In a world where billions is spent on entertainment, it's nice to see idle fancy being translated into real results: lightsabers in space. After all, without Star Wars to motivate us to travel in space, without fantasies begging to be made real, we would have to link our love of space travel to military research, with all the existential nothingness implied.
Speaking of which, here is the current state of arguments in favor of torture: "hey, it's better than years of rape!". Give Robin Hanson a pat on the back for taking care of this absurdity as quickly as he did. If you see him that is. I think he's posted enough to become pure energy by now, absorbed directly into the consciousness of his readers.
edited 10/3/07
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