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The News for December 11, 2006:
Susan Calvin, the first and so far only operating robopsychologist, is having a mixed effect on US Robots' continuing struggle. Her academic background and clear explanations of the positronic brain have laid to rest many of the more basic concerns about the possible malfunction of such brains, while the very term "robopsychology" indicates to others the humanization of robots- and their possible future replacement of mankind as a dominant species.
By staff writer Isaac Asimov, National News
Since genetic enhancement was so severely restricted in 1997 and the first extra-solar planet was witnessed in 1999, increasing amounts of Earth's scientific ability has been directed towards space travel. The preparation of manned missions to the Moon, Mars, and Saturn is progressing steadily, although this seems somewhat of a consolation prize after the first interstellar probe seeking intelligent life, Nomad, was destroyed in a meteor collision a couple years ago.
Anonymous; released by the Society for Trekking the Stars
December 11, 2006 marks thirty years to the day since the road workers attempted to take over the country. That, and the strike of '60, are the only two incidents which have darkened the history of our greatest technological triumph. Recovery from the great insurgence was slow, and for a while some said the roads would be abandoned; but the roads roll smoothly now, and with new efficiency measures in place and heightened psychological standards for workers, I am prepared to say that they shall keep rolling until the day we finally perfect teleportation!
Associated Press
By Chief Engineer Robert Heinlein
"The Perfect Scientific Society," it has been called: An experimental city where the thinkers and the workers are strictly stratified for, in theory, the perfect skill specialization. If the community, rather unimaginatively called Metropolis, succeeds it may only be the first of many, though one wonders if class tensions may erupt in the next twenty years or so.
Associated Press
By filmmaker Fritz Lang, freelance
Jason Paradine, a renowned developmental psychologist and well-known metaphysics expert, has turned his skills to... his own family history. Emma and Scott Paradine, his aunt and uncle, disappeared in 1942, five years before his father was born. They had been playing with a mysterious box of toys(no one knows where it came from), and had developed unusual behavioral patterns that seemed to be related. A similar box which, according to the diary found with it, belonged to a 19th-century girl recently surfaced at an Antiques Roadshow event, and Paradine immediately bought it. He is currently studying the toys, and plans to show them to local children(with parental permission and under close supervision!)
By staff writer "Lewis Padgett," Local News
Lingle's flight in 1963 was the fourth manned flight in a row to simply disappear upon landing on Mars, but it looks like we're finally ready to try again. NASA recently revealed a new Mars shuttle, which they say they hope to have in the air within the year. The new technology, along with new training methods for the astronauts, should solve every flaw NASA administrators have come up with that could have led to the failure of previous missions.
Associated Press
By New York Times staff writer Ray Bradbury
Today's news has been brought to you by Donovan Loves Classic Science Fiction, and was inspired by a commentversation with skyesidhe. "Commentversation" is a conversation by lj commenting, and the term should be used in everyday conversation. Especially conversation with Leif, because he will hate it.
Quote of the Day: "Mirrors and copulation are abominable, because both multiply the numbers of man"- "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," Jorge Luis Borges.
Susan Calvin, the first and so far only operating robopsychologist, is having a mixed effect on US Robots' continuing struggle. Her academic background and clear explanations of the positronic brain have laid to rest many of the more basic concerns about the possible malfunction of such brains, while the very term "robopsychology" indicates to others the humanization of robots- and their possible future replacement of mankind as a dominant species.
By staff writer Isaac Asimov, National News
Since genetic enhancement was so severely restricted in 1997 and the first extra-solar planet was witnessed in 1999, increasing amounts of Earth's scientific ability has been directed towards space travel. The preparation of manned missions to the Moon, Mars, and Saturn is progressing steadily, although this seems somewhat of a consolation prize after the first interstellar probe seeking intelligent life, Nomad, was destroyed in a meteor collision a couple years ago.
Anonymous; released by the Society for Trekking the Stars
December 11, 2006 marks thirty years to the day since the road workers attempted to take over the country. That, and the strike of '60, are the only two incidents which have darkened the history of our greatest technological triumph. Recovery from the great insurgence was slow, and for a while some said the roads would be abandoned; but the roads roll smoothly now, and with new efficiency measures in place and heightened psychological standards for workers, I am prepared to say that they shall keep rolling until the day we finally perfect teleportation!
Associated Press
By Chief Engineer Robert Heinlein
"The Perfect Scientific Society," it has been called: An experimental city where the thinkers and the workers are strictly stratified for, in theory, the perfect skill specialization. If the community, rather unimaginatively called Metropolis, succeeds it may only be the first of many, though one wonders if class tensions may erupt in the next twenty years or so.
Associated Press
By filmmaker Fritz Lang, freelance
Jason Paradine, a renowned developmental psychologist and well-known metaphysics expert, has turned his skills to... his own family history. Emma and Scott Paradine, his aunt and uncle, disappeared in 1942, five years before his father was born. They had been playing with a mysterious box of toys(no one knows where it came from), and had developed unusual behavioral patterns that seemed to be related. A similar box which, according to the diary found with it, belonged to a 19th-century girl recently surfaced at an Antiques Roadshow event, and Paradine immediately bought it. He is currently studying the toys, and plans to show them to local children(with parental permission and under close supervision!)
By staff writer "Lewis Padgett," Local News
Lingle's flight in 1963 was the fourth manned flight in a row to simply disappear upon landing on Mars, but it looks like we're finally ready to try again. NASA recently revealed a new Mars shuttle, which they say they hope to have in the air within the year. The new technology, along with new training methods for the astronauts, should solve every flaw NASA administrators have come up with that could have led to the failure of previous missions.
Associated Press
By New York Times staff writer Ray Bradbury
Today's news has been brought to you by Donovan Loves Classic Science Fiction, and was inspired by a commentversation with skyesidhe. "Commentversation" is a conversation by lj commenting, and the term should be used in everyday conversation. Especially conversation with Leif, because he will hate it.
Quote of the Day: "Mirrors and copulation are abominable, because both multiply the numbers of man"- "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," Jorge Luis Borges.