“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
I first started watching STAR WARS seriously as a teenager, and got to be an avid fan of the series, for many years. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, I consumed vast amounts of the Expanded Universe lore – right up until the point where LucasArts released the...
If you have never heard of Loab, it is well worth taking a moment to go lookup “Loab AI”. I first came across the concept of the “daemon AI” in a superb interview between two practising Catholics, Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire (yes, I know,...
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (3.5/5) Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives by Alex Berenson (3.4/5) Remains (Galaxy’s Edge...
My reading definitely collapsed quite badly in the past year as well – I actually spend much more of my time these days reading blog posts, articles, and various alternative news aggregator sites, rather than actual books. I also spent an inordinate amount of...
LRFotS Dire Badger is a chap with whom many of us are familiar. He’s been a regular at both this site and its predecessor, the old Didact’s Reach blog, for many years. Though he rarely comments nowadays, he always has something interesting to say. He wrote...
In this latest Domain Query, I address a rather interesting question from LRFotS Randale6 that touches on the thorny and tricky issue of thinking machines and artificial intelligence, while referencing the greatest sci-fi novel ever written. Here’s the...
I only realised that it is May the 4th while I was in the shower, preparing for the day. In all honesty, I don’t much care for STAR WARS Day anymore, simply because of the egregious and wanton acts of extreme destruction inflicted upon the franchise by the House...
This week’s podcast episode touches on many subjects, ranging from Robert A. Heinlein’s controversial classic military sci-fi novel, STARSHIP TROOPERS, to the Beer Bug, to the nature of rights and responsibilities. I discuss a lot of different points...
The Male Brain sent over this link a few days ago, and it’s just too good not to turn into a full post. It’s all about how scientists can reach two completely different results from the exact same data set: In a test of scientific reproducibility, multiple...
The latest scientific evidence of sunspot activity and the Sun’s thermal output is backing up predictions made several years ago by mathematicians, not climatologists: Because it turns out that even the Sun has gone into a lockdown ‘recession’. Or,...
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