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Don’t you just love this timeline?

by michaelmcdonald 6y ago

epicureanideal 6y ago
Maybe this time we’ll have a chance against the invasion fleet in 72.
- OpticalWindows 6y ago
  To be fair to them it is a bit hard to fix the levers of control from their observation post. Orange man did humanity a solid from what I understand.
perl4ever 6y ago
I saw a city bus flashing a message along the lines of "stop the spread" / "wear a mask" along with the usual other stuff, and I just kind had a sense of unreality, as if I were dreaming about a science fiction movie or story that I'd seen. A frighteningly plausible plague or zombie movie. I mean, I'd gotten used to it, but then I suddenly flash back to the perspective of a year ago, or ten, or twenty. An idea I had, which I will never use to write an SF novel, but anyone is welcome to steal, though it's kind of dumb and definitely not well grounded in science, is...suppose that humans are all the intelligence there is in the universe, and in the near future, something is going to wipe us out, maybe some kind of wibbly-wobbly quantum observer effect is making probabilities spread out and become fuzzier in advance, the closer we get to the event. I'm kind of imagining that the wave functions are all sort of un collapsing as we get closer to their being no observers. As if there was an improbability generator a la Douglas Adams, but due to a purely natural effect of physics.
- _jal 6y ago
  You might enjoy Quarantine by Greg Egan. Similar conceptual stuff, more detective, less bleak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Egan_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Egan_novel)
- spiritplumber 6y ago
  I wrote a story in which humans build an AI to get past that particular event horizon (which is perceived as God's Judgement). The AI is played by /pol/ posters on 4chan. http://f3.to/omega/ http://f3.to/omega/ Main story https://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.TalesFromTheBeyond.html https://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.TalesFromTheBeyo... Supporting stuff
- hamilyon2 6y ago
  You might enjoy Definitely Mayby by Strugatsky Brothers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitely_Maybe_(novel) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitely_Maybe_(novel)

Don’t you just love this timeline?

epicureanideal 6y ago

Maybe this time we’ll have a chance against the invasion fleet in 72.

OpticalWindows 6y ago
To be fair to them it is a bit hard to fix the levers of control from their observation post. Orange man did humanity a solid from what I understand.

perl4ever 6y ago

I saw a city bus flashing a message along the lines of "stop the spread" / "wear a mask" along with the usual other stuff, and I just kind had a sense of unreality, as if I were dreaming about a science fiction movie or story that I'd seen. A frighteningly plausible plague or zombie movie. I mean, I'd gotten used to it, but then I suddenly flash back to the perspective of a year ago, or ten, or twenty. An idea I had, which I will never use to write an SF novel, but anyone is welcome to steal, though it's kind of dumb and definitely not well grounded in science, is...suppose that humans are all the intelligence there is in the universe, and in the near future, something is going to wipe us out, maybe some kind of wibbly-wobbly quantum observer effect is making probabilities spread out and become fuzzier in advance, the closer we get to the event. I'm kind of imagining that the wave functions are all sort of un collapsing as we get closer to their being no observers. As if there was an improbability generator a la Douglas Adams, but due to a purely natural effect of physics.

_jal 6y ago
You might enjoy Quarantine by Greg Egan. Similar conceptual stuff, more detective, less bleak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Egan_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Egan_novel)
spiritplumber 6y ago
I wrote a story in which humans build an AI to get past that particular event horizon (which is perceived as God's Judgement). The AI is played by /pol/ posters on 4chan. http://f3.to/omega/ http://f3.to/omega/ Main story https://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.TalesFromTheBeyond.html https://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.TalesFromTheBeyo... Supporting stuff
hamilyon2 6y ago
You might enjoy Definitely Mayby by Strugatsky Brothers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitely_Maybe_(novel) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitely_Maybe_(novel)