Must... Have...

Thank goodness those kids finally succeeded on the arbitrary, short-lived career path their moms pushed them onto.

Really? I thought it was just tactfully called "parenting"...

Ugh. I'm starting to realize I'm susceptible to psychosomatic nausea...

This reminds me in a bad way of the one time I was in anything approaching rough seas. It was a ferry from Finland to Sweden, with winds around 30m/sec. In Stockholm, trams were thrown off their tracks by the wind.

I'd just had dinner when the waves hit and was lying down in my cabin, thinking that might be the easiest way to weather the ship's rocking. It wasn't. Decided to go out on deck to get some fresh air, a task slightly complicated by the way the floor kept falling out from under my feet while I was trying to walk. This on a ship built to transport some 3000 people.

End result, I might as well not have paid for the dinner, plus I self-diagnosed myself with an ear infection that really flared up about the same time. And this is almost an inland sea we're talking about, nothing like an ocean. I think I'll stick to planes for transcontinental travel, thank you very much.

Seems pretty appropriate to me...

Interesting, I wonder if the dog actually hears the resonance it's imitating... Sometimes with interference or even very loud sounds I seem to recall hearing that kind of cancellation wave effect.

*blocked

I've been thinking along these lines myself, although my idea was more like an array of superbright IR LEDS on a hat, to dazzle the cameras and make it impossible to discern the wearer's face.

I'm curious, which video game do you mean?

related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpsaLApA2eQ

(not really siftable, as not a video... And I know "Willie Pete" isn't napalm, but it'll do the job on kids, too.)

This brings all kind of interesting questions to mind... How hard is it to learn to essentially use two languages at once - spoken (or sung) English and ASL in this case? And I assume you can't exactly rhyme in sign language, either - how does this all translate over? Not that "jingle bells" is exactly full of sense, but anyway.

Very cool, but it seems like the process needs to be rather more automated if you're going to sell these in quantity.

Still, someone actually made a machine for this...

Drift Wars, anyone?

I don't think Clarke meant to imply you can turn a fantasy story into a sci-fi one by adding the word "space" to everything.

I was about to say - one of my pet peeves is how bookstores have combined sections for "SciFi and Fantasy". Stuff like this reminds me why the two get clumped together.

Taking a fantasy plot and replacing magic with technology doesn't really count as sci-fi for me... I mean, we've got some kind of Space Queen here? Really?