Million Post Challenge - Science Fiction

[GR8 2B]

I've been a Michael Crichton fan for a long time. He wrote a book some time ago, the title of which I forget, in which nanorobots acted in swarms to accomplish a singular purpose. I couldn't believe it when, last week, I read an article describing a recent experiment in which that actually occurred.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Now, you're gonna tell me that Tachyons don't exist. Ruin my day. And that stupid cat...is it dead or not?

You have to look in the box.

 

[ChiefGator]

Asimov and his robots (and the associated laws) are one of my favorites. You can get stories with things to solve or a galaxy wide view of the future.

Robot series (Asimov) - Wikipedia

 

[Swampy!]

Dan Simmons' Hyperion series (Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and Rise of Endymion) is the most unbelievably great Science Fiction I have ever read.

 

[T REX]

Asimov and his robots (and the associated laws) are one of my favorites. You can get stories with things to solve or a galaxy wide view of the future.

Robot series (Asimov) - Wikipedia

The Last Question is my favorite Asimov story...read it...it's short and awesome. Read it in full below.

https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

 

[T REX]

You have to look in the box.

Can we talk about Moore's Law or the Tech Singularity? Or the Drake equation or Fermi's Paradox?

Something fun.

 

[ChiefGator]

The Last Question is my favorite Asimov story...read it...it's short and awesome. Read it in full below.

https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

I really enjoyed it when he forced humanity into the stars by essentially making the Earth uninhabitable, closing the loop on several books.

Great post.

 

[T REX]

I really enjoyed it when he forced humanity into the stars by essentially making the Earth uninhabitable, closing the loop on several books.

Great post.

Thanks. Anyone on here that hasn't read it should give it a shot.

 

[Pablos Tunnel]

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Can we talk about Moore's Law or the Tech Singularity? Or the Drake equation or Fermi's Paradox?

Something fun.

Ive expounded on Moore’s Law in depth on these very pages. Drake’s mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries. Fermi was a God. And singularity is a construct for old ladies and small children to contemplate.
This IS fun.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Speaking of Fermi the uniqueness of life on this planet is vastly underrated by the pop science-ists.

Speaking of good sci-fi the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov was one of my first and maybe favorite.

 

[Gator515151]

My favorite Twilight Zone episode.

 

[ChiefGator]

Yes the Twilight zone was one of the most creative series ever.

 

[Gator515151]

Yeah Andy Devine was a teller of tall tales but the aliens didn't understand the concept of lying so every tale he had ever told was true to them making him the perfect specimen to take home and study. After defeating the aliens with his trusty harmonica when he got home nobody would believe him.

 

[ChiefGator]

I remember a concept where SF books here in our reality were actually the reality in some other universe, and the reverse as well.

Cities in Flight is another favorite of mine. I used to think one of my favorite quotes came from there but eventually I could not find it.

"Violence is the first resort of the incompetent"

Cities in Flight - Wikipedia