Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages?

Re:Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? by mechanical_fish on Saturday January 03, 2009 @01:31PM (#418537)

Prediction is impossible, we all know that. What we don't know is that retrodiction is also impossible. History is a form of science fiction. The future is history that hasn't happened yet. History is the sensibility of one time, assessing another time, that it cannot possibly know.

-- Bruce Sterling, http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/1-25/Note%2000001.txt

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Re:Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? by icey on Saturday January 03, 2009 @03:46PM (#418665)

Superman can't really fly, but he's still fun to watch.

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Re:Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? by mechanical_fish on Saturday January 03, 2009 @09:43PM (#418905)

I'm sure Sterling, who has made his living writing SF, would never wish to suggest otherwise.

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Re:Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? by patio11 on Sunday January 04, 2009 @02:30PM (#419414)

That depends... which Superman are we talking about? Lois and Clark Superman or get-her-pregnant-then-zoom-off-to-Krypton Superman?

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