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what the
don't you have to flip and start slowing down in the middle
as a co-rosenbaum, i must know
what is Jewish meditation
this is Art
Oh god this made me laugh so hard. Watch til the end.
or if they do wipe them out, then you have predators who are hungry
but the space microbes were siphoning off the sun's energy
Flaccid SF
but see note above - there's also the scale of how possible/plausible the science is
Josie just pointed out that at the time Dune was written Herbert didn't know that psychic powers weren't a scientific proposition, which is always interesting
actually now i think about it, there is a double axis here -- there's hard sf as opposed to soft sf, and then there's hard sf as opposed to fantasy. So Dune for example, is hard sf by the first axis but kind of mushy by the second
i hate u
correct. If the science is hard, so is the fiction; if the science is soft, likewise
check out what we found
I'm mostly joking Garlax I know you you're ok
no I'm just discovering that I'm a very old sf fan and everyone in my mentions sounds to me like the stranded tribal children in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
no I'm just discovering that I'm a very old sf fan and everyone in my mentions sounds to me like the stranded tribal children in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
you're just going to skip Jules Verne and H.G. Wells hunh
it's only "hard sci-fi" if it comes from the Littérature Scientifique region of France; otherwise it's just sparkling space fantasy.
I'm not going to argue with you about whether science exists
NOPE
and how would you substantiate that
my heart weeps but also that's the basic definition, yes
sure, Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov
ok, I can accept that
am i in a simulation
"because it was created by humans" AS OPPOSED TO WHAT
