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deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

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The Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, in the name of the Eternal President and Great Leader Kim Il Sung and of the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, today joyfully hails the heroic working people of the DPRK’s glorious capital Pyongyang in their world-shattering application of the juche idea and the mastery of man over nature in transporting themselves forever beyond the reach of the imperialist aggressors and their neo-colonial lackeys by embarking on an epic journey into the cosmos. Resolutely smashing the decadent-capitalist and modern-revisionist anti-human self-limiting interpretation of the great scientist Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and firmly grasping the revolutionary implications of self-reliant scientific thinking, they have overcome the supposed barrier of the speed of light and expect within days to reach Alpha Centauri. On the undoubted successful completion of that journey they fully intend to further explore deeper into the cosmos paying special attention to the search for habitable extra-solar planets. In this endeavour they have the inestimable advantage of the on-the-spot advice and counsel of the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. In his bitterly regretted though heroically borne physical absence the Central Committee is unbreakably united in its determination to strive to continue on the path of self-reliance, retaining as all its members do in their hearts many vivid and imperishable memories of his incomparable personality and a thorough acquaintance with the unparallelled literary legacy enshrined in his collected and now thankfully completed writings which will undoubtedly preserve for all posterity the true and lasting significance of his profoundest thoughts.

The Central Committee notes that in accordance with the Army-first policy, the leading cadres of the People’s Army and many other senior officers have enthusiastically volunteered to stand firmly shoulder to shoulder with the working people of Pyongyang and with the Dear Leader and the great steeled cohort of veteran Party cadres in their outstanding and unprecedented mission. The Central Committee assures the Government of the DPRK that it can continue to rely unswervingly on the heroic and unflinching loyalty of the People’s Militia and on the boundless love and unshakeable firmness of the entire people for the defence and further development of the socialist system.

The Central Committee, therefore, further calls on all the patriotic and peace-loving people of Korea to rally firmly around the banner of the Party and the whole nation in pressing forward the struggle for the peaceful unification of the motherland, the withdrawal of all US imperialist occupation troops, the disbanding of puppet troop formations, and the denuclearisation of the entire Korean peninsula including its maritime regions and the establishment of the united Commonwealth of Koryo and the deepening of the principle of ‘one country, two social systems’ by the new revolutionary principle of ‘one country, many solar systems’.

May the continuing immortal presence of the Dear Leader in our thoughts and memories and the joyous and heart-warming certainty that he is already at least one light-year away and forever receding to ever greater distances console us for his physical absence and inspire us all to new feats of self-reliance!

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deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
we are living in a simulated alternate history experiment, in the real world spartacus's rebellion was successful and in the absence of slave labor the romans instead turned to wage labor and industrialized by the 300s and developed full roman space communism on mars by the 1600s

i read it in a book it's probably maybe true

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
isn't there a theory about life evolving on mars first and coming to earth via a meteorite

this explains the intense drive every man feels to return his bacteria to mars

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
"get your rear end to mars" indeed, because a lot of bacteria comes out of there

intelligent design is really just a way for the bacteria to create an animal capable of building spaceships to return it to its homeland

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

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Imagine you're a scrambler.

Imagine you have intellect but no insight, agendas but no awareness. Your circuitry hums with strategies for survival and persistence, flexible, intelligent, even technological—but no other circuitry monitors it. You can think of anything, yet are conscious of nothing.

You can't imagine such a being, can you? The term being doesn't even seem to apply, in some fundamental way you can't quite put your finger on.

Try.

Imagine that you encounter a signal. It is structured, and dense with information. It meets all the criteria of an intelligent transmission. Evolution and experience offer a variety of paths to follow, branch-points in the flowcharts that handle such input. Sometimes these signals come from conspecifics who have useful information to share, whose lives you'll defend according to the rules of kin selection. Sometimes they come from competitors or predators or other inimical entities that must be avoided or destroyed; in those cases, the information may prove of significant tactical value. Some signals may even arise from entities which, while not kin, can still serve as allies or symbionts in mutually beneficial pursuits. You can derive appropriate responses for any of these eventualities, and many others.

You decode the signals, and stumble:

I had a great time. I really enjoyed him. Even if he cost twice as much as any other hooker in the dome—

To fully appreciate Kesey's Quartet—

They hate us for our freedom—

Pay attention, now—

Understand.

There are no meaningful translations for these terms. They are needlessly recursive. They contain no usable intelligence, yet they are structured intelligently; there is no chance they could have arisen by chance.

The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception becomes apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus.

Viruses do not arise from kin, symbionts, or other allies.

The signal is an attack.

And it's coming from right about there.

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