessors and cannot be convinced that life requires a biological component.
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I am hoping for frisky blonds, eager to mingle after a long space flight in restrictive and uncomfortable space suits. I mean, Captain Kirk always did well.

Did you see the documentary on PBS? Some sort of a Guide for hitchhikers traveling the galaxy. I learned that mice are actually in charge. Just a theory, however.

Bob
 
Outlaw71 said:
Is this here some sorta catch 22 or sumthn?
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"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Do ghosts debate the existence of living beings?
 
Or the jokingly purported alien book - "How to Serve Man" - and finding out it's a cookbook.

I'd like to meet Zenna Henderson's "The people"

Going back to Asimov - "Nightfall" - If it was possible to have a civilization in a globular cluster - how would the technology to detect radio waves, etc -be different? Would they be able to detect all frequencies with all the emissions from the stars themselves?
 
Bob Maxey said:
I am hoping for frisky blonds, eager to mingle after a long space flight in restrictive and uncomfortable space suits. I mean, Captain Kirk always did well.

Did you see the documentary on PBS? Some sort of a Guide for hitchhikers traveling the galaxy. I learned that mice are actually in charge. Just a theory, however.

Bob
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Mice are in charge... and never leave home without your towel! Douglas Adams was a genius!! :p
 
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