And now I am almost as jealous of you as I am of the occasional person who says they just discovered their first Heinlein novel… To have such things to read as brand-new…
Oops, thanks I did meant Erwin. I fixed it.
You could make a case that the Time Machine in the H.G. Wells novel (1895) of that name gets to the future using that technique... Yes, it does also travel backwards in time, unlike the Lizard one.
Michael Ironside: *holding a coin* Okay, Heads, I send 'em a "fruit basket" of random items to snack on as thanks for raising new interest in the V box set. Tails, I ask for a cut in the profits in spendable currency to satisfy the copyright crowd... *Flipping it and facepalming when a d4 with question marks replacing the numbers lands*
You know, finding that they are using Pattern Theory, as a basic part of their culture, would be really interesting...
) multi-episode author omake, and I think its been mentioned elsewhere. Scary stuff, as PT seems portable across all dimensions...)Personally, I think it should be a 64-sided dice, marked up in octal, for extra fun... So, looks like a D4, but has two digits on each face each in the range zero to seven... Your choice as to whether '00' means zero or 64...
Someone once pointed out to me that if you want to mess with the 'I Ching', 8-sided dice, d8s, are the way to go, not yarrow stalks, or coins...
They didn't recognize the specific conifers; they did recognize the category. Similarly, with the birds, they recognized the category but not the specific examples. Probably the only conifers that look like anything they'd recognize would be Wollemi pines and their nearest relatives. AFAIK, Mesozoic birds still had teeth and while fossils of at least one species with pygostyles have been found, I'm pretty sure most Mesozoic birds still had lizard tails.
Keep in mind that they'd been speculating about possible visitors from another planet. The sapients that they found being related to them tells them that the beings in question are not from another planet.
Interesting. I can't help thinking that anything sent forward WAY too far (namely after Heat Death) will emerge into a completely non-referential non-space, promptly collapse into all the mass with no scale (You know, a monobloc), and then explode as a new Big Bang.
... So it requires the entities to have slightly more brain cells than a box of cereal? Because infinite food and infinite space, regardless of planetary restriction, both require defeating the conservation of matter on a Grand scale.
I think the average box of corn flakes is more intelligent than one of Scion's people.
Actually...
I will. I do admit, however, that the working name Ladybug Filk causes me to imagine Miraculous having an episode at a convention.
