Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 20, 2013

Except that, invariably, his downloading the information from the drone worker is what will actually start the robot apocalypse.

Sic transit gloria munde !

Don’t get him riled, Jeffrey, you know those drones….

Unless ofc it was in the bin due to acting like it was an apocalypse.

Or… was the Drone in the recycle bin because it’s brain was… wait for it… Abby Normal?

shoulda got a mac!

Not to worry: Having been one, I can safely say that the drones are just civil servants. They’ll be used until they break down and the world will be safe. I’ve long said that “welfare” is not a socialist thing, it’s a conservative thing. Attract all those who care and then drive them nuts.

mundi.

There’s something I wonder: If a random person from the present were transported into the past, say a few hundred years, would his or her knowledge of events and science be useful to his survival? It’s a convention of speculative fiction that such a person would corrupt the time stream; or become fantastically rich; or at least a wizard in the employ of an ambitious king.. I’d say the average person has such a limited specific knowledge of such things that, even if brought before intelligent interrogators in the far past, what he said would have little value other than for entertainment. The average person (I am one!) remembers little of school history and less of practical technology. He would be able to explain the future in only the broadest terms. Probably it would be concluded, in disgust, that people from the far future are childish fools, much as Wells portrayed the Eloi..I know time travel in the sense it is portrayed in stories allows writers to make social commentaries, and is not technically possible. But think of yourself transported back to the time of Francis Bacon and how you could specifically clue him in to useful knowledge. I myself would feel inadequate in that regard.

can’t wait to see how this plays out. wonder if Danae “helps” along the way. lol such a wonderful comic strip

“Sorry Dave I won’t let you do that. I heard what you said.”

Ya forget, when you download some of what you have is being uploaded….its a risky risky….

I…am not a Robot!

Hook him to internet, how could that go wrong?

Resistance is futile…slaveboy!A robot with attitude! I love it!

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

On Monday, Gloria threw up in the subway.

(This joke was a chapter title in a book I read about 25-30 years ago.)

@DANAPAULUS………..oooh, I didn’t see THAT coming!!!Now I feel nauseous.

If he vanishes because he never existed then you cannot bring him back to download his hard drive and prevent an apocalypse. DOH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But….that robot couldve started the whole thing.

If the robot disappears because you stopped the rising of the machines and therefore this robot will never exist, then how did you bring back a robot that never existed for you to bring back to prevent him from existing? Grandfather Paradox have you got a minute?

Notice how no programmer wants to talk about the Laws of Robotics? I guess they secretely want something to happen.

If you know the future, then you can not change it. If you can change the future, then you can not know it.

And who helped kept the human race going…??Hint, the female-half of this idiot human specie…

Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois, (1947) had a balloonist end up on Krakatoa at that time. I don’t recall any Daleks appearing there.

In a science fiction story, how do you stop technology from destroying mankind? Give the author anti-depressants.

All he will do is split the timeline and open another universe at the cusp point.

Ya gotta hate it when these brainy types mess with thigs that shouldn’t be messed with….at least Doctor Who knows when to back down and move on!

Why can’t there be two time lords in the same place at the same time?

That would be a paradox.