And don't worry - the setting does include full-sensory VR and lifelike android bodies, so she can still run around in her previous ratty form whenever the mood strikes her. She'll just have her brain located elsewhere when she does...
*Reads the new Rationality matters* Have you or Karno read Genocide Man?
Personally I think the best way to counter super-plagues resulting from DIY biology would be to use the same tech to create vaccines as soon as they emerge.
*Reads the new Rationality matters* Have you or Karno read Genocide Man? Personally I think the bes
There's a constant race between technologies that improve attack and ones that improve defense; while we can work as hard as possible on the latter, it's possible that destroying is inherently easier than preserving. (Eg, there aren't too many ways to defend against a nuke...)
There's a constant race between technologies that improve attack and ones that improve defense; whil
I'm not too concerned about nukes, uranium-235 and plutonium aren't exactly common. But I personally could cook up some multiple antibiotic-resistant Black Death in my kitchen with present day technology, I might even be able to produce a super-flu virus (though I have no experience with viruses). But at most any epidemic I create might last a couple weeks before someone found an antibiotic without a resistance plasmid in the biotech catalogs or inject a sample of my virus into a bunch of chicken eggs and harvest the result as a vaccine.
I'm not too concerned about nukes, uranium-235 and plutonium aren't exactly common. But I personally
You might enjoy reading a forthcoming novel which covers some details along very similar lines: the first of a new "Black Tide Rising" series, "Under a Graveyard Sky" by John Ringo.
You might enjoy reading a forthcoming novel which covers some details along very similar lines: the
Dee's just glad that she and the rest of the Nakama are fighting on their home turf, which gives them the home-field advantage... like playing combat engineer and rigging just about everything to blow up on command (among other tricks), giving them the chance to apply lots of battlefield management to redirect the assassins into the best possible combat zone.
Dee's just glad that she and the rest of the Nakama are fighting on their home turf, which gives the
And my first thought on reading this is, A View From The Gallery! Who does maintenance on the Eichsfeldian colony, anyway? Are you going with my story on that?
And my first thought on reading this is, A View From The Gallery! ( http://babylon5.epguides.info/?I
I'm afraid I don't remember the specifics - but I do recall mentioning something along the lines that whenever you want to write a story based around Dee and her setting, I'll be more than happy to let you. :)
I'm afraid I don't remember the specifics - but I do recall mentioning something along the lines tha
