Comments on: today’s roundup

By: para_cynic

para_cynic — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:39:31 +0000

…no real reward aside from not crashing…

But that’s my favorite thing helicopters do.

Congrats on doing well in your training. As an old grunt, let me say that while we do make fun of you guys, we really appreciate your support.

By: ultimatepsi

ultimatepsi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:08:02 +0000

I second this comment.

By: brynndragon

brynndragon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:23:07 +0000

*laugh* I love the notion that future shock is a luxury we can no longer afford. Although it reminds me of the people in Transmet who were cryogenically frozen in the late 20th Century and revived when the tech was able - and almost immediately went insane when confronted with the world in which such tech was not only available, but sufficiently cheap that they would revive people as a public service. Frankly, the future is coming at us at the same pace it always has and anyone paying attention will be capable of handling it.

By: coriolinus

coriolinus — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:39:09 +0000

perhaps because of the “science fiction is real” first paragraph that didn’t strike me as strange.

It’s good that that construction worked. We live in a world where the very pace of change is accelerating on a daily basis, and we’d never get anywhere at all if we stopped to get caught up in future shock.

By: brynndragon

brynndragon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:30:22 +0000

I parse the image as a pregnant man and perhaps because of the “science fiction is real” first paragraph that didn’t strike me as strange. I wish him and his wife all the best, and I fear that they will need it.