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  • #46
    I never read anything by the man, but I did like the 2001 Odyssey in space movie

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    • #47
      Originally posted by VetLegion
      I never read anything by the man, but I did like the 2001 Odyssey in space movie
      Then I'll suggest that you move your lazy ass down to your local library and start reading
      With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

      Steven Weinberg

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      • #48


        I enjoyed Rama and Asimovs's Foundation series.
        I'm consitently stupid- Japher
        I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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        • #49
          Originally posted by Agathon
          The 9 Million Names of God is my favourite SF short story.
          Then you should try reading The Nine Billion Names Of God. That one's much better.

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          • #50

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            • #51
              Originally posted by BlackCat


              Then I'll suggest that you move your lazy ass down to your local library and start reading
              This isn't Den-"police state"-mark where everyone has to look the same, read the same books and so on

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              • #52
                Someone posted this in CFC. Its the last recorded message by Clarke:

                If you don't like reality, change it! me
                "Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
                "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
                "Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by BlackCat


                  Then I'll suggest that you move your lazy ass down to your local library and start reading
                  QFT

                  I expected more of VetLegion.
                  Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                  The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                  The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by GePap
                    Someone posted this in CFC. Its the last recorded message by Clarke:

                    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4db_1205893786
                    WTF is CFC?
                    Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                    The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                    The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                    • #55
                      It is the Civfanatics centre website, CFC

                      As the interest in the total Civ world shrinks a little, we regard our colleagues in CFC as fellow travellers.
                      On the ISDG 2012 team at the heart of CiviLIZation

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                      • #56
                        You admit going to 'that other civ' site?

                        Brave.

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                        • #57
                          I just watched 2001 as a tribute...

                          Man, what a movie. Thought provoking and bizarre. However, I think the bizarreness comes more from Kubrick than Clarke, although I guess I have no frame of reference as I have never actually read the book (I have read two sequels). I guess I'll be doing that pretty soon.
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                          • #58
                            Originally posted by Hercules
                            It is the Civfanatics centre website, CFC

                            As the interest in the total Civ world shrinks a little, we regard our colleagues in CFC as fellow travellers.
                            WTF is with people suddently answering that question?
                            Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                            The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                            The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                            • #59
                              Originally posted by Winston

                              Then you should try reading The Nine Billion Names Of God. That one's much better.
                              I forgot about the effects of inflation.
                              Only feebs vote.

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