Pistol Shrimp

"A neutral observer would not find this world to be believable."  — N.D. Wilson

Consider the pistol shrimp.  It...

• ...can kill fish at a distance.
• ...is one of the loudest animals on Earth.
• ...is considered a nuisance by the Navy.
• ...is friends with one particular kind of fish and hangs out with it all the time.
• ...can generate temperatures equivalent to the surface of the Sun.

Pistol shrimp FTW.

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A Logic Named Joe

"A Logic Named Joe": a 1950 radio play based on a 1946 short story.    It seems to get the basics of the modern-day Internet right, along with playing around with the idea of a technological singularity.

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Q179: No neutral ground

"[I]deas have consequences. Moreover, all of them do."

— Douglas Wilson