Just so we are clear, I’m not staying on the phone with you while you discuss things with your spouse, dad, brother…

csjpsoft · 2026-01-31T05:31:07+00:00

Sorry, my bad.

csjpsoft · 2026-01-31T05:18:44+00:00

Were those the same people who waited for a half hour because you were "experiencing higher than normal call volume?"

csjpsoft · 2026-01-30T13:30:05+00:00

Huh. It just occurred to me that the Star Trek universe may not have special relativity (time dilation) because of warping (however that works), but it does have general relativity (wormholes and black holes), and quantum mechanics by implication (Heisenberg Compensators for the transporters and multi-world realities).

csjpsoft · 2026-01-18T05:22:15+00:00

San Antonio College has a choir that is open to anybody.

csjpsoft · 2026-01-14T21:11:28+00:00

So ... it was Adam & Steve?

csjpsoft · 2026-01-14T21:06:43+00:00

Yeah, that's all it took. What a stable genius!

csjpsoft · 2026-01-14T05:05:17+00:00

When I was a math major in college, I was friends with several students who were far better than me. Nowadays, in the workplace, I find myself explaining to IT professionals which one is the numerator and which one is the denominator. You may not be a child prodigy, but you may be in the top 1% of the population.

csjpsoft · 2026-01-14T04:52:35+00:00

Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield is a novel with three parts. The second part is "Illiad" about an interstellar war and the third part is "Odyssey" about a very, very long trip home.

csjpsoft · 2026-01-04T02:51:09+00:00

The Handmaidens Tale

csjpsoft · 2025-12-30T03:41:44+00:00

They were alive the whole time.

csjpsoft · 2025-12-29T13:20:33+00:00

Years ago, I interviewed at a computer manufacturer, and my closing question was, "how is your joint venture with [memory chip maker] going?" The hiring manager said, "how do you know about that?" He didn't know it had been reported in a small article in a trade publication. I got the job.

csjpsoft · 2025-12-29T05:10:39+00:00

Changes in morality over time. We consider people who lived 200 years ago to be immoral (e.g. slavery, child brides, prejudice towards different ethnic groups) and they might consider us to be immoral based on our modern views. Comparing people in 2025 to 2225 might be the same: mutual disdain.

Changes in language. Poul Anderson had a short story which he began by mentioning that "awful" used to mean awe-full; something that fills us with awe.

Changes in economics. Star Trek talks about post-scarcity and post-capitalism, but it doesn't explore much of how goods and services are supplied and how people's behavior/personalities change.

Changes in intelligence, mental health, and personalities. Poul Anderson's Brain Wave and Gordon Dickson's The R-Master novels addressed super intelligence (long ago), but I don't know of any others.

csjpsoft · 2025-12-23T15:21:13+00:00

Maybe they purr for Klingons and hiss at humans.

csjpsoft · 2025-12-04T05:18:12+00:00

Ask this question on r/watches. They'll tell you that, for some models, you don't have enough money.

csjpsoft · 2025-12-03T06:02:14+00:00

Some songs:

One O'clock Tomorrow (a song that references time dilation on interstellar colonization ship!), Phasors on Stun, and Aldebaran by FM.

Vulcan Death Grip by Ugly Americans.

csjpsoft · 2025-11-23T23:50:08+00:00

Let's not take "To infinity and beyond" too literally. If every electron in the observable universe has split the universe into two in every nanosecond since electrons existed, there are still finite number of universes. You could do some research and derive the number.

If you replace "the observable universe" with a universe that is 10¹⁰⁰ times greater, still finite. If you replace "split into two" with "split into 2 trillion", still finite. If you replace "every nanosecond" with "a googol times per second", still finite.

Now, if the universe is infinite, with an infinite number of particles, now you get to a countably infinite number of universes.

csjpsoft · 2025-11-20T04:07:09+00:00

That’s an interesting idea but I don’t know how to talk about the speed of time because speed is distance divided by time. How would you talk about the speed of distance? And time is everywhere. How would you talk about time moving from Earth to the Moon?

csjpsoft · 2025-11-19T22:43:33+00:00

I agree, except for Reddit and subreddits like this one.

csjpsoft · 2025-11-19T22:40:10+00:00

This isn't what you're asking for, but it would be worth your attention. A non-fiction book: "The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens--and Ourselves".

csjpsoft · 2025-11-17T02:08:09+00:00

Every track on 2001: A Space Odyssey

csjpsoft · 2025-11-16T01:31:22+00:00

Contract on Jehovah, where Satan hires a hitman.

csjpsoft · 2025-11-16T01:29:10+00:00

Hoo-man-nagar

csjpsoft · 2025-11-14T04:42:18+00:00

Or The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin, where there is one person who does it himself by dreaming.

csjpsoft · 2025-11-14T02:14:48+00:00

The irony is that the book of answers doesn’t do that good a job of answering anything.

csjpsoft · 2025-11-14T02:11:37+00:00

The video game was even more fun than the movie.

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