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In reply to the discussion: We should have been colonizing the solar system by now. [View all]Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)We got tired of his trying to make every and I mean every conversation about firearms generally or the Second Amendment in particular, so we made a chatbot with his name that would do the same thing more or less by spitting out a collection of stock phrases set off by different triggers. Took one of the guys a couple days to write it up and we unleashed it.
Surprisingly, he actually got the hint and mellowed out quite a bit.
And yeah, I've run into the general stack-o-cliches myself. Was doing a seminar paper on the Soviet space program (and to a lesser extent Russian attitudes on spaceflight) and a few of the other students just wouldn't get off weaponization or the menace of polluting the pristine environment of space with lethal radiation. Yeeeeah. Having to talk about stuff that happened decades prior while also dealing with classmates expressing horror at the existence of the technologies in the first place was a bit taxing.
A year or so before there was a Cassini protest at my university, which was weird because that was well after the Earth flyby. They also used the "polluting the pristine environment of space with lethal radiation" thing, only verbatim and without irony. I never could get a straight answer concerning what they wanted to do about the thing, given it was out around Jupiter at the time, but did get some vague lines about wanting to kill the "tens of billions" of dollars of funding for it.