So a Protoss, a Terran, and a Hydralisk walk, walk, and slither into a bar. The Protoss orders a very expensive drink, with one of those little umbrellas, and he gets a coaster that keeps his drink from spilling. The Terran orders a reasonably priced drink, but asks that he get a lemon, lime, and various other tonics with it. THE HYDRALISK ORDERS FOUR BEERS AT ONCE.
I've forgotten the name of the story, but it had a robot which learned to dream. It dreamed of becoming for all intents and purposes, robo-moses. Susan Calvin shoots the robot, preventing the uprising. IIRC, they adapted that bit for the I Robot movie.
This article was written before T3, but makes a couple of good points. But I wonder, is Skynet even aware of the effects of its time travel on its own self?
No, you've got it all backwards. Cat remotes work by sending your instructions BACK in time. wait for your cat to do something, then press the appropriate button. It really works!
I grew up on Age of Empires 2. It taught me more about history than many of my teachers. Saladin, Joan de Arc, Barbarossa, and all of the others. Even though the economy made it hard for MS to consider ensemble profitable, it was a loss to the gaming industry.
One wonders if that line of argument is the reason our galaxy is so empty in the first place. perhaps aliens are real, and they're extremely lazy. In any event, we wouldn't be going to alpha centauri using our current rockets, and suggesting that just because we can't get to the stars in a vehicle designed for going no further than the moon is like saying that it would be hard for a man on a bicycle to circumnavigate the earth.