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strawman wrote:Such a state might give guns to criminal cartels in order to study what would happen.

...and might be so silly as to name the operation after a popular movie in which the criminals always get away.

Nah, that's just too ridiculous.

"What is that idiot doing? Get him back here immediately!" Klimp turned to the professor and answered, "Sir, the Lieutenant is investigating disturbing readings from the wanderer at the system's edge. I know he's close to the one-way EM shield, but..." "The last thing we need is to lose transmission...

strawman wrote:Except for those alien cultures in which rhyming of words is the worst form of incest.

Taboo Vogon porn? I wonder how quickly this forum would be blacklisted...

...so "my ignorance of the concept of right and wrong is to blame for my actions" is a valid legal defense. I've always found this a strange concept. Sounds like the state is encouraging moral ambiguity and thereby increasing the use of such a defense, no? The logical end of this seems to be a socie...

I don’t consider myself to be a preppy upbeat optimist, but surely humanity would be able to offer something good to an alien race. A species capable of music and poetry can give something positive to the universe? Sure hope so. It'd be mighty embarrassing to find out that we're being ignored by th...

And Ruby was unfazed, because she was old enough to remember an esoteric synonym for firewood.

Not sure the Appalachian spelling is Scrabble kosher though...

Richard Feynman. He was Fran's dad on 'The Nanny,' right?

Without actual exposure to alien psychology, we can only theorize about our culture's effects upon them. I'd like to believe that outside eyes would help us find the big truths , the seeking of which has brought us into so much conflict. This drabble is the cynical take on this dynamic (seeing the i...

I like this one. I have some friends in the SCA, and it's fun to think about what the future of that organization will be like. The story also implies, at least to me, that the society of the future will be one in which people hope that their ancestors took things more seriously, while the 'realists...

Welcome. Nice drabble, though I hope it's not autobiographical.

I really like this one, but I can't help but think that the last line seems out of place.

The diner had never been so silent. The little triped clacked in its own language and opened its robe, revealing a brace of explosives. A translation grated from the nearest table's talkbox. "For defying the teachings of Sagan the Unbeliever, you all die." First contact brought human faith to the ga...

This is great! I love how it shows hope and determination, even willful ignorance of its ultimate fate (not normally associated with machines), but does so in a way that's elegant. In a couple sentences we learn that a) the machines have an existential aspect to their view of their mission and b) at...

I like it. It plays on my repeated experience with stories of alien benefactors coming to humanity, but reinforces the idea that given the opportunity humanity might very well be the barbarian aggressor. It also makes me wonder who sent the elevation sphere. Was it a race already decimated by human ...

Finally picked this up from amazon. Bravo,Mr. Sherman's cerebral parasite, bravo.

* makes some assumptions *

Awww, cats aren't always evil....

I think maybe God knew Moses wasn't ready to see that His beard is actually a mass of tentacles.

...ouch? I think?

Makes me wonder if she just liked the other guy's clothes, or if she's using a suit as a sort of once-removed cuckold.

This was his last chance. He knew what another failure would mean. Being disbarred from the Society would have grave consequences for the rest of his life. He held steady and watched the bushes for any movement. As the target exploded into view, the hunter carefully lined up the sights and squeezed ...

That's good.