Tag: Science Fiction

• Head cannon: Wallace & Grommit

  New head cannon: Wallace & Grommit, far from the 1970s it appears to be set in, is a wildly transhumanist future. This is why they could build a moon rocket and go to the moon over the course of a bank holiday weekend, and why when they got there they could breathe, eat the ground,…

  kitsunesoftware

  February 20, 2023

  Fiction, Humour, Opinion, SciFi, Transhumanism

  headcannon, Opinion, rockets, Science Fiction

• Trek head-cannon

  In the real world, the “vaporise” setting in SciFi ray-guns comes from a desire to make extras disappear quickly when their characters are killed off. As countless of pedants have noticed, a real-life weapon which vaporised a target would have all sorts of unpleasant side-effects, from the merely icky of inhaling your enemies to the…

  kitsunesoftware

  June 28, 2020

  Fiction, SciFi

  Fiction, headcannon, Notes, Personal, Science Fiction, Star Trek

• Sufficient technology

  Let’s hypothesise sufficient brain scans. As far as I know, we don’t have better than either very low resolution full-brain imaging (millions of synapses per voxel), or very limited high resolution imaging (thousands of synapses total), at least not for living brains. Let’s just pretend for the sake of argument that we have synapse-resolution full-brain…

  kitsunesoftware

  March 6, 2020

  Futurology, Minds, Philosophy, Politics, SciFi, Technology, Transhumanism

  AI, brain science, brains, consciousness, ethics, futurism, Futurology, mind uploading, morality, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Technological Singularity, Technology, theory of mind, Transhumanism, wild speculation

• Sapiens Plurum contest entry

  This was my entry into the 2019 Sapiens Plurum short story contest. In news which will shock precisely nobody, as this was my first attempt at writing a short story for a contest, not only did it totally fail to win, it didn’t even get an honourable mention. “‘Save the world’, dad said”

  kitsunesoftware

  July 30, 2019

  Fiction

  Science Fiction, short story, stories

• Mote of smartdust

  Matthew beheld not the mote of smartdust in his own eye, for it was hiding itself from his view with advanced magickal trickery. His brother Luke beheld the mote, yet within his brother’s eye was a beam of laser light that blinded him just as surely. Luke went to remove the mote of dust in…

  kitsunesoftware

  February 16, 2018

  Fiction, Humour

  Science, Science Fiction, stories, Technology, vision

• Megastructures

  Megastructures are big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big they are. I mean, you may think you live in a big city, but that’s just peanuts to even the smallest megastructure. Three of the more famous megastructures: A Halo installation: 10,000 km by 318 km (¹) A Culture Orbital: 3,000,000…

  kitsunesoftware

  January 3, 2017

  SciFi, Video

  Dyson sphere, Halo, megastructures, Ringworld, Science Fiction, Size comparison, The Culture, Video