On: Fractal planting patterns yield optimal harvests, ...

[std_throwaway]

This is how visitors from other planets look at us in regard to resource distribution on earth and space exploration.

[api → std_throwaway]

Game theory should be taught in high school.

[chongli → api]

If we discover that aliens actually exist and present an existential risk then the game will change. We'll effectively be drafted into team Earth.

[raymondh → chongli]

So, your prediction for Game of Thrones is that the White Walkers will bring about peace and unity to the competing factions of the Seven Kingdoms ;-)

[chongli → raymondh]

That was the exact thought I had when the White Walkers made their first appearance in the book!

[rusk → chongli]

Little reckoning the far wider existential threat of GRRM abandoning altogether and the universe simply ceasing to exist ...

[ferongr → std_throwaway]

The "aliens watching us" meme is overused and tiring to see. The aliens could actually be unable to perceive their existence. Or their civilization could be an ancap paradise/nightmare. Or a an authoritarian, communist dystopia. Or they could be nuanced enough to understand why things ended up happening the way they do.

[rusk → ferongr]

Whatever it is they are however, they're doubtless more advanced if it's they watching us.