As it happens, I just came across TONTTD and read it. CorporalChaos, nice summary. It's much better than another summary I read, http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050919/notkin-c.shtml which doesn't even get the ending right. Now, what relevance does it hold? I think the scrapped Heinlei...

Actually there are severall christian groups that try to start the apocalypse. http://www.letusreason.org/curren23.htm Those guys are trying to acquire Jesus Christ DNA to clone him which would start the second coming. Other groups try to trigger the "Apocalypse of John" . And thats just ...

You know guys, that shot of Asuka's arm proves nothing.

Arms not made out of Spam! They do not split evenly down the middle with a uniform red filling. They have little white bones and things in them.

It's just mental imagery. Half of what you see inside a plug is.

These guys are planning something similar, and are dead serious about it. There is a lot of techno-millenialist feeling out there in the real world. FWIW, I've been reading SIAI material (and participating in discussions) for most of the last decade. The Singularity as most of them/us e...

Greetings everyone. I figured that I've been reading and benefiting from the discussions here long enough that, although I prefer the Eva ML, I ought to register.