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Cheap Drunk Driver Detection From UofM
"Look, I can drive... Start, darn it!" - Philip K. Dick, 1963. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Can A Human Land A SpaceX Rocket On Its Tail?
'If she starts to roll sideways — blooey! The underjets only hold you up when they’re pointing down, you know.' - Stanley G. Weinbaum, 1936. (re: Stanley G. Weinbaum)

Robot Snakes No Longer Stopped By Stairs
'...she dropped her hands from the wheel, took the robot snake from his box.' - Lee Chaytor, 1958. (re: Lee Chaytor)

Has Turkey Been Stealing Rain From Iran?
Can one country take another's rain? (re: Neal Stephenson)

We Need To Build Anti-Drone Systems For Civilian Spaces
'the real border was defended by ...a swarm of quasi-independent aerostats...' - Neal Stephenson, 1995. (re: Neal Stephenson)

SensorWake Scent-Based Alarm Clock
'The odalarm awoke Jorj X. McKie with a whiff of lemon.' - Frank Herbert, 1977. (re: Frank Herbert)

AI Worms That Spread
'...there were so many worms and counterworms loose in the data-net now' - John Brunner, 1975. (re: John Brunner)

Challenges Of Two-Armed Robots
When the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. (re: Various)

FlexRAM Liquid Metal RAM And One Particular SF Movie Robot
'Its lines wavered, flowed, and then painfully reformed.' - Philip K. Dick, 1957. (re: Philip K Dick)

Ulm Sleep Pods For The Homeless
'The lid lifted and she crawled inside...' - Larry Niven, 2000. (re: Larry Niven)

Prophetic Offers Lucid Dreaming Halo With Morpheus-1 AI
''Leads trail away from insertion points on her face and wrist... to a lucid dreamer...' - Peter Watts, 1999. (re: Peter Watts)

More Like A Tumblebug Than A Motorcycle
'It is about the size and shape of a kitchen stool, gyro-stabilized on a single wheel...'- Robert Heinlein, 1940. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Tesla Camera-Only Vision Predicted In 1930's SF
'By its means, the machine can see.' - Miles J. Breuer, 1930. (re: Miles J. Breuer)

First Ever Proof Of Water On Asteroids
'Yes, strangely enough there was still sufficient water beneath the surface of Vesta.' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951. (re: Raymond Z. Gallun)

Aptera Solar EV More Stylish Than Heinlein Steel Tortoise
'When confronted by hills, or rough terrain, it did not stop, but simply slowed until the task demanded equaled its steady power output.' - Robert Heinlein, 1940. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Gigantic Space Sunshade Would Fight Global Warming
'...the light of the sun had been polarized by two crossed fields so that no radiation could pass.' - Arthur C. Clarke, 1953. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)

Untethered Spacewalk's 50th Anniversary
'But that space walk of mine wasn't so very amazing.' - Dom Passante, 1939. (re: Dom Passante)

ESA Designs Huge Inflatable Moonbase
'It was like being inside a balloon; indeed, that was exactly where he was.' - Arthur C. Clarke, 1961. (re: Philip K. Dick)

AlphaGarden Robot Cares For Gardens Better Than Humans
'...a simple clock-set servok with pipe and hose arms.' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert)

Let's Make Slaver Sunflowers! Engineering Plants To Reflect Light
'The mirror-blossom was a terrible weapon.' - Larry Niven, 1965. (re: Larry Niven)

TeslaBot Uber Driver (2024) And The Automatic Motorist (1911)
'Robots have worse problems than anybody' Philip K. Dick, 1954. (re: Philip K. Dick)

DiffuseBot Uses Generative AI To Invent New Soft Robots
'It embodies several small-scale multiple stampers, apparently for dealing with sheet metal.' - Maurice G. Hugi, 1941. (re: Maurice Hugi)

Philips Smart Palm Recognition Smart Deadbolt
'A palm lock must be keyed to one individual's hand shape...' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert)

BMind Smart Mirror from Baracoda
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who has the greatest wellness of all? (re: Manga Clamp)

Ballie Your AI Robot Companion From Samsung
Projects your content anywhere you like. (re: Various)

Holobox? Who Doesn't Want A Home Hologram?
'...there appeared standing upon the disk, the image of a man...' - Edmond Hamilton, 1928. (re: Edmond Hamilton)

LG Smart Home AI Agent
'...this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep.' - Ray Bradbury, 1951. (re: Ray Bradbury)

Transparent MicroLED Screen From Samsung
Has Samsung nailed the Look of Things To Come? (re: HG Wells)

Navajo Say Human Cremains On The Moon Is 'Desecration'
'Like all loonies, we conserve our dead...' - Robert Heinlein, 1966. (re: Robert Heinlein)

MAGGIE Mars Aerial and Ground Global Intelligent Explorer
'placed in the wings of a plane to generate power from the light falling on that surface...' - John W. Campbell, 1930. (re: John W. Campbell)

AI Tries To Replicate Famous People
'Religion’s one thing, Mr. Leckesh, but immortality’s something else. Lo says immortality’s no big problem anymore.' - Rudy Rucker, 1986. (re: Rudy Rucker)

Brainoware Reservoir Computation Of Biological Neural Networks
'Head cheese. Cultured brains on a slab.' - Peter Watts, 1999. (re: Peter Watts)

Pipedream Underground Delivery At Peachtree Corners
'...open mouths of pneumatic tubes, an endless row of them, each marked with its destination.' - Miles J. Breuer, 1932 (re: Miles J. Breuer)

A-Lab The Autonomous Lab At Berkeley
'You know he has the largest automatic laboratory outside of those on Earth?' - Michael Moorcock, 1964. (re: Michael Moorcock)

Project Kuiper Satellite Mesh Network
'What is that?' [Uhura] (re: Gene Roddenberry)

GNoME AI From DeepMind Invents Millions Of New Materials
'...the legendary creativity of our finest human authors pales against the mathematical indefatigability of GNoME.' (re: Various)

KIME Robot Mixologist
'...the perpetual beam carved in the robot face of the bartender.' - Alfred Bester, 1956. (re: Alfred Bester)

Laika Concept Robotic Dog Companion
'He snapped his fingers, and a lean, rangy hound rose from the corner...' - Otis Adelbert Kline, 1937. (re: Otis Adelbert Kline)

Hangzhou Robotic Trash Sorting
'...good enough to recognize most things they pick up.' - Harry Harrison, 1956. (re: Harry Harrison)

Bullet Steers Itself! The Advanced Low-Cost Munitions Ordnance ALaMO
'You've heard of a bullet that has your name on it.' - Michael Crichton, 1985. (re: Michael Crichton)

Blue Ring Spacecraft Platform Concept From Blue Origin
'...the space platform, a gadget the Army had succeeded in establishing six hundred miles up.' - EB White, 1950. (re: EB White)

Arma Lunchbox-Sized Folding Electric Scooter
'You will notice that it is folded and telescoped into a compact mass which fits the suitcase nicely...' - E.D. Skinner, 1929. (re: ED Skinner)

Ghost Robotics Developing Robotic Dog Border Guard
'A robot dog!' - Otis Adelbert Kline, 1937. (re: Otis Adelbert Kline)

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Sees Extreme Flare
'Radar-electronic recording devices had measured and calculated...' - Lawrence Chandler, 1952. (re: Lawrence Chandler)

European Union Seeks To Regulate AI
'Autonomy, that's the bugaboo, where your AI's are concerned.' - William Gibson, 1984. (re: William Gibson)

Russians Think US Is Weaponizing Asteroids
'BY PUSHING AGAINST THE LITTLE MARTIAN MOON WITH OUR ROCKET SHIP, WE HAD LESSENED THE CENTRIFUGAL SPEED THAT HELD IT BALANCED IN THE SKY.' - Philip Nowlan and D. Calkins, 1930. (re: Philip Nowlan and D. Calkins)

The Warp And Fabric Of Spacetime
'Jenkins had evidently fallen into a warp in space.' - Schachner and Zagat, 1930. (re: Schachner and Zagat)

'Birds Aren't Real' An NPR Gen-Z Conspiracy
Keep your eyes on the skies! (re: Various)

Wearable Energy Harvester
'... he had tightened the chest to gain maximum pumping action from the motion of breathing.' Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert)

Drones Participate In Buddhist Rites
'...a prayer wheel swung into view and began spinning at a furious pace.' - Roger Zelazny, 1967. (re: Roger Zelazny)

Anna Indiana AI Singer-Songwriter
'She is a personality-construct, a congeries of software agents' - William Gibson, 1984 (re: William Gibson)

Video Manicuring ala Schismatrix
'The program raced up the screen one scan line at a time' - Bruce Sterling (re: Bruce Sterling)

'Feel the AGI' OpenAI Leader Now OpenWorship
'And are all the people willing to be governed by a machine?' Miles Breuer, 1932 (re: Miles Breuer)

NASA Tests Prototype Europa Lander
Why have legs if they don't walk around? Just asking. (re: Various)

Tailsitter Drone Aircraft For SAR
'...it was so easy for me to remain motionless in midair.' - RH Roman, 1929. (re: RH Roman)

Forward CarePod The AI Doctor's Office
'It's an old model,' Rawlins said. 'I'm not sure what to do.' (re: Robert Silverberg)

Mika The Robot-Boss
'the robot-boss was busy at the lip of the new lode instructing and egging the men on to greater speed...' - David C. Cooke, 1939. (re: David C. Cooke)

Yamaha Motoroid 2 No Handlebars Self-Balancing Motorcycle
'He rode the bike with an intense lack of physical grace...' - Bruce Sterling, 1998. (re: Bruce Sterling)

San Francisco Autobus
'THE autobus turned silently down the wide street...' - Stanley G. and Helen Weinbaum, 1938. (re: Stanley G. and Helen Weinbaum)

Should Your Car Decide If You Can Drive?
'Okay. Maybe the car was right...' - Philip K. Dick, 1963. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Lucid Dreams On Demand From Prophetic and Card79
'the peeper did not operate by virtue of its machinery alone, but by the reaction of the brain and the body of its user...' - Clifford Simak, 1957. (re: Clifford Simak)

Honda UNI-ONE Hands-Free Wheelchair Follows 100 Year-Old Design
'Noiselessly, on rubber-tired wheels, they journeyed...' - David H. Keller, 1928. (re: David H. Keller)

EBS-260 Handjet Free Hand Dot Matrix Printer
'McKie held a chalf-memory stick over the dusted surface.' - Frank Herbert, 1964. (re: Frank Herbert)

Sensitive, Soft Robot Skin
'...tinted material that had all the feel and appearance of human flesh and epidermis.' - Harl Vincent, 1934. (re: Harl Vincent)

BibleGPT - King James Version Padre Booth, ala Philip K. Dick
Tell me your torments. (re: Philip K Dick)

Finger Sensors For Robot Hands
'What strange sensitivity! What an amazing development of science was manifested in every move and act and word of this Robot!' - Ray Cummings, 1931. (re: Ray Cummings)

LiquidView Ersatz Windows, ala Philip K. Dick
'due to his bad financial situation he had given up trying to imagine that he lived on a great hill with a view...' - Philip K. Dick, 1969. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Omniphobic Liquid-like Surfaces And de Camp's Telelubricator (1940)
'So the surface, to the depth of a few molecules, is put in the condition of a supercooled liquid as long as the beam is focused on it.' - L. Sprague de Camp, 1940. (re: de Camp)

A Vacuum With An Arm - Engineers Create Heinlein's Hired Girl Robot
'Anything larger than a BB shot it picked up and placed in a tray...' - Robert Heinlein, 1956. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Iron Beam Laser Under Development To Shoot Down Missiles With Lasers
'It was sweeping round swiftly and steadily, this flaming death, this invisible, inevitable sword of heat.' - HG Wells, 1989. (re: HG Wells)

Feel The Rhythm, Robots - Especially You Biomimics
Alive with technology. (re: Various)

NASA's Psyche Mission To Metal Asteroid Launches Thursday!
'We can even fuel the space ships and mine the Asteroid Belt for rare metals...' (re: E.C. Tubb)

Peyton Manning's French Bread Olympics - Science Fiction Style
'the inauguration of the helium-filled loaf...' (re: Fritz Leiber)

Tesla's Optimus Robot Now Sorts Objects (I've Got A Job In Mind)
'Then they press one of these here thirteen buttons...' (re: Harry Harrison)

CADRE Robots To Work In Teams On Other Planets
'You're a stable, rock-bottom mining robot, except that you're equipped to handle six subsidiaries in direct coordination...' - Isaac Asimov, 1944. (re: Isaac Asimov)

18 Wheels Mutant Centipede Vehicle
'If a centipede were a dinosaur and made of metal to boot...' - Robert Heinlein, 1950. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Octopus Suckers Inspire Transdermal Patches
'...a capsule which he placed against his wrist.' - Philip K. Dick, 1960. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Robotic Hands Have More Than One Use
'The crawling, exploring object was V-Stephen's surgeon-hand...' - Philip K. Dick, 1955. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Space Weather To Universe Weather
'It radiates outward in a cone which, by the time it has reached our section of space, is many lightyears across.' - Poul Anderson, 1953. (re: Poul Anderson)

That's MOXIE! Terraforming Mars Baby Steps
'Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock.' - Jack Williamson, 1931. (re: Jack Williamson)

'No, I'm Not A Robot' - Robot
'... with a weird simulation of life, the ten forked ends of each arm commenced a rattling pressing of the buttons.' - Schachner and Zagat, 1931. (re: Schachner and Zagat)

Missing Jet Finally Found
Ah, what could have been - still in the future. (re: Roger Zelazny)

Philippines Coast Guard Cuts Chinese Barrier
'Each of the four areas is enclosed by a sonic wall...' (re: Roger Zelazny)

Barista Robot Perfects Latte Swirl With Multi-DOF Wriggle
'It's done with a flip of the third joint of the tentacle on the down beat.' - Anthony Boucher, 1943. (re: Anthony Boucher)

Vendetta 2023 All-Terrain Skateboard Could Use Neal Stephenson's Smartwheels
'If you surf over a bump... If you surf over a pothole...' - Neal Stephenson, 1992. (re: Neal Stephenson)

Safe Street Rebel Autonomous Vehicle Luddites And Schachner's 1931 Robot-Deranger
'Then the spreading beam of the deranging ray struck them, and they stood an instant transfixed...' - Schachner/Zagat, 1931 (re: Schachner and Zagat)

The Electric Balance Bicycle And The Decline Of Western Civilization
'Noiselessly, on rubber-tired wheels, they journeyed...' - David H. Keller, 1928. (re: David H. Keller)

'Droplet' Battery Microscale Power Pack
'...a power pack the size of a pea.' - Alfred Bester, 1956. (re: Alfred Bester)

ARX-5 Doing Robot Arm Dancing
It's Data's day - at last. (re: Fritz Lang)

CD, DVD Bit Rot And PKD's Civic Notification Distorter
'...copy two of the original document no longer can be superimposed on copy one.' - Philip K. Dick, 1965. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Inbiodroid Prometheus 2.0 Telepresence Avatar Robot
My prize robot, tall, dashing would speak and act for me... - Manly Wade Wellman, 1938. (re: Manly Wade Wellman)

Amazon One Is Frank Herbert's Palm Lock
'A palm lock must be keyed to one individual's hand shape and palm lines.' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert)

DroneDog Ground Security Robot Dogs From Asylon
'I have transferred the ego of a dog to a synthetic dog brain in the skull case of a robot dog.' - Otis Adelbert Kline, 1937. (re: Neal Stephenson)

Who Knows What Might Be Found When Visiting A Metal Asteroid?
'...inspect the tiny speck of matter that swam toward them out of the bottomless void.' - Basil Wells, 1942. (re: EC Tubb)

Giant Lunar Surface Test Bed Built On Earth
Astronauts first walked the site, then flew over the site at a few hundred feet in a small Cessna. (re: Various)

FlyCroTug Drones Work In Teams Now
'It slid smoothly out of its cell like a metal wasp emerging from its nest, and hung in midair.' - James P. Hogan, 1979. (re: James P. Hogan)

Zai Pits (West Sahel) And Dew Collectors (Dune)
'Each is planted most tenderly in its own little pit.' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert)

Delivery Robots Being Bullied, Robbed
'Robots have worse problems than anybody.' (A Present for Pat) - Philip K. Dick, 1955. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Zoom Education Idea Is 100 Years Old
'... the frosted glass squares began, one by one, to show the faces and shoulders of a peculiar type of young men.' - Harry Stephen Keeler, 1915. (re: Harry Stephen Keeler)

Unitree H1 General-Purpose Humanoid Robot
'Just what did I want Flexible Frank to do?' - Robert Heinlein, 1956. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Solar X-Flares Disrupt North American Radio And Navigation
'A true cosmic storm!' - Jack Williamson, 1939. (re: Jack Williamson)

Restructure An Asteroid, Spin It, Get A 'Space Habitat' With Gravity?
'When the colony was established, the whole interior was carved out with atomic burners...' - John Campbell, 1932. (re: John Campbell)

Teslas Have Minds, Says Elon Musk
'The machine scans the patterns of the mind; ...Impress these same waves on a robot computer.' - Frederik Pohl, 1955. (re: Frederik Pohl)

Quadruple-Star System Now Forming
'... ravished with joy, I gazed at the giant suns, Arcturus and Betelguese, and the red Antares, and at systems of double and triple and quadruple suns...' - Stanton Coblentz, 1934. (re: Stanton Coblentz)

Are You Ready To Zoom With Dr. ChatGPT?
'Skarwold pushed a switch and Katz’s autodoc sprayed sedative into his lungs.' - Larry Niven, 1965. (re: )

Away Rude Mechanicals! I Want Self-Sensing Variable-Stiffness Artificial Muscles.
'... it is remarkable that the long leverages of their machines are in most cases actuated by a sort of sham musculature.' - HG Wells, 1898. (re: HG Wells)

Machete-Wielding Philodendron Isn't Going To Take It Anymore
'The tree ended its wild larruping, stood like a dreaming giant liable to wake into frenzy at any moment.' - Eric Frank Russell, 1943. (re: Eric Frank Russell)

HOVER Scorpion Speeder Bike!
'I see them! Wait, Leia!' - George Lucas, 1983. (re: George Lucas)

Nuclear Rockets To Fly In Space!
'... the only type of engine which could possibly transport a heavy machine from our earth to some planet, would have to be the atomic-energy engine.' - (re: Robert Heinlein)

Privatized Moon Mining Appeals To Entrepreneurs
'The engineer had judged correctly for the ground on which the space ship had landed consisted of ice...' - Max Valier, 1931. (re: Max Valier)

Do Aliens Have A 'Non-Interference' Prime Directive?
'... it was against the law for our people to visit Earth.' - George Parsons Lathrup, 1897. (re: George Parsons Lathrup (w/T. Edison))

3D Printing In Mid-Air
'It makes drawings in the air...' - Murray Leinster, 1945. (re: Murray Leinster)

Underwater Robot Moves Like A Jellyfish
'It was a chemotactic artificial jellyfish...' - Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling, 1994. (re: Rucker and Sterling)

Earth A Rogue Planet? A Wandering World?
'The larger of the two wandering worlds would strike and annihilate the earth.' (re: Balmer and Wylie)

Collie Dog Suit Fulfills His Dream - Of Walking In Public As A Dog
'The Lon Chaney of the interstellar set.' - Roger Zelazny, 1976. (re: Roger Zelazny)

Solar Panel Cleaning Robots
'... polishing their way the whole length of Rama's six artificial suns.' - Arthur C. Clarke, 1972. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)

Who Needs Asimov's 'Proteus' When You Can Have Pangolins?
'The Proteus was still falling, still shrinking...' - Isaac Asimov, 1966. (re: Isaac Asimov)

Jonathan Swift in 1726 Predicted AI-Generated Crap Overwhelming Amazon In 2023
'...the most ignorant person... might write books... without the least assistance from genius or study.' - Jonathan Swift, 1726. (re: Jonathan Swift)

Queqiao 2 Communications Relay Satellite Will Support Lunar Missions
'The Venus Equilateral Relay Station was a modern miracle of engineering...' - George O. Smith, 1942. (re: George O. Smith)

Ancient Cuneiform Texts Translated By AI - Sort Of
"I believe they're trying to communicate with us..." - Schachner and Zagat, 1931. (re: Various)

'Warrior Suit' Combat Exoskeleton Project Still Alive
'Suited up, you look like a big steel gorilla.' (re: Robert Heinlein)

Mori3 Flat Modular Robot Unpacks, Comes Alive
An origami-like robot that can change shape, move around and interact with objects and people. (re: Various)

Self-Powered Piezoelectric Nanotattoos
'...she has had a subdermal pattern of micro-channels implanted.' - Paul Di Filippo, 1985. (re: Paul Di Filippo)

Varda Space Industries Orbital Factories
'... work summers in their orbital factory complex.' - Jerry Pournelle, 1976. (re: Jerry Pournelle)

Who Needs Dogs? Trained Bees Detect Explosives
'The directing neurological tissue that forms the basis of the swibble is alive...' - Philip K Dick, 1955. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Space Hotel Will Have Artificial Gravity By 2025
'The cylinder whirls constantly, with such speed that the centrifugal force against the sides equals the force of gravity on the earth.' - Jack Williamson, 1931. (re: Jack Williamson)

Seeing Two Seconds Into The Future
'...not a record of what you did just now but what will go on here in the next half hour.' - Philip K. Dick, 1964. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Calico Wearable Robot Like Robert Forward's Imp
'The imps go into the spacesuit with the humans...'- Robert Forward, 1985. (re: Robert Forward)

Dyson Zone Face Filter-Mask May Have A Point After all
'If this job's likely to involve me in frequent trips to LA I'm going to have to buy a filter-mask.' - John Brunner, 1972. (re: John Brunner)

Solar Power Transmitted From Orbit Down To Earth
'The Power Planet, of course, is that vast man-made disk of metal set spinning about the sun to supply the Earth with power...' - Murray Leinster, 1931. (re: Murray Leinster)

Laser-Wielding Weeding Robot Rules In Densely Planted Chard
'The mirror-blossom was a terrible weapon.' - Larry Niven, 1965. (re: Larry Niven)

AI Tutors For Every Child - Thanks, DARPA!
'...fullest attention to the visions and voices which were poured directly in to his mind.' - James Blish, 1951. (re: James Blish)

Government In-Home Surveillance - Yes! Say Third Of Under-30 Adults
'The TV screen flicked to show a kitchen.' - Pournelle and Niven, 1981. (re: Pournelle and Niven)

ESTHER Tennis Robot V. Fact (1934) And Fiction (1952)
'THE red tennis robot scooted desperately across the court...' - HB Fyfe, 1952. (re: HB Fyfe)

Japan's LignoSat Space Wood Satellite And Dan Simmons' Treeship
'The Consul remembered his first glimpse of the kilometer-long treeship...' - Dan Simmons, 1989. (re: Dan Simmons)

Skyline Robotics Instantiates Heinlein's 'Window Willie' Skyscraper Robot
'Do you know what window washing used to cost by the hour?' - Robert Heinlein, 1956. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Drone Bombings In Moscow Foreseen 100 Years Ago
'Once the target is confirmed, it uses an IR laser to send a coded signal back to the parent, clearing it to attack.' - Daniel Suarez, 2012. (re: Daniel Suarez)

I Didn't Know You Can Already Buy Flesh Putty
'I filled your bullet hole with flesh putty and the lattice.' (re: Nick Harkaway)

'A Sign in Space' Gives Practice In Decoding ET Messages
'... it will be easy to form an alphabet which shall enable us to converse with the inhabitants of the moon.' - Jules Verne, 1867. (re: Jules Verne)

Melting Permafrost Endangers Infrastructure
'From the tower's huge octagonal base radiate wide silvery strips...' - Robert Silverberg, 1970. (re: Robert Silverberg)

EELS Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor For Enceladus
'It was about five feet long... a black bullet head and red camera eyes.' - Susan Brownstone, 2012. (re: Susan Brownstone)

Lazy Lawyer's Trust In ChatGPT Misplaced
'The Law Society has strict rules on the use of pseudo-intelligent software...' - Greg Egan, 1991. (re: Greg Egan)

Paradromics Implant FDA 'Breakthrough Device'
'I used my implant to tell MILLIE what we wanted...' - Pournelle and Niven, 1981. (re: Pournelle and Niven)

Mice, At Least, Can Sober Up Quickly
'Then draw some aldodote-vitamin pills from the medic.' - H. Beam Piper, 1962. (re: H. Beam Piper)

Is It Time For Lunar Farside Telescopes?
'Mount Ambarzumian Observatory, on Farside.' - Poul Anderson, 1958. (re: Poul Anderson)

Spaceflight Vertigo Solved By NASA Releasing The Kraken
"I threw up in my helmet." (re: Various)

TM-62 Loitering Ground Landmine
Runaway movie comes to life! (re: Michael Crichton)

Helpful Robots In Science Fiction
'If you douse me again... I'm donating you to a city college.' - Iron Man, 2008. (re: Marvel)

Lunar Pogo Stick - Retro Technovelgy From 1968
'Lucky touched the leap knob...' - Isaac Asimov, 1954. (re: Isaac Asimov)

MIT And Rice Create Blade Runner Photo Analysis
Rick Deckard, your photo analysis is ready. (re: Ridley Scott)

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