Kind of amazing that we have recent popular literature which mentions a star and assumes it is a permanent fixture in the sky, when that star might explode within our lifetime. 🤯
Of course we also have star charts from the middle ages that show stars that can't be found in the sky today. 🤷🤔
Once upon a time a new species evolved that thought itself very intelligent.
But this new smarty pants species had a terrible blind spot. It couldn't figure out how to stop shitting in its own nest.
It wasn't a problem at first, because when the new species filled it's current nest with shit, it would just abandon the shitscape and start someplace new.
But soon enough, the new species covered the globe and had nowhere else to create new shitnests. The species wound up drowning in its own shit and went extinct.
There was much rejoicing from all the other species that had figured out how not to shit in their own nest.
They never thought the new species was very intelligent to begin with.
In a +1 score to #Perl's great back-compatibility, I've had a script called from procmail that's been 100% reliable for the past 15 years maintaining my email, over many years of regular Perl updates.
@pjakobs@jwz@leonerd@Sdowney I think it’s charitable to the #Perl 6 splitters. The Golgafrinchan Ark B group in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was mostly harmless 😉 (and useless); the #Perl6 effort was, at best, neglecting #Perl5 compatibility, and at worst, actively throwing bombs at it.
“Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to walk very slowly along a corridor for several years. Call that job satisfaction? ‘Cause I don’t.”
Is there a scifi episode anywhere when the ship gets a upgrade and now no one can find the right setting anymore and important features no longer work?
they try to change the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Genuine People Personality but end up with something worse.
the ship's computer systems breakdown when Arthur Dent explains to the drinks dispenser what tea is.
no one really know how to deal with the new improbability drive technology - when and how to use. And it renders interstellar bypasses redundant, but Earth is still subsequently destroyed to make way for a useless bypass.
Ça fait parti des jeux que j'ai achetés parce que je suis tombé sur une affaire mais auxquels je n'ai toujours pas joué : #StarshipTitanic écrit par #DouglasAdams (qui a d'ailleurs donné lieu à une adaptation oubliable qui se lit comme un spin-off de #H2G2, aka le Guide Galactique), qui m'attirait autant en raison de son pedigree que pour, autant que je m'en souvienne, une vague promesse d'IA extraordinaire qui devait être vaguement bullshit. En tout cas la #bigbox est très big et très belle.
»OceanGate-Mitgründer will tausend Menschen zur Venus schicken«
„Trotz des tödlichen Tauchboot-Unglücks der »Titan« ruft der Mitgründer der Betreiberfirma OceanGate Expeditions zu neuen Abenteuern auf. Guillermo Söhnlein will Menschen bis 2050 zur superheißen Venus schicken.“
@Gleisplan Das erinnert mich an die #golgafrincham aus #H2G2 (#TheHitchikersGuideToTheGalaxy). Die haben auch den nutzlosen Teil ihrer Bevölkerung in ein Raumschiff gesteckt und sie in die weiten des Alls aufbrechen lassen.... 🚀
Ich würde also sagen: lasst sie ziehen... 😉
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." ~Douglas Adams (in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
@opencage You forgot to credit Slartibartfast for his award-winning design:
“Did you ever go to a place… I think it was called #Norway?”
“No,” said Arthur, “no, I didn’t.”
“Pity,” said Slartibartfast, “that was one of mine. Won an award, you know. Lovely crinkly edges. I was most upset to hear of its destruction.”
— ‘The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’ by #DouglasAdams