TheVat
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Does anyone have any idea what causes the words on my computer to be distorted and smeared across the screen?
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Watching Resident Alien on TV, hilarious show!
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I noticed NF had picked it up this week. I had a trial sub to whichever streaming service had it about a year ago, watched the first season and loved it. So am looking forward to catching S.2. Have been a Tudyk fan since he accidentally ingested hallucinogens in Death at a Funeral, and I discovered Firefly. He is a great comedic talent. As is most of the cast of RA.
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If you really enjoy the organism experience, then they remove the letters "ni" so you can really celebrate.
I was happy to be promoted to Primate a while back, as it worked with my avatar so well.
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I remember hearing about a Scifi book that portrays aliens from another plane of existence where cephalopods are top dogs and we interact in some way with technological cephalopods. Anyone know what book this was?
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I remember hearing about a Scifi book that portrays aliens from another plane of existence where cephalopods are top dogs and we interact in some way with technological cephalopods. Anyone know what book this was?
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https://www.amazon.com/Forge-Elders-L-Neil-Smith/dp/0671578596
Seems to have a Libertarian perspective.
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I remember hearing about a Scifi book that portrays aliens from another plane of existence where cephalopods are top dogs and we interact in some way with technological cephalopods. Anyone know what book this was?
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Made me think of a Stephen Baxter story, but that was a squid called Sheena, and she was terrestrial. Can't think where or when I heard about the ET cephalopods, but it sounds familiar. Was this a recent novel?
Also reminded of the "heptapods" in Ted Chiang's wonderful short story, The Story of Your Life, which I recently praised in another thread here. That was the basis for the movie, Arrival .
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Is anyone else keeping track of all the whistleblowers who've come out of the woodwork on youtube lately about UFOs? It's beginning to look serious guys... no I will not start another UFO thread... I won't I tell you... you can't make me!
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Is anyone else getting an add before a page opens up?
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Today is the two year anniversary of my wife's passing, funny how the first year passed almost without me noticing the date, but this year it has really messed me up. I miss her so badly, the world is a much worse place without her.
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Today is the two year anniversary of my wife's passing, funny how the first year passed almost without me noticing the date, but this year it has really messed me up. I miss her so badly, the world is a much worse place without her.
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I hope you can take Phis suggestion. I lost someone close a few years ago and was shocked at the resulting void in my world. Losing someone too early can shatter illusions we nurture about a certain reliability and order in our lives, or that there's always enough time. It means a pain that one must live with, but also an awakened condition, too. And your lost partner would be happy for you, having that. And, perhaps, she is - I am not so dogmatic as to be certain as to death or the fundamental nature of consciousness.
There are certain things my partner does that I don't have much use for (such is marriage, for many people), but as I now get old, I sense that I will in some way honor them if she should pass before I do. They are part of the whole beautiful package. What drives me crazy, it turns out, also keeps me sane. Weird, huh?
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I had a personal experience tuesday morning at about 05:00...
I was driving to the Walgreens pharmacy due to an intense sinus headache, planning on buying some Nyquil. I knew I was sick but all of a sudden i became severely nauseous and stopped the jeep to get out and lose my cookies. I woke up lying on the pavement beside a huge puddle of upchuck, i looked up at the sky and saw the beautiful stars but I was too weak to get up.
I was on my back in the middle of the busiest intersection in my city, I slowly got up and scanned my surroundings. I was in the middle of the intersection of two 4 lane streets, strip malls and street lights all around me where shining bright... but no cars, no humans, nothing but neon lights and sodium vapor lights as far as the eye could see!This was one of the oddest experiences I ever had made even more surreal by the total lack of other humans. Suddenly I felt like i was at the start some sort of apocalyptic Science fiction movie. Really strange, As I slowly stood up to climb back in my jeep I thought how great it would be if a cop showed up.
really odd to wake up laying in the city's busiest intersection and see no other humans.
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Good god, man, I hope you are feeling better! Your five a.m. experience would have been different here, given that Rapid City has a lot of very early risers - I think it partly relates to us being on the eastern edge of our time zone, and partly to lying in ranching country where there's a lot of rural people already starting activity at that hour.
It does sound very "The Quiet Earth," the one with the guy waking up in some New Zealand city and there's nobody else.
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Waiting on Ian to arrive. Shouldn't be too bad by the time it reaches us, but going to be interesting.
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Compare and contrast.I first downvoted and then ,very soon removed the downvote of your reply to me because I saw that you had ,at a later stage added to your crpytic response with a second part that ,at least made some sense.
Meanwhile someone had upvoted my Delphic Oracle reply to your cryptic response and so you have seen fit to downvote it .
Petty or what?
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I spend a lot of time watching youtube videos and I've noticed that some of the less reputable sites are using buzz words to try and get you too watch lately "massive" seems to be the word of choice ie
" Scientists have observed something massive near the Sun" or
" Scientists have observed something massive on the Moon" I am just waiting for "Scientists have observed something massive emerging from Uranus"
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I am just now learning about now learning about how the universe formed, like about gold and what not and dudes and dudeets. Its fucking crazy, there are elements in me from a fucking star explosion that occured billions of billions of years ago. I tell ya, if you learn science from the right source it feels like everything just opens up! Like the universe becomes more and more knowable. Before I had to be on medication to see this amount of beauty. This is epic!
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When we have found the planets, gravity will become mystery again. I hop everyone prepare for a huge jump in physics because These planets are weird and opposh physics ;).
(And beautiful as always, the planets)
