At Long Bets, Bet #2 has reached its deadline. And I would say the bloggers have won. Searching for "britney vonnegut benazir bhutto iphone," the top 5 results are all blogs.
Robot, and the Cities That Built Him is a fun little thing that will make you laugh.
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by Bruce Sterling. Quoted by Warren Ellis: “I’ve been in an eight-year struggle to write ‘a kind of science fiction that could only be written in the 21st century.’ With the possible exception of my forthcoming novel, this story is my best result from that effort.”
Finally, this man can move a big rock, and tells scientists, "If you want to know how to build Stonehenge, ask a construction worker."
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Inside the Chamber of Dr. Solong
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This is brilliant. I love the fact that he is just a construction worker. Science has attempted to recreate Stonehenge a couple of times using only methods thought to be around during the time of the Druids, but none of their methods seemed as simple and straightforward as this. More like knowing how to do it, then working backward, this seems like a logically first approach, or at least an early method of testing how to move such big objects.
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