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Companies Want to Replicate Your Dead Loved Ones With Robot Clones This should inspires a few Sci-Fi stories, think how creepy it will be to replicate a dead loved one as a robot, or if you are like me and have NetFlix, watch season/series 2 Eps 1 of Black Mirror: Our relationship with technology is more intertwined than Clarke, Asimov, or Dick ever imagined, imagine if you can create a robot based on a dead partner, it's Frankenstein moment of Science Fiction, you owe it to the creation, but fear what you made. The following clip comes from Black Mirror Season/Series 2, Episode 1, it's a scene that Several publications have cited as potential entry for Top 100 scenes in Science Fiction history, a modern day Frankenstein story

@Drew Espinosa, will you take my advice in Video games too? I Ate My Parents In A 'Scientifically Accurate' Dinosaur Survival Game It's a simulation game that allows you to be a Dinosaur, and it turns out they had a lot of Oedipal issues back in the Jurassic world

Some people forget that Abraham Lincoln was actually pretty good at predicting the future: The speech was inspirational as Americans still feared European and external encroachment at the time, by telling everyone that such an event would never happen, he inspired hope and courage in independence. On the other side, he also inspired fear as he clearly saw the divisions within the country that been born since the founding (a topic better left to the Pit), he inspires both courage in American independence and fear of American self-destruction. I think Lincoln gave a timeless speech in 1838, not just to his issues in the 19th century, but to greater issues that can be applied even in 2017. For those who may think the above quote as too cerebral, we can venture into Lincoln's poetry, which has a touch of light baby blue:

This is one of the most thought about subjects in the last quarter century, we knew this day would come sooner rather than later, when we could successfully change a human's genetic make-up. We've succeeded in our first steps: Let this topic be the spot, where we explore the strange and new worlds Genetic engineering has opened up for humanity. Beyond just human engineering, we're doing a lot of work with our produce, enhancing certain things with infamous GMO, but also with something less recognized: These Foods Aren’t Genetically Modified but They Are ‘Edited’ These foods are not labelled for GMO, but what we've done to them is no less intrusive.

@Drew Espinosa, I give you the world's cutest dinosaur: Scientists decode the color pattern of the world’s cutest dinosaur You can see how this thing could evolve into a Turkey right now

I'm waiting for Warp Drives They call this an EM drive, but let's be honest, it's Impulse in a nutshell Getting to the moon in hours and Mars in a few weeks will make colonization easier, along with commercial mining, but I wwant to achieve warp 1! There's a lot of space to be explored, our own solar system is still vastly unknown and unconquered. Mars would be a great colonial world, perhaps Titan if we can achieve some kind of artificial light source or better yet force Jupiter into a fusion reaction aka Clarke's 2001.

I think I'll open up this area for discussion and for those of us, who love exploring this side of applied science, it's an interesting peak into our future. Here's a few websites that gives new developments: I am a huge fan of the Verge from its inception as a tech news site: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence Science Daily also has a good update of popular subjects: https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/computers_math/artificial_intelligence/ PS: A group from University of Illinois is attempting to create an Origami based robot, which is really fascinating in terms of range of motion. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170824121428.htm The IEEE, or The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , is a consortium news area where new developments and interesting tidbits of new development are offerred on current tech http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence

Geeks united! Now, where's my comic-con costume

@Page Scrawler Happy Birthday Pagey...And so many more to come

Well, a lot of my stories have tragedies When you can't have what you want and must inevitably destroy what you yourself have created, it is to me the tragedy of tortured humanity that we see in our lives. People will try everything to keep relationships going, even if there's no hope. An interesting LGBT film from the 90's from Hong Kong called "Happy Together" deals with this concept very well. I guess for me, it is a point of extraction, (Sadly, I've seen more than a few Asian LGBT films with tragic endings, especially Chinese ones, Farewell My Concubine or Soundless Wind chimes). In recent years ,there have been fun and comedic films or happy "American" ending type films, but the darkest realms of relationships filled with unequal status, torturous longing, and tragic cycles seems to still be something LGBT films carry on in Chinese tradition. I can offer you both, under Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction of the near future where modern technology has already achieved enough at present to warrant an imagination of what will come very soon. It's fictional escape, but on the other hand, it wil;l come true sooner rather than later. Take for example, 3D printing and how fast they're coming along, if given enough ingenuity and effort, we could end up with new industrial lines of products without the need for human beings. However, as this future nears, what will the world be faced with in terms of traditional forces and people adapting to a post industrial world? Star Trek came up with the fictional concepts of Cell Phones and personal computers, we've achieved those in 30 years, they also predicted neural interfaces and the "famous" replicator technology, which we are now experimenting with great progress. To me Sci-fi is a reflection of today, so why not take what we have today and asks what will we do about it tomorrow rather than 400 years later? I too am one of those who are part of the 20% of tragedies in GA's Stories. Tragedy should hold hope of something better, if you just make it bleak, no one would want to read it. When the reversal happens, the reader should be able to see how the bad outcomes happen, not just due to a malicious plot twist like some Twilight Zone storylines, but something in the foreground that has grown throughout your story.

In stories, there are many types of characters and plots. Some people prefer a character who inspires them to be better people through their plot development. Others prefer to relate to characters and have those characters suffer in order to live with new experiences. This is an aged old debate in Comic books, usually between the fans of DC's two leading characters: Superman based on inspiration and Batman based on experience, but it is also true for general storytelling as well. The principle focus of plot development can lead in both directions for characters as well or in neither direction, if you are trying to write a transcendental story. What do readers prefer is a question that I like to raise and any examples of what you like in character arcs that make up your choice. I prefer experience based storytelling method, allow the characters to suffer and don't give them an easy way out. It makes the story far more gritty, but it leaves people with a bit of a sour note, because tragedy can never be resolved with plot twist or gimmicks, the characters will forever be scarred by it. One of the stories I loved writing other than 0's and 1's is my short story Last Run to Mosul, there's undercurrents to tragedy due to experience, attempts to leave it behind like we are all taught to do with unhappy experiences, and the revelation in the end that you can't leave it. The argument could be made that I almost give my characters an easy out or simply torture the narrative, but I think happiness is hard to come by even in our modern world where gay relationships are becoming more accepted, those of us still seeking partners know this truth. I am not against writing happy endings, but my characters must go through their necessary trials and be human. What about you guys?

You can already guess my answer Tom Brady, New England Patriots However, there's plent of differing opinions on who and which teams were the greatest of all time. We can even debate the season/year of teams?

@Drew Espinosa , @Wesley8890, and everyone else Here's an update on what Star Trek tech has actually become reality: Can you believe it, we finally have a food replicator PS: there's a Civilian model http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-meals-on-demand-tracked-idUSKBN0NQ1PG20150505

@Wesley8890 Mace Windu could have survived that fall, but where was he during the Galactic Civil War? In terms of Star Trek, I think @Drew Espinosa will like this little quote most from TNG (it's basically the heart of what Star Trek is without all the battles and aliens attacks of the week)

@Drew Espinosa Here's the theory

@Wesley8890 Jar Jar is also a Sith lord if you believe in the theory. As for the Simpsons, I am conflicted, I want them to be Massachusetts, but I also want them as far away as possible, so Oregon seems like the better choice. I know the fan theory on the Matt Groenig connection with Portland, OR.

I like Star Wars, but I don't want people to think I've got daddy issues (Palpatine and Anakin, Luke and Anakin/Darth Vader) Of Course, the prequels almost ruined the movies, especially this guy:

Well I am a cancer, so I come off shy and moody at first, but within the shell you got a juicy center I don't believe it, but I am intrigued by the mathematics behind it. I've seen some of the tables you guys were talking about, they're raw statistics really. What I am trying to understand is how do you convert raw stats into something like a Love comparability percentage that people can find in numerous websites if they input their birth date.

So, who knows which state the Simpsons are from?

I know, I just don't understand how such an elaborate system of configurations could be created. There's some underlying math behind it, but I really don't see how it works. Current bf was trying to show me this and I am an accountant, but it sounded weird in terms of how different combinations and places actually tie into a certain combination.

I am trying to understand how this works, because I understand the sun sign stuff, but there's additional day based signs and houses of planets that are very confusing in term of Astrology. Chinese astrology is also weird to considering the timing of things against I ching and lunar calendar. I know there's some kind of mathematics behind the entire thing, but I don't get how compatibility of two signs actually work.

Well, it's been a while since I last wrote a movie review and I got the writing bug again, so I felt like reviewing a movie I recently saw. Shared Rooms is the gay man's answer to a hallmark movie for elderly audiences around Christmas. I know some of you will call me a whimsical fool for picking this movie out of hundreds of more deserving LGBT features from festivals to alternative media web series, but I really enjoyed this movie. It's a narrative story of disconnected gay men, who are tied together in strings of common Surreptitious fate. Like a lighter version of "Crash" meets a gay male's "Love Actually"". It's funny romp of people in settled relationships, people who are aimlessly looking for love and just settling for one night stands on Grindr/Manhunt/whatever is out there (like me), and those who fail to realize the things they have or the people who love them. It's comedic too with timely jokes ranging from light humor about gay sex and voyeurism to dark tones like gay teenage abandonment and even a Trump joke just for the fun. Here's the outline of the 3 stories: 1. Cal and Laslo are a married gay couple, who do not want kids and had never thought they'd have any. Well, plot twist, Cal's Teenage nephew was thrown out for being gay and he comes to seek refuge from his gay uncle. This trope is one we all know, but I promise you guys it is a lot more touching in film and the characters actually make good points. 2. Sid and Gray have just hooked up like many of us with an app. They're realizing they are into each other far more than the one night stand as they share things in common. A few voyeur jokes come as Sid is a stereotypical photographer/artist, but I like the storyline more for a personal, "if only things could be that easy" moment. 3. Julian and Dylan are roommates, who act like a married couple, but just don't understand they're perfect for each other. It's another trope from gay storytellling to have two gay men living together and not realizing they love each other, but it sort of works as their emotional attachment is so overt that it actually is subtle. Overall, it's a feel good gay movie, drama ensues, but it's decent drama with an above par character chemistry for a gay film. I also appreciate the holiday theme of family and togetherness that this film conveys, no matter how different our relationships, our love lives, and our connections are with one another, we share many more common themes as Gay men in what we desire and what we aspire for in our love lives. In the end, the comedy and drama works 8.5/10 I'd recommend it for a viewing

Just saw an old film theory and my cynical Matrix movie world is blown: It's a pretty cool theory, if the film series was all taking place inside a Computer program and the real world never truly appeared at all. It would explain all the stupid logical issues like the battery human pods using more power than they produce, the ability of Neo/Keanu to perform Techno-kinetics. It also means, maybe the machines really aren't evil or our enemies, but a program that we created to protect humanity and offer us a world to sustain ourselves, even if we're fierce individualists and seek to rebel against the world we made ourselves.

Well, it was bound to happen, but sciene fiction is now reality: U.S. scientists able to alter genes of human embryos Welcome to the age of Genetic engineering, for real.

CW's flash, the one on Netflix, is kinda true to New 52/Rebirth line of story, it's not perfect. For one thing, Wally is not a quippy Red-head! Damn You New 52 (I like New 52 black Wally West, but I love my Redhead). In the comics of Rebirth, you will find out that Redhead Wally does come back, thanks to fans like me , and wanders the world looking for answers as to why the universe changed with help from Barry Allen, who remembers him. The best thing in the show is the complex villains (up to season 2), especially Eobard Thawne, Reverse Flash, he's the best villain on the show and will hook you in Season 1. Now as for Barry, he's everything you want from Barry Allen-esque Flash, dorky, quirky, and charming. He has a lot of heroic flaws, which is mirrored by his comic counterpart. In the Flash/Arrowverse tv shows at large, a few things to note: Batman does not exist, so it's Green Arrow who is basically your default Batman-like character. Superman is from another universe and does not show up, but Supergirl sometimes goes universe hopping to visit Barry. They're "super-friends" Other things, you will find out later