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I don't want to derail this thread. I'll jump in and, hopefully, back out. The insight article seems to jump into the middle of an...

AIs were never asked to sign the social contract. They can't know moral/ethical right from wrong unless told.

I see what you mean. But of course, in very low g, the term "under" loses much of its meaning. I think, essentially, it would be more a...

Pleased to see my favourite, Hofstadter's Law, in-the-wild...

John Varley's 'The Black Hole Passes'? Ouch! He is no slouch in the sci-fi world. No wonder it put you off all other sci-fi.

Problem with AI is that the more details you add to a scenario, the more it will forget. You'll get all the way to a plausible...

I'm sure someone else has mentioned it but Earth's Roche limit is about 18,000 km, as is your Venus-size planet's Roche Limit. The...

Not a homework assignment, I'm too old for that.

*Ahem* should have been Careful with your diction in homework assignments.

Ahmed is a character in the story, he is a character operating a JCB where he finds the ark in a opening. he is just a builder who...

Sailor has entered the chat. Welp. There's no prop, so it's not prop walk. 'at's all I got. I'm out.

Some perspective: Water is quite capable of staying solid just as any other molecule or mineral. Cold enough, it can be as hard as...

Where does Ahmed come in? I don't see that account anywhere. Is Ahmed an entirely fictional aspect of the story you're writing?

If the 'Baghdad Battery' was used for electrolytic acceleration of acid-leaching, comparable to the Incas' acidic Andes streams, rather...