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Category Archives: Science Fiction
Duke Minus
The Midas touch is the story of King Midas and how he got his wish for everything he touched to be turned to gold. This made Midas happy until he realized he would starve to death because he couldn’t eat … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged change things to silver, creature that could eat anything at all, Dionysius, divorce the Queen, Duke Minus, eats Minus and turns him into dukie, golden robot, kept Midas touch except for food and drink, King Midas, Midas would starve to death, Milos touch, nannies could raise babies, Prince Milos, silver lining, silver robot, the gold price would plummet because of Midas, the Midas touch, the Minus touch, turn things to dookie
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Super Plan of the Diamond Giants
Since 1938 the diamond mining giants have been running scared. That date is important because it marks the 1st time that Superman appeared on the scene. Soon after, it was revealed that Superman had this trick of squeezing coal just … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged 1938, artificial diamonds, artificial diamonds are cheaper, De Beers tried to be a premium diamond brand, diamond mining giants, even De Beers just entered the artificial diamond market, natural diamonds, squeezing coal into diamonds, Superman, Superman could flood the diamond market, windows of diamond, with good enough equipment you can tell mined diamonds from artificial ones
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Time Traveling Like an Animal
Certain earth animals can time travel two different ways. They are both methods of what I call ignorant time travel. If you can somehow ignore time’s ordinary passage and “wake up” in the future – that is ignorant time travel. … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Science Fiction, Wry
Tagged animals, bears, blood freezes first, can now fly like animals, corpsicles, could skip winter in future, cryogenics, experimenting on humans, freezing and thawing, Futurama, hibernater and human hybrid, hibernation, human and wood frog hybrid, ignorant time travel, Larry Niven, liver fills cells with glucose, science fiction authors, suspended animation, time travel, time travel to the future only, tropes, water sucked out of cells, wood frogs
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Why We Won’t Find Aliens by SETI
Those aliens, precisely because they are intelligent, are in hiding, of course. What else would you do with the human race and its addiction to violence? Transmitting higher technology to us just sounds insane. We are violent when we are … Continue reading
Posted in Humourless, Science, Science Fiction, Wry
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More Anecdotal Proof of Erich von Daniken
Does anyone remember my pseudo or alien accent post from many years ago? Here is a link. In it I showed (via Youtube) my alien accent that contains a smacked M (like a kiss), clicked N and a flatulated (my … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Pseudo Science, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged alien accent, alien collusion when designing our alphabet, Chariots of the Gods, clicked n, clip clopped L, consecutive consonants in alphabet, Erich von Daniken, flatulated p, right at the centre of our alphabet, smacked m
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See! 1984 Didn’t Happen!
I am just old enough to have gone through high school in 1984. Being science fiction literate, I was aware of George Orwell’s prognosis for that year. But Big Brother didn’t show up that year, at least not as heralded … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Wry
Tagged 1984, 1984 as guidebook, AIs are good enought for limited things, album, big brother, book, Cameras are really cheap, Canada has secret trials, David Lee Roth, dictatorships, facial recognition software works now, fake news, free countries, George Orwell, Trump, Van Halen, watchdog media
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Water Roads
“Well,” the tour guide explained to the aliens aboard the gondola, “We humans accidentally had the city of Venice sink beneath the waves. But before that happened, for a long time it sank slowly and we were treated to some … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Science, Science Fiction, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged arctic and antarctic, coastal cities, Earth, fossil fuels, global warming, gondola, industrial revolution, July 13, Manhattan, Manhattan henge, sunset, two thousand foot buildings. thousand foot buildings, Venice, water roads, we meant to do this, what do we tell the aliencs?
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The Star Wars Crapfest
Star Wars is half decent entertainment for your buck. There are interesting visuals, a fast moving story and even some growth in the characters at times. But it isn’t very good science fiction. Why is this a problem for me? … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science Fiction, Stage and Screen
Tagged 1/4 of a bookstore science fiction is Star wars, Alexa, bad science fiction, BB8, Chewbacca, Chewie almost certainly sheds, clean room, entertainment, giant hairnet, Millennium Falcon, most of the Empire is wheelchair compatible, R2D2, R2D2 and BB8 don't do stairs, Siri, Star Trek, Star Wars, the Empire, the rebel alliance, translator, vehicle to sell toys
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