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I wasn’t ready to accept the wisdom of Zoltar until demonstrating responsibility through mastering “The Grip Challenge”
If you’re going with Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was awesome too. One of the only Heinlein ones that didn’t make me feel weird after I learned more about him.
Someone way to far down in the comments mentioned Arthur C Clark and the Rama series already.
I’ll go with Philip Jose Farmer and the Riverworld series then. Excellent 70´s to 2000´s philosophical sci-fi!
211·1 year agoSeems like it’s either deliberately negligent or sinister:
« The switches are equipped with safeguards, including a locking mechanism, to prevent accidental movement.
They are most often used to turn engines off once a plane has arrived at its airport gate and in certain emergency situations, such as an engine fire. The report does not indicate there was any emergency requiring an engine cutoff.
A US aviation safety expert, John Cox, told Reuters a pilot would not be able to accidentally move the fuel switches that feed the engines. “You can’t bump them and they move, »
« The switches flipped a second apart, the report said, roughly the time it would take to shift one and then the other, according to US aviation expert John Nance. He added that a pilot would normally never turn the switches off in flight, especially as the plane is starting to climb. »
I would have also accepted « side chick »
I would have accepted « Silence of the Lamps » too
And the banality of hanging-induced erections.
3·2 years agoBut they don’t deny that they work.
lol. Definitely Toronto.
Bragging about Lemmy is just a vessel for bragging about Linux.
71·2 years agoHa! « CityTv » immortalized in that gif!
« In his first speech of 2025, King Frederik said: …We belong together. »
Sigh for when Tula only used to be known for samovars…
This cat knocked George right off the podium
Didn’t think it was this; was not disappointed!