Re:Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet
by arethuza on Thursday September 12, 2019 @04:23AM
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"reality is so limiting compared to what we can imagine"
This is actually a central theme of the Zones of Thought novels by Vernon Vinge where a character in the far future describes our current time as the "Age of Failed Dreams" (GAI, nanotech etc.) - turns out that he is wrong but for rather neat reasons....
This is actually a central theme of the Zones of Thought novels by Vernon Vinge where a character in the far future describes our current time as the "Age of Failed Dreams" (GAI, nanotech etc.) - turns out that he is wrong but for rather neat reasons....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky