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Human preferences toward things in nature, while refined through experience and culture, are hypothetically the product of biological evolution. For example, adult mammals (especially humans) are generally attracted to baby mammal faces and find them appealing across species. The large eyes and small features of any young mammal face are far ...
A scene of a first contact between aliens and humans in Robert Sheckley's 1952 short story "Warrior Race". First contact is a common theme in science fiction about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient species' first encounter with another one, given they are from different planets or natural satellites.
A newly sapient Pioneer 9 is one of the main characters of 17776.. The story takes place on a future Earth where humans stopped dying, aging, and being born in 2026. All social ills were subsequently eliminated, and technology preventing humans from any injury was developed.
The Orbital Corporations won the Rock War, and now they control America. [2] Cowboy, one of the protagonists, is a smuggler who can control an armored hovertank using a neural interface.
Wireheading, like other forms of brain alteration, is often treated as dystopian in science fiction literature. [5]In Larry Niven's Known Space stories, a "wirehead" is someone who has been fitted with an electronic brain implant known as a "droud" in order to stimulate the pleasure centers of their brain.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether the families of victims of terrorist attacks in Israel may sue the Palestinian Authority in federal court for hundreds of millions of dollars in ...
The Neanderthal Parallax is a trilogy of novels written by Robert J. Sawyer and published by Tor.It depicts the effects of the opening of a connection between two versions of Earth in different parallel universes: the world familiar to the reader, and another where Neanderthals became the dominant intelligent hominid.
As sports viewers and fans, Saturday is going to be a bonanza unlike anything we’ve ever seen. At noon Eastern, things kick off with SMU at Penn State followed by Clemson at Texas and then the ...