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Post by **RJDiogenes** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 7:18 pm

Wouldn't any Grand Unified Theory be an example?

scottydog · Post by **scottydog** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 4:23 pm

As an example, I was thinking of Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute mile barrier. Because people had said such a feat could never be done, would his achievement be considered an example of Clarke's second law?

Post by **RJDiogenes** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:52 pm

Yes, but don't you think Clarke was more likely to be considering things like interstellar travel and Dyson Spheres?

scottydog · Post by **scottydog** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:07 pm

Yes. Do you have any thoughts about the rivalry, if there was one, between Clarke and Asimov?

Post by **RJDiogenes** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:57 pm

They just kidded each other, but don't you think the relationship between Asimov and Heinlein was more amusing?

scottydog · Post by **scottydog** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:00 am

I Googled this and found nothing. Can you send me a link on the amusing relationship between Asimov and Heilein?

Post by **RJDiogenes** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:48 pm

I must have read about it in his magazine essays, so do you mind if I summarize an example below?

Asimov was a teetotaler and Heinlein was a hard-drinking type, so one time at a party Heinlein spiked Asimov's drink. Asimov began to realize that something was happening to him, so he went off to sit in a corner and wait for it to pass. He was normally loud and gregarious, so this caused Heinlein to remark that Asimov was the only person to ever sober up when drunk.

scottydog · Post by **scottydog** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 1:43 am

RJDiogenes wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:48 pm
...so this caused Heinlein to remark that Asimov was the only person to ever sober up when drunk.

Do you have any idea how Asimov got him back for that prank?

Post by **RJDiogenes** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:12 pm

Unfortunately, I do not. Isn't it funny that, despite the petabytes of data freely available on the Internet, that we still can't find what we're looking for?

scottydog · Post by **scottydog** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:01 am

But can you imagine ever returning to the days before the internet and Google searches?

Post by **RJDiogenes** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:39 pm

Isn't it hard to even remember what it was like?

scottydog · Post by **scottydog** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:54 pm

Do you think there is such a thing as internet addiction, and do you think we are addicts?

Post by **RJDiogenes** » Sat Mar 23, 2019 6:41 pm

Can human interaction be an addiction?

scottydog · Post by **scottydog** » Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:24 pm

If there are some things we need in order to survive, like oxygen, can it be considered an addiction if we seek them?

Post by **RJDiogenes** » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:25 pm

If so, would we not have to conclude that addiction is not necessarily a bad thing?

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