Nearly two millennia before Jules Verne and H. G. Wells started writing about science fiction, Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian satirist, and rhetorician, introduced the world to science fiction, envisioning a future where humankind would find alien life, take place in interplanetary warfare, and come to know artificial life among other things.

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Here's an Ancient Novel About Aliens, UFOs, and Robots Written in the 2nd Century — Curiosmos

During the second century AD, a writer called Lucian of Samosata wrote about traveling to the moon, alien life, ufos, robots and artificial intelligence.

Mother Nature does have a sense of humor

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I have been trying to warn people about this for a few years. Just because a firm says they do not record you IP and browser usage it does not mean that they will not start recording it when asked by the police. You must be very very careful of VPNs

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ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities – TechCrunch

ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism after a police report showed that French authorities managed to obtain the IP address of a French activist who was using the online serv

"1977 Pontiac Phantom, the last car designed by Bill Mitchell, one of the automobile industry’s best known designers."

Looks like a Toronado 2.0. Cool lookin'.

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1977 Pontiac Phantom, the Last Car Designed by Bill Mitchell, One of the Automobile Industry’s Best Known Designers ~ Vintage Everyday

The Pontiac Phantom (also called the General Motors Phantom and given the internal code name “Madame X”) is a concept car created by General...