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Fumesucker

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22. I wrongly attributed TLQ to Clarke in the OP and then edited when it was pointed out to me..

Reply to Kelvin Mace (Reply #21)

Wed Feb 25, 2015, 07:10 PM

Feb 2015

Very familiar with the story..

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Godhood.. [View all] Fumesucker Feb 2015 OP

"The Last Question" was an Asimov story Kelvin Mace Feb 2015 #1

Oops.. You're right.. Brain fart.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #2

wiki says: Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #3

See post #2 Fumesucker Feb 2015 #5

Not my thought at all Kelvin Mace Feb 2015 #21

I wrongly attributed TLQ to Clarke in the OP and then edited when it was pointed out to me.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #22

The word "sufficiently" is key here. trotsky Feb 2015 #4

I hear they have toasters now bvf Feb 2015 #6

To Bronze age goat herders iron chariots were sufficiently advanced Lordquinton Feb 2015 #15

This of course raises the question skepticscott Feb 2015 #20

Sci-Fi was full of characters with "god-like" powers Kelvin Mace Feb 2015 #32

And don't forget Q! trotsky Feb 2015 #38

In Childhood's End some idiot tried to fire a nuke at the alien guardians, and promptly disappeared. leveymg Feb 2015 #7

I think Clarke's law is no longer valid edhopper Feb 2015 #8

You vastly overestimate the intelligence Kelvin Mace Feb 2015 #33

As I said edhopper Feb 2015 #34

I think this feeds into an evolutionary defense mechanism; our predisposition to faith. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #9

Another thing we homo sapiens do is... AlbertCat Feb 2015 #30

One of the reasons I have never fully rejected the belief in god and cbayer Feb 2015 #10

I think I've mentioned before that I'm an agnostic who is also an atheist Fumesucker Feb 2015 #11

I was not clear. I do not think something has evolved further from us. cbayer Feb 2015 #12

What do you mean by "further"? Fumesucker Feb 2015 #13

You and your null statements. cbayer Feb 2015 #14

It's only technology that puts us at the top of the food chain.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #16

But that technology is due to some very highly evolved intelligence. cbayer Feb 2015 #17

Only if their environment is far more harsh than our own.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #18

Harsh? How about just different? cbayer Feb 2015 #19

You have no idea what I think may be possible in terms of life.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #23

I am only responding to what you wrote. cbayer Feb 2015 #24

He wrote quite a bit of stuff that's not in that subgenre, I don't read fantasy either any more Fumesucker Feb 2015 #25

I read the beginning of it, but it didn't grab me. cbayer Feb 2015 #26

I'm kind of limited to what I can find online for free and at the library.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #27

I see that Childhood's End is in a downloadable format. cbayer Feb 2015 #28

Neither may be your cup of Earl Grey Fumesucker Feb 2015 #29

Of course... AlbertCat Feb 2015 #31

shhh, don't spoil the fun. Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #37

Sure is entertaining, isn't it? Act_of_Reparation Feb 2015 #43

And I did not say they were. There are other ways to think of cbayer Feb 2015 #39

It's beyond you AlbertCat Feb 2015 #40

I was only repeating what you said to make a point. cbayer Feb 2015 #41

You mean magic? Iggo Feb 2015 #35

Show someone from a thousand years ago the Tsar Bomba Fumesucker Feb 2015 #36

Don't you think edhopper Feb 2015 #42

How about a technology that can make a star go nova? Fumesucker Feb 2015 #45

That would be very advanced technology edhopper Feb 2015 #46

You don't have to go back 1000 years for that. stone space Feb 2015 #44