tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post3808300458857965311..comments2024-03-28T19:45:08.560-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): How to defeat the earthlingsMinnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-13353802186710559262017-12-22T13:16:58.322-06:002017-12-22T13:16:58.322-06:00I enjoy science fiction, but unfolding protons int...I enjoy science fiction, but unfolding protons into five dimensions (or one) leaves me with little frame of reference.Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-69397530997780115122017-12-22T13:13:59.746-06:002017-12-22T13:13:59.746-06:00"I won't review the book, which I found a..."I won't review the book, which I found a bit disappointing.."<br /><br />For what it's worth, the two books that follow it are paced much better, and more "happens." The first book ends up looking like a long, dull history lesson relative to what follows in the second and third installments.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05733477843324517799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-86212492807470917992017-12-22T13:12:33.466-06:002017-12-22T13:12:33.466-06:00Is it accurate to say it's the scientific comm...Is it accurate to say it's the scientific community in the book that "deludes and discourages the world"? against some kind of defense? The matter of the sophons is pretty directly related to the world, and the world does try to mount a defense.<br /><br />You second statement is also a theme of the book(s): who decides what work is worthy of human endeavor? The response is that this is always an ambiguous and loaded question. Bad things come to pass no matter how we direct ourselves, individually or collectively, and this is only knowable in hindsight. In any case, there's plenty of human endeavor to go around. We're not going to run out of it because there's no agreement on what the "more pressing" tasks are.<br /><br />As a working scientist, I giggle a bit at the idea that there's some monolithic "scientific community" that is single-mindedly working on exclusively not-pressing things. Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05733477843324517799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-35287891972027634312017-12-22T08:03:09.865-06:002017-12-22T08:03:09.865-06:00Your analogy breaks down as this is (in the book) ...Your analogy breaks down as this is (in the book) the scientific community itself that deludes and discourages the rest of the world from doing what they know to be right - which is to defend themselves from the impending threat.<br />Now, apply that to the current world, where we have a scientific community actively engaging in green politics while the real, more pressing threat (NK, ISIS, others) is ingored or accomodated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-51904021691175669052017-12-21T22:23:36.299-06:002017-12-21T22:23:36.299-06:00Any science fiction that presumes humans would ret...Any science fiction that presumes humans would return to a flat earth belief of the world is clearly ridiculous.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00930112890626149390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-16081923572570120262017-12-21T20:10:19.560-06:002017-12-21T20:10:19.560-06:00Definitely the dump...Definitely the dump...bobbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14353836074794786357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-76903143064033426182017-12-21T18:38:59.467-06:002017-12-21T18:38:59.467-06:00Donald Trump.Donald Trump.Barbwirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17375742473254773675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-86781982545459259522017-12-21T17:33:51.544-06:002017-12-21T17:33:51.544-06:00So...what?
Vladimir Putin is from another world?So...what?<br /><br />Vladimir Putin is from another world?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com