Nightshade/PR

HA!!!!!! And given our propensity to shoot 1st and lie about what questions we asked later, we may be better off (right now) that we haven't met any aliens so far. Expanding our definition of life might require more willingness to embrace the differences in the universe than most humans are willing to allow.

Curiosity, if we're lucky. Otherwise, our future becomes very bleak...if we even have one. I believe that it would be shortsighted and extremely misguided to believe that there is NO ONE else in the entire universe except us. If there were no other life (in whatever form or fashion), why else would it be there? We certainly don't have the ability to get to what is out there yet, and it can't exist just for killer wallpapers from NASA. We have no idea of how long life's been around in the galaxy, how long any other beings or civilizations have existed, what their level of development is, and what they are capable of. I think as a species, we make the mistake of forgetting that even on our own planet, we are not the only existing life form, and the VAST majority of them neither look or think like us. But we seem to insist on applying our rather limited vision(s) of "life" to the rest of the cosmos, and exhibiting an extreme amount of xenophobia about what may be out there. I'm not sure about what is out there, but I think we do need to practice one hell of a lot more caution about broadcasting our whereabouts into the vast unknown. After all, history has shown quite bluntly what happens when indigenous people's are exposed to a society more technologically advanced than their own. And in this conversation, we are talking about untold magnitudes of sophistication that we couldn't begin to dream of. After all, if they can get here across interstellar distances, and solving all the nightmarish technical problems along the way, they are a LOT smarter than us. And meeting that race is what terrifies me to no end. Because my biggest fear is that we may find out that the rest of the universe is populated by beings just like us.

Having been to England thrice in my lifetime, Scotland twice, I can say that he nailed it pretty good. Headed back for a vacation next summer.

Agreed. Not saying don't go for treatment if you think you need it. But "Proceed with Caution", as mileage may vary.

I'll try to guess how far back I need to go: Then try this on for size.... And then this... And we'll close with...

I'm not finding a LAV-25 anywhere in my files, but I do have a flyable A310. All I did was add this line to the config.ini - UserList=A310-MRTT_UserList.ini, and made a userlist,ini for it.

It doesn't get better than this....

I was impressed. Nice touch at the end when the cop finds his synth-partner, and gets past his phobia. That relationship should be interesting to watch.

I always have some type of music on..in the car, at work, in the kitchen, etc...It helps me think, makes the task easier, and good music is good music, no matter who's doing it. I can only do opera when I'm cooking. Big Hair, Tight Pants, and one hell of a song….Whitesnake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnH4yNqL8E Bowling For Soup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K38xNqZvBJI Sugar Ray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQSCKWfJlXs

But...you did say old school...... Big Country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4960jHfgE Scandal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7xtSU04kjM The Motels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip2okJtVACI Starship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2fLjCpT8EM Journey ( I LOVE the guitar work) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV2LDMQGps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQCsHDsMpJM And for my vote for the purest singing voice…Jeffrey Osborne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUvc44fvVx8

I'm a sucker for a good love song, and this ranks right up near the top... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xDyq_RcSo8 But some good jazz can also set the mood.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w19fpunv2Y0 And The Rippingtons can do it all.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpuhL1xFs2k But for pure funk..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7cXnXoDzA These are my late night flying favorites... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh4cvweoH90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYBDuaM5vOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7XdtW3wHFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko-EZ1qmwmY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zpyoOucB4Y

After last night's show, I have one word....................................................WOW.

I absolutely loved the scene in the car!!!!! I fell off the couch laughing when everyone bailed out, and Mia got out behind them. I know they were acting, but they looked ready to pee themselves. That was some top-notch acting.

This one gets my vote as the best I have ever seen... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3RlTikk4CI

I get the feeling that "Mia" is going to regain her memory soon, and things are going to go sideways fast. Somehow, she's the key to all of this.

It just keeps getting better.

That was an understatement. But I did love the scene in the fight club. In keeping with the tradition of really bad puns, she nailed it!!!

I have to admit that when I saw the commercial for it, my 1st reaction was "YGBSM." But as you said, there is a Sharknado 3, and obviously this isn't meant to be even remotely serious, so it might be fun.

It's almost as if there's someone else's personality that was used as the template for Anita. She has memories that are coming from somewhere, and I'm wondering how much just HOW the creator (who just happens to be DEAD) got them so lifelike..............And of course, Joe will sleep with Anita. I'm curious to see how that will play out with the family after Dad falls for a synth.

Last night was a heckuva twist on the story, so I'll hang in a little longer to see where it goes. I LOVE the touch at the mall; it was beautiful!!! As for lover-boy, be careful who you take home...His daughter's photo saved that butt. Stop it....the scene where he had to check her out had me falling out laughing. He looked SO UNCOMFORTABLE. I was yelling, "SHOW ME SOME ROBOT TA-TA's!!!!!!"

After the latest show, I see promise. The AI prostitute snapping her weirdo client's neck was a nice touch, as was her walking out. But the storyline that intrigues me most, is the good doctor's housekeeper/nurse/jailer, having been programmed to do what someone outside with obviously another agenda, wants her to do.

"I Robot" (the book, not that ATROCIOUS movie) is entertaining, interesting, and thought provoking, but written for a different time. At the time, humanity looked at the future of technology as a way to make things better. Now I believe the outlook has a much darker and sinister touch (feel) to it. Most people seem to want to use technology to give them an edge, a "leg up" on the next person; a secret weapon to deploy and "crush the competition"; and allow more "control" over large swaths of the populace. Having said that, here are some interesting reading choices that will give you an alternative view to the "we'll all hold hands and skip into that glorious future" that was a staple of a lot of the early robot stories. Robopocalypse & Robogenesis, by Daniel H. Wilson Any of the "Berserker" series by Fred Saberhagen http://www.freesfonline.de/authors/Fred_Saberhagen.html (Wings Out Of Shadow has a killer ending) Any of Keith Laumer's "Bolo" series are definite reads https://www.goodreads.com/series/49232-bolo Other writers have continued the series http://ppc.warhawkenterprises.com/bolo/novels.html Obviously, I have a darker vision of where the headlong rush to technological "Nirvana" will take us.

I watched it, and like you, I'll see where they go with this. As for the "Humanity becoming the slave of technology" theme, I've always been concerned about it. I see humanity becoming so intent of having a computerized solution to so many things, that we forget how to do (pretty much) anything. I can see already that the emphasis on learning has become less important to many; why bother going to school when you can just "google it?" There seems to be no thought given to what will happen when the tech fails. And it will. I'm not a technophobe by any means; but computers are tools in my world; nothing more. There are all sorts of inherent disasters in building machines with the ability to think autonomously, and no amount of supposed "Asimov Laws" will matter to a sentient system. Since the first law of nature to any sentient being (and that is what they would be) is self-preservation, their 1st act is to make sure you can't turn them off. Which means that lying about the safeguards encoded to keep them under control, are actually working. The show has some serious promise, so let's hope they don't wind up dumbing it down to the point that it becomes unwatchable.