Ikr, like did he work for Boeing or…? :-P

He definitely had “character” though, as someone who faced death, multiple times, and had to stare at it and let it change him, to focus his efforts on stuff that really matters in life. (anti-capitalistic principles I guess?:-D)

Maybe if it did a little more LDS, it would understand:-).

As an aside, perhaps that speaks to just how great Gene Rodenberry was to have created the show in the first place? Here’s an awesome comic about him.

Data and Spock are the same person, I knew it!? 😂

He scares me… thinking that he means it literally!?

Oh yeah… well… the joke is on you, see, I actually wanted moar bullshit all along!

Ah Bester, my favorite ambassador from Babylon Six!? :-P

Engage laughter module.

Cease. Now resume work.

Okay that’s definitely not the one I was thinking of. However, he reportedly wrote a story a year for Issac Asimov’s periodicals for almost two decades, plus his many actual books, so it is no surprise that some of his themes were re-used, yet hard to find the name of:-).

I thought the one I am thinking of was neat b/c the dinos were gate-keeping offering their transportation technology to humanity, thinking that surely no warm-blooded mammal could possibly keep their emotions in check to do what must needs be done, unlike the cold heart & keen mind of a reptile.

In other works like his collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke “Altered Carbon”, Pohl used the concept of that “stack” to limit the spread of one human mind that would otherwise just be spread out amongst the stars with as many copies as bodies could be found to hold them. But in other anthologies there were other limitations preventing that (and presumably some others still that I haven’t read where those limitations were removed?:-P).

Is that the one with the “dinos”? I recall a short story about teleportation in that manner, and something happened, but it was the confirmation that got delayed. So the original person was up walking around, waiting to be sent again, drinking tea, etc… when the equation had to be balanced. Stories like that really make you think, not just bam-pow-punch-kick… in space.

I wonder where they went?

Is this the new “Honey Badger Don’t Care” meme?

This alone is enough to answer why people need to vote for Biden next term!!!

Somehow I feel like you would know better than I on the matter pertaining to this subject… (Lemmy equivalent to “username checks out”?:-P)

Mustache only=sexual predator, goatee=evil, etc. - facial hair never lies!:-P

I heard that your mother is smaller than Egypt!

And if you happen to die in the meantime, well then in that case you cannot sue :-P.