On August 8, 2019 8:28:22 PM UTC, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: >On 8/8/19, John Newman <[email protected]> wrote: >> sci-fi >> sitting on ass > >Point is that sci-fi will always remain sci-fi >unless people put down the sci-fi book and >start getting up off their ass to make it happen, >or at least contribute directly to what they read. >
This is a different phrasing, actually a different point, than I originally replied to. My point, and my only point, is that this shit makes for good sci-fi whether I sit on my ass or not, and whether any of it ever happens or not. Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but the way you qualified my statement "it makes for good sci-fi" with "ONLY IF you sit on your ass doing nothing about it" is nonsense. It makes for good sci-fi, full stop. As to the statement about it always remaining sf unless people act, of course if all the engineers and coders and scientists in the world quit working en masse then progress will stop. But I don't see that happening. I know I need a fucking paycheck ;) (not that I'm working on the fountain of youth or anything) Anyway I think we started talking past each other. >Live long and prosper. Catch you later, in the dark near the Tannhauser gate, where the C-beams glitter ;)
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