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Is there other Intelligent Life "out there"? If not, why not? If so, will we ever contact them? Comparison of some ideas, science-fiction notions, and what The Urantia Book says.

Text added on 2015 Dec 14
Subjects: Urantia Papers, Isaac Asimov, Star Trek, extraterrestrial

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on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Dec 6, 10:25am
by: mindful webworker - cosmic character

Re: Fermi's paradox

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Subjects: extraterrestrial, Isaac Asimov, Star Trek

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Nov 1, 10:23am
by: mindful webworker - on a glorious morning

Decades ago (so, take my biomemory with a shaker of salt), I recall reading that Asimov was in front of his typewriter at 9am and worked through (presumably with lunch break) until 5pm.

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Subjects: Isaac Asimov, work

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Nov 1, 9:41am
by: mindful webworker - awake, anyway

I read Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy back when I was in high school.

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Subjects: Isaac Asimov, science fiction, sex

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Jul 12, 9:55am
by: mindful webworker - to experience, and beyond!

Re books for young'n's, IIRC, Asimov early in his career did a series of books for kids, which should be good straight-up SF.

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Subjects: Isaac Asimov, science fiction

on: Ace of Spades • Thu 2014 Jan 2, 12:15pm
by: mindful webworker - Hey, hey! It's 9 Ladies Dancing Day!

For those of you who missed it, the Jonah Goldberg link to Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions for 2014

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Subjects: future, IBM, Isaac Asimov

on: Ace of Spades • Thu 2014 Jan 2, 11:49am
by: mindful webworker - Hey, hey! It's 9 Ladies Dancing Day!

liberals think they can improve on His work.
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The above quote from the Coulter column explains exactly why Hollywood Biblical epics suck.
Posted by: WalrusRex

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Subjects: Alan Moore, Ann Coulter, Deity, Hobbits, Isaac Asimov

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2013 Feb 17, 11:23am
by: a mindful webworker dry drunk on life

Foundation, when it was just a trilogy, and everything else by Asimov up til then. Robots!
Lord of the Rings including the appendices. Read Hobbit + LotT aloud to the kids.

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Subjects: AoSHQ, Hobbits, Isaac Asimov, Moby Dick, Urantia Papers