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    Michael Jackson's Science Fictional Life

    Michael Moorcock Can't Read "Transhumanist" Fiction Because It's Not About People

    Find Out How Old Your Body Is: Scientists Can Measure Your Actual Molecular Age

    Holes In The Fabric Of Reality Happen All The Time In Belgium

    Octomom Is Post-Human Entertainment

    Your Personality Is Being Rewritten On The Fly

    Prosthetic Limbs that Fuse with Your Skeleton

    20 Things You Can Put on Your To-Do List Now to Change the World in 100 Years

    This Time Next Year, You Could Be Posthuman

    Bionic Breakbeats, or The Best Robot Songs
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    Image of deleteboy deleteboy
    06/25/09

    In reply to Michael Jackson's Science Fictional Life
    lead photo: When did MJ meet Jason Stackhouse?
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    06/25/09

    @deleteboy: Get out of my brain.
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    Image of Nefilim Nefilim
    06/25/09

    In reply to Michael Jackson's Science Fictional Life
    I cant believe moonwalker wasn't even mentioned in here. i mean he did turn into a jaguar xj220 and then he became a early version of a dancing terminator at the end.


    This man was amazing, Regardless of all the other bullshit. he will be dearly missed.


    Rest in Peace Micheal.

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/25/09

    @Nefilim: Yeah I was a little surprised by that omission as well. Giant mecha Michael I figured wouldve made it in here.
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    06/25/09

    In reply to Michael Jackson's Science Fictional Life
    The day the 80s died...
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    Image of the memorexe the memorexe
    06/25/09

    In reply to Michael Jackson's Science Fictional Life
    Did you mean to use the Thai inmates video?


    MJ was as close to a sci-fi entity as anyone gets. I'm surprised he hasn't stashed some clone somewhere to continue his ongoing life-experiment.


    Actually I'll be more surprised it that is not the case...


    RIP Michael. At least the media can't get to you now.

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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    06/25/09

    @the memorexe: Pfft! We have yet to see the media shitstorm on the horizon of this man's death.
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    06/25/09

    In reply to Michael Jackson's Science Fictional Life
    Here's another:


    I really *loved* Captain Eo. Fighting things with the power of Rawk is just...so great.

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    06/25/09

    @Alexis Brown: oops, last vid didn't load for me.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    06/25/09

    @Alexis Brown: Should be fixed now.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    06/20/09

    In reply to Michael Moorcock Can't Read "Transhumanist" Fiction Because It's Not About People
    Ah, yes. Another comment from an old guard that can be easily misinterpreted for some cheap yucks.

    I dig Banks and Co.- but he does have a point.
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    Image of Nealjs Nealjs
    06/19/09

    In reply to Michael Moorcock Can't Read "Transhumanist" Fiction Because It's Not About People
    "This was always my argument about sf - that generally, by abstracting it, putting it in some 'other place', you lost some of the relevance."


    "The moment a spaceship turns up, you've lost me."


    But put an evil sentient sword in an albino's hand on a completely made up continent, I can completely relate!

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/19/09

    @Nealjs: I know! That's realism! There's no such things as spaceships!
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    Image of SnehalMarten SnehalMarten
    06/19/09

    In reply to Michael Moorcock Can't Read "Transhumanist" Fiction Because It's Not About People
    Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce ASS-HAT Extraordinaire MICHAEL MORE-OR-LESS-COCK!

    And to think I've actually wasted time reading some of his CRAP.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    06/20/09

    @SnehalMarten: I see you have your asshat firmly in place. Probably cocked at a jaunty, douchebaggian angle. Just right.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    06/19/09

    In reply to Michael Moorcock Can't Read "Transhumanist" Fiction Because It's Not About People
    "I am essentially suffering from verbal diarrhea right now. Please excuse me."
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    Image of dirge93 dirge93
    06/19/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Aw, give the guy a break. His career is based off of drugs he took and book he wrote decades ago. He's the Ozzy Osbourne of science-fantasy novels.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/19/09

    @dirge93: Don't forget some wack-ass music, decades ago. Like Ozzy.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/26/09

    In reply to Holes In The Fabric Of Reality Happen All The Time In Belgium
    There's no such place as Belgium. Everybody knows that.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/26/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Sure, not in the present. But this is set in the future!!! I mean it is a SF blog after all!
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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    05/26/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: @92BuickLeSabre: You know, of all the uses of time travel I've experienced so far, I must say someone coming back and giving us a delicious style of waffle is by far the best.
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    Image of nworobes nworobes
    05/26/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: OK, I really can't tell how many of the people in this thread got the initial reference and played it cool, and how many people didn't catch the initial reference at all. So for all those in the latter camp:


    -Belgium doesn't exist:

    [zapatopi.net]


    -And the original conspiracy theory that probably spawned that:

    [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/26/09

    @nworobes: We're easily distra...oooh, overtime...cted.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/26/09

    In reply to Holes In The Fabric Of Reality Happen All The Time In Belgium
    What a curious case...that I will be substantially more likely to watch than that last curious case.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    03/29/09

    In reply to Octomom Is Post-Human Entertainment
    More isn't always better, but if self-selected use of technology to push back the biological goal posts is any criteria


    "Self-selected" is a term that means nothing. There's no such thing as "self-selected". You "select" something. You're already a self. It's just "selected".


    I really hate thinkers who make up nonsensical terms.

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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    03/28/09

    In reply to Octomom Is Post-Human Entertainment
    @Lassus: I also don't imagine that your great-grandmother had all 14 in two batches, either. Big families aren't the issue; at least, not to me, but then again, if you ask certain environmentals, they get a little frothy over the notion of people having more than 1 or 2. But the case of the Octomom (which sounds like a comic book) is worth studying, if only to figure out where "the system" went wrong.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    03/28/09

    @Jeb_Hoge: Yeah, back then people had "step" families, meaning each child was born about a year after the other. Which was great for finding babysitters.
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    Image of kolacek kolacek
    03/28/09

    In reply to Octomom Is Post-Human Entertainment
    No jokes out of me today.


    I work with mentally ill people, homeless citizens and people who are just plain down on their luck.


    From top to bottom - the top being her doctors and the bottom being her pea-sized brain - this "Octomom" is putting babies and small children into serious danger.


    Not funny by a mile.


    Those kids deserve the same chances that all of us have had to grow up and be happy. What they just got handed was a bag full of shit by a crazy bitch who looks like the queen from Aliens in that disgusting stomach shot.


    If anyone wants to do something constructive, try calling that douchebag's local CPS o0ffice and insist that those children be placed with adoptive parents who are not insane.


    Jesus fucking christ that woman makes me angry.


    .

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/28/09

    @kolacek: This is a rare moment for me.


    I totally agree with your statements yet have nothing to add. that woman was very wrong.


    That is all.

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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    03/28/09

    In reply to Octomom Is Post-Human Entertainment
    My great-grandmother had 14 children. Was she also post-human?


    Methinks people are overthinking this a little bit.


    Also, calling a human being entertainment in such a incredibly dismissive manner is incredibly pathetic behavior, no matter how superior you think you are to her.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    03/28/09

    @Lassus: To be fair, Nadya Suleman (AKA Octomom) has courted this interpretation by seeking out media attention. We live in a world where people turn themselves into entertainment all the time via reality TV shows. So this isn't just RU Sirius doing something *to* Suleman; this is him interpreting what she's done to herself.
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