The Old Folks Home

[bamadude]

Ballin

 

[Beer can]

Bit of a book junkie when I was younger, had my own personal library, every book that the school was throwing out, took every discard home and saved them, yeah doesn't fit my persona, but I've read thousands upon thousands of books. Anyone read Isaac Asimov? He wrote hundreds of books and I probably had 50 or so of my own. He was known for science, space, the real stuff and science fiction . I read all his hard cover stuff I had, but two years ago during deer season I needed a book to pass the boring time of waiting (pre smart phone for me) and found a paperback mystery novel of his that I had for 25+yrs. Never was one for that kind of book, couldn't put it down after I started reading it! 'Tales Of The Black Widowers' it was called, a collection of a bunch of short stories he wrote for magazines through the years , very good and hard to put down. Isaac Asimov wrote the books that inspired the movies Gandahar, I,Robot and Bicentennial Man.

 

[getaclue]

Bit of a book junkie when I was younger, had my own personal library, every book that the school was throwing out, took every discard home and saved them, yeah doesn't fit my persona, but I've read thousands upon thousands of books. Anyone read Isaac Asimov? He wrote hundreds of books and I probably had 50 or so of my own. He was known for science, space, the real stuff and science fiction . I read all his hard cover stuff I had, but two years ago during deer season I needed a book to pass the boring time of waiting (pre smart phone for me) and found a paperback mystery novel of his that I had for 25+yrs. Never was one for that kind of book, couldn't put it down after I started reading it! 'Tales Of The Black Widowers' it was called, a collection of a bunch of short stories he wrote for magazines through the years , very good and hard to put down. Isaac Asimov wrote the books that inspired the movies Gandahar, I,Robot and Bicentennial Man.

The original Star Trek was inspired by Isaac Asimov.

 

[getaclue]

I also enjoyed Michael Crichton. The Andromeda Strain was/is excellent reading. Much better than the movie.

 

[perchie.girl]

Bit of a book junkie when I was younger, had my own personal library, every book that the school was throwing out, took every discard home and saved them, yeah doesn't fit my persona, but I've read thousands upon thousands of books. Anyone read Isaac Asimov? He wrote hundreds of books and I probably had 50 or so of my own. He was known for science, space, the real stuff and science fiction . I read all his hard cover stuff I had, but two years ago during deer season I needed a book to pass the boring time of waiting (pre smart phone for me) and found a paperback mystery novel of his that I had for 25+yrs. Never was one for that kind of book, couldn't put it down after I started reading it! 'Tales Of The Black Widowers' it was called, a collection of a bunch of short stories he wrote for magazines through the years , very good and hard to put down. Isaac Asimov wrote the books that inspired the movies Gandahar, I,Robot and Bicentennial Man.

i am in admiration of Asimov... He coined the robot laws. And Heinline. Heinline has an interesting history he wrote originally for an age range of about fifteen to eighteen... Because of advice from his publisher... He ended that period with Starship Troopers. NOT the story the did for TV. has very little resemblance.

Then when he broke away from the publisher then we see "Stranger in a Strange Land" "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "Time Enough for Love"

I too was a collector of books also thousands and thousands. I am hoping to get a hold of my dads books before mom gets too un reasonable. He was a colelctor of science. Math Physics electronics Rockets aeroplanes.... Tecnhology what ever was the latest of his day.

He has a copy of the Machinerys hand book volumn five or six... They are like bibles and really dont change much over the years except some of the terminologies... New processes... They dont have todays plastics but they do have everything else. Thick and very thin paged like a bible. Right now a modern version is version 29... even todays modern version you can use it complete to build machines and mechanisms with motors... you look up the motor drawing it will give you size Height width and depth the mounting pattern and torque. No matter where you go to buy that motor there will be very little difference from the book and the actual motor.

Back to fiction... another one I have read about all of was Michael Chriton. The lastt book of his that i have read is "A State of fear" was amazing and not a horror book. Michael Chriton did The Androminda Strain, Jurassic park, He was a medical doctor too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton

Oooh I just found that he wrote under a Pen name too as John Lang

deb

 

[vehve]

The robot laws are interesting. Right now, one of the topics for self driving cars is in direct contradiction to the first law of robotics. Consider you're driving your Google car, which is fully automated. A situation arises, where you are suddenly driving at 50 mph towards a wall, and the only direction in which the car can swerve, two kids are standing. So the car is going to have to decide whether to kill the driver, or the kids. Quite a freaky thought. Loads of ethical questions with automated cars, even though they would probably decrease accident rates dramatically, I don't think accidents can ever be fully avoided. So who's responsible? I don't think there really is an answer to that, at least not yet, but I find the thought interesting.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

Yep. I have read all of the above ......an avid book worm from hatching

 

[drumstick diva]

Felix very good point - I don't think I would ever trust a self driving car unless there was a manual over ride. Even then I can't drive, so I think I'd just walk.

not this energetically though

 

[vehve]

Diva, what if there's ice cream in the other end of your walk? I bet you'd have a bit of a bounce to your step then.

I'm not sure if self driving cars and driver driven cars would mix in traffic. A self driving train I wouldn't have an issue with though.

 

[tntchix]

we are doing a coop makeover



start with salt water cured construction bamboo



split bamboo and clean out soft pith from internal surface



form lattice using 1.5" nails



install

looks great oz