Please note that this is not supposed to be a debate on the ethical or moral questions surrounding AI (personally, I subscribe to the Azimov model as being preferred), but more a question as to what AI actually is. So yes - what do you guys think Artifical Intelligence actually is - or what the term...
So, the nature of player characters in sci-fi games is sometimes a little...interesting...In Eve Online, for example, PCs are not technically human - they're brain-scan copies of real people who have been uploaded into cloned bodies. When your pod gets breached, the brain is immediately scanned just...
Watched the first season on netflix myself, and then introduced my dad to it as well. We both agree that its good, hard science fiction, although the storyline is a little convoluted in the early episodes. Will have to look for the books now. Although from the synopses I've read, it kinda goes off t...
I gotta stop listening to my gut - in retrospect, its probably been running on the same ration of protein for the last six months, and is probably wrong in most respects. ...and that is why you don' t try to think about what your food synthesizers are doing whilst on long-haul trips like this... One...
http://i.imgur.com/0ZcMtHu.png So, current location: Blooe Ploe CL-Y G4 ABC 1, somewhere on the nothern hemisphere. Current action: trying to determine if this O-class star I'm looking at is so bright that its in the Ultra-Violet range of the light band. Current musing - I'm nearly 50,000 LY from S...
Currently somewhere up the Sagittarius Arm, about 25k LY from Beagle Point. with my current distance from start as being 48,840 Ly. Total travel distance of 312k Ly.
And I'm still considering if I should do a complete circumnavigation...