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changed Unidentified Flying Object to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAP,
UAV, which stood for Unidentified Aerial Vehicle.
Jason Ramsey, a bestselling novelist,
work perfectly well in either time direction,” I said. “Forward or backward. It’s also true that if you take two radioactive atoms, absolutely identical in every conceivable way, they will decay randomly. The first might decay immediately, while the second doesn’t do the same for an hour or more. Why the difference? After all, they’re identical. “Scientists have never found any way to explain it or predict when this decay will occur. But there are theories that posit the information that controls the fate of these particles doesn’t come from the past or present.” I raised my eyebrows to build
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they demanded a full report, which was delivered in 2021.
a decade after this UFO report was delivered to Congress,
the “tic-tac” incident.
the Tic-Tac UAV
https://www.history.com/videos/uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo-declassified-video
https://youtu.be/zlrz84nEXtk
Appearance-wise, she was slender in all the right places, and not slender in all the right other places. A breathtakingly beautiful, girl-next-door face, sky-blue eyes to contrast with her deep black hair, and an athletic, regal bearing. And eyes and a face that gave off a dazzling glow from an inner confidence, a brilliant and savvy mind, and an exuberant love of life.
of course. so predictable tessa is. even her name. is this female prototype a male fantasy?
I’d be crazy about her if she was as plain as an unsalted cracker.
of course. i believe it. do you?
Looks were nice in the beginning,
enough already. you convinced me. move on.
Fermi paradox. Namely, if intelligent life can arise without special conditions found only on Earth, then where are all the aliens? In the billions of years the universe has been around, at least one species should have spread throughout the cosmos.
“Sure,” I said sarcastically. “I mean . . . obviously. Everyone knows that only the lamest survive. Which is why Darwin called it, ‘survival of the least fit.’ Or something like that.” The colonel continued to look amused. “You think you’re making a joke,” he said. “But it turns out that on a galactic scale, survival of the least fit is actually the truth.”
Tens of thousands of wolf-like intelligent species have cropped up in our galaxy. But only twenty-two sheep-like species. You quoted Charles Darwin. I’ll quote Jesus Christ. ‘And the meek shall inherit the galaxy.’” I groaned, but was impressed despite myself. Answering one ironic misquote with another was a nice touch.
you. You’re a species who will find a way to claw your way to transcendence, whatever it takes.”
i've always thought that this self-analysis (made by aliens but it is self-analysis) that runs thru scifi basically the same, is faulty. i don't know how but it is. better to be analyzed by aliens for a true view.
social media,” replied Brad. “It’s the most divisive technology the world has ever seen.
We call them the Swarm.”
Isn't this from Dr. Who? Come on now.
A number of scientists thought the universe could be conscious, and I had even read a paper that had investigated similarities between the human brain, with its hundred billion neurons, and the cosmos, with its hundred billion or more galaxies.
head. “The poor Intruders won’t have any idea what hit them. They won’t be prepared for a focused and well-armed humanity, tweaked into a frenzy by the Zetas, who will have convinced us that we’re fighting the ultimate predator, a relentless, uncaring swarm that can’t be reasoned with. The Federation’s tech, combined with our military savvy and savagery, will allow us to win the day.”
and isn't this Ender's Game?
And he loves me for me, not for my appearance.”
oh brother
The idea that the person being possessed had to agree to the possession was eerily similar to certain myths about Satan. In some versions of mythology, the devil could only possess someone who invited him in.
“I forgive you entirely,”
he can forgive because he figured it out first otherwise it would be simply fortuitous; the author planned well
“And as corny as it sounds,” I added, “that’s why love was our secret weapon. Something that became clearer as events unfolded, and I gained more and more insight into the icy, passionless evil that is the Swarm. The Federation AI knew it also, at some level, somewhere within its inscrutable, incomprehensibly dense calculations.”
Thus began an ever-amplifying feedback loop. A self-fulfilling prophecy.
So if all of our actions had been strictly rational, all would have been lost. But you had enough genius to program your AI to give added weight to love, which resulted in the introduction of a confounding variable. One that bollixed the calculations of the hive-mind and its AI alike.”
gravity and acceleration were just two sides of the same coin—the equivalence principle—which
Echidnas, also known as spiny anteaters, are also real, and have quickly become one of my favorite animals after I stumbled upon them during my research. They are nocturnal during the hot months, and are considered the oldest mammal on Earth (which is why they still lay eggs). In short, they are really bizarre, and really cute.
