/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9960382
Nothing says "One of the smarter human beings on the planet" like near-lethal alcohol poisoning and a trash bin full of 5 hour energy

>>2606603
>those glasses

Preemptively, in return for answers, here's Provost Zahkarov from Alpha Centauri doing the caramelldansen.

>>2347635
Banks is like waaaay better at this than me, he doesn't even have to duplicate vowels to pad stuff out. And really all that matters to anyone is
Oh hey wait wasn't one of the books called Matter? Double meaning?
sense data, what you see and know and believe. Means, ends, it's all the same to a simulation.

Shit, let's be serious. You're right, there isn't any comparison between ICBMs and RKVs. But there's a comparison between people who wish to use them, and that's what's important here. Because you can't answer RKV-Guy's point with logic; his conclusions follow from his premises, and most of his premises are sound (or in the case of "humanity > aliens," are very hard to convince people otherwise of).

There's a false dichotomy in "kill or be killed," but arguing that gets you nowhere. So you just have to laugh at the people who really really BELIEVE in that dichotomy, who are convinced that plus ca change, plus c'est ca meme chose. Certain that their morality is still up to date.

And wait for the zeitgeist to run them over and leave them bitter and alone and wishing the world weren't so awesome. Pic related.

It's the technology we need to get the particle impactor.