The Other Side of Midnight - Richard C. Hoagland - Live Chat Thread

[JSchool]

Richard:  "Tonight we welcome Elon Musk.  Inventor, business tycoon, and clean energy revolutionary.  Welcome, Elon!"

Elon:  "Thanks for having me on, Richard."

Richard:  "So what do you think of the past lives of Arthur C Clark?"

Elon: "Well that's not really my..."

Richard:  "When Arthur and I were on a boat in the Bahamas, he massaged me with a coconut.

Elon:  "Yeah.  About electric cars...:

Richard:  "Wait wait!"

Elon: *Waits*

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Richard: "Cronkite."

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

At what point are these guests going to realize that RCH isn't an expert on anything?

Sacrilege...    Sacrilege...   Put him into the iron Maiden.
LOL 

[SaucyRossy]

Have the technical issues still been plaguing Richard's show? They cleaned them up pretty well on MITD, but I just heard three in a short amount of time.

This is all very unusual, every guests skype are tested well ahead of time, are best guess is the time of night and the amount of people at the same time.

[SciFiAuthor]

Richard:  "Tonight we welcome Elon Musk.  Inventor, business tycoon, and clean energy revolutionary.  Welcome, Elon!"

Elon:  "Thanks for having me on, Richard."

Richard:  "So what do you think of the past lives of Arthur C Clark?"

Elon: "Well that's not really my..."

Richard:  "When Arthur and I were on a boat in the Bahamas, he massaged me with a coconut.

Elon:  "Yeah.  About electric cars...:

Richard:  "Wait wait!"

Elon: *Waits*

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Richard: "Cronkite."

Spit my drink across the room reading that.

[trostol]

Richard:  "Tonight we welcome Elon Musk.  Inventor, business tycoon, and clean energy revolutionary.  Welcome, Elon!"

Elon:  "Thanks for having me on, Richard."

Richard:  "So what do you think of the past lives of Arthur C Clark?"

Elon: "Well that's not really my..."

Richard:  "When Arthur and I were on a boat in the Bahamas, he massaged me with a coconut.

Elon:  "Yeah.  About electric cars...:

Richard:  "Wait wait!"

Elon: *Waits*

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Richard: "Cronkite."

ha ha ha ha ha

[Juan Cena]

That could be true. Even Niven was obsolete from the start. The ringworld is physically impossible and Dyson's idea was actually a Dyson swarm instead of a sphere. One thing that Richard has no grasp whatsoever of is nanotechnology. It's not even on his radar, which is why he sounds so ridiculous and dated in his futurism.

Jack Kirby was a self-taught artist with no higher educational experience, but he even his ideas of SF tech were way more advanced than what RCH thinks.

Glass dome on the Moon? Heck no! There was a place on the Moon left behind by aliens that had its own atmosphere!

[malachi.martini]

Academics really don't know how to have fun do they?

[zeebo]

Dragonriders of Pern vs. HAL?  This does not compute.

[bateman]

Richard:  "Tonight we welcome Elon Musk.  Inventor, business tycoon, and clean energy revolutionary.  Welcome, Elon!"

Elon:  "Thanks for having me on, Richard."

Richard:  "So what do you think of the past lives of Arthur C Clark?"

Elon: "Well that's not really my..."

Richard:  "When Arthur and I were on a boat in the Bahamas, he massaged me with a coconut.

Elon:  "Yeah.  About electric cars...:

Richard:  "Wait wait!"

Elon: *Waits*

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Richard: "Cronkite."

Excellent, but forgot the "hellllllll-o?"

[trostol]

this guy sounds like the BBQ guy on PBS named Franklin lol

[TigerLily]

This lady sounds like Mickey Mouse at double speed. Sorry, Baapsters. I can do no more.  I will rest up for next week. Sweet Dreams.

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO7nFEmTKgE

[SciFiAuthor]

Jack Kirby was a self-taught artist with no higher educational experience, but he even his ideas of SF tech were way more advanced than what RCH thinks.

Glass dome on the Moon? Heck no! There was a place on the Moon left behind by aliens that had its own atmosphere!

An advanced nanotech society doesn't even need an atmosphere any more than Voyager II needed one. Technology doesn't care about breathing and when you merge with your technology, well, atmospheres are frivolous.

[norland2424]

This lady sounds like Mickey Mouse at double speed. Sorry, Baapsters. I can do no more.  I will rest up for next week. Sweet Dreams.

braaaps and goodnight

[trostol]

This lady sounds like Mickey Mouse at double speed. Sorry, Baapsters. I can do no more.  I will rest up for next week. Sweet Dreams.

night night

[Juan Cena]

Um Hoagie, I think you forgot about Ursula K. ...

RCH: Girls who write sci-fi? Ewwwww!

[malachi.martini]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO7nFEmTKgE

THE GREATEST RPG EVER MADE.

[kingotnw]

THE GREATEST RPG EVER MADE.

The original team is now working on a soon to be released follow up! It's going to be awesome!

[malachi.martini]

The original team is now working on a soon to be released follow up! It's going to be awesome!

Backed it.

[Mild Bill]

This lady sounds like Mickey Mouse at double speed. Sorry, Baapsters. I can do no more.  I will rest up for next week. Sweet Dreams.

Braapin' dreams. Rest up for Art's News Monday.

[bateman]

I think someone just dropped a phone book.

[pate]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/similitude

[Juan Cena]

An advanced nanotech society doesn't even need an atmosphere any more than Voyager II needed one. Technology doesn't care about breathing and when you merge with your technology, well, atmospheres are frivolous.

The Skrulls were never the sharpest tools in the Marvel Universe in the first place. Reed Richards tricked them into stopping their plans to invade Earth by convincing them we had super-weapons of mass destruction far beyond anything they had...using comic books! 

[kingotnw]

https://torment.inxile-entertainment.com

Website for the new game.

[pate]

I love similitude, dude...

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

This lady sounds like Mickey Mouse at double speed. Sorry, Baapsters. I can do no more.  I will rest up for next week. Sweet Dreams.

Braaps TigerLily

Catch you on the flip side.

[I really like that avatar]

[kingotnw]

Backed it.

Me too! Lol

[popple]

Several million times, Richard? lol Pixel by pixel.

[trostol]

i got lost some where in this conversation

[pate]

Zombies and spinoff.

Like Peas and Carrots...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTka_QW1FL0