Christopher Priest 1943 – 2024

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“You never understood, why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It’s miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you... then you got to see something really special... you really don’t know?... it was... it was the look on their faces..”. - From his work, The Prestige

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British speculative fiction writer

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Gary Graham Dies: ‘Alien Nation’ & ‘Star Trek’ Actor Was 73

An Actor Who Appeared On a LOT of TV Science Fiction Shows

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Gary Graham Dead: 'Alien Nation' & 'Star Trek' Actor Was 73

Gary Graham, an actor who appeared in dozens of TV roles but will be best remembered for his place in the Alien Nation and Star Trek universes, has died. He was 73. His death was announced by his e…

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Love #DouglasAdams!

I was recently told by a volunteer at a local "natural" cemetery (bodies are buried with only biodegradable shrouds and/or all wood coffins) that 42-inches is the perfect depth for a grave. Deeper and decomposition is hindered. Shallower and leakage & critters become a problem. I'm not making this up!

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#Heat #death of the #universe? Maybe not… 🤔

Quote: “ #Life is a special form of #complexity: It has the ability to create more complexity and to maintain #organization against the tendency toward #disorder. In a universe expanding without limit, the ability of #intelligent life to continually construct #complex order may not be limited by the #laws of #thermodynamics in the way once imagined.”

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The ‘Heat Death’ Of The Universe Isn’t Guaranteed

New interpretations of the laws of thermodynamics suggest the famed “heat death” hypothesis, which foretells the end of all complexity and organization in the universe, might not hold.

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