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I thought this would be a fun post for all of us literature enthusiasts!
In the USAF, we put in for assignments of where we want to go. My class has decided that for a slideshow presentation we're doing, we're not listing our REAL dreamsheet, but a fantasy one.
I've listed my top 3 destinations as: 1) Hogwarts 2) The Prancing Pony 3) Jupiter Mining Ship Red Dwarf
If YOU had to choose your most wild, fantastic destination (job or tourism), where would you go??
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Yeah, but think about the COOOOOL subjects you could study!! I'd rather study transfiguration or DADA any day of the week, than what I'm currently studying!
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Transfiguration would be fun, though I've never understood why anyone would need to turn a porcupine into a teapot. I keep waiting for them to turn a raven into a writing desk.
But having to take potions does not sound fun. And then there's the constant risk of death or petrification.
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Are you sure about coruscant? there were much nicer places during the old republic. And just think of the traffic.
I'd go with 1) The abandoned Massassi temple on Yavin 4 in 11 A.B.Y. 2) The Vessel Soja 3) A desolate planet exactly like Earth with no intelligent species on it besides me and my wife.
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The Yukon River from Michener's Alaska when they hear the river freeze solid and then when it breaks in thaw, and in between, riding a bike down the middle of it.
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There are lots of other places in the Star Wars universe that look more appealing to me than Coruscant. All that constant traffic would make me nervous.
Actually, I'd like to have a look at Corellia, which is a planet we haven't seen yet. I can't help but wonder what it's like.
I'd also like to see Komarr, from the Lois McMaster Bujold series about Miles Vorkosigan.
Darkover would be interesting, too, but which place on it? Not the Space Port, of course. Hali, perhaps.
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I really want to learn null-g battle tactics in Battle School with Ender and the gang.
I would also like to visit Camelot, as a "Guest Knight" of the round table.
I think it would be fun to visit mars as seen by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and jump distances of hundreds of feet at a time with John Carter, and learn martian sword fighting.
Lastly, as an extra, I would like to see the "upper levels" of existance as portrayed in Stephen King's "Insomnia", with all the multi-colored halos and the little doctor versions of random and ordered Grim Reapers.
quote: Lastly, as an extra, I would like to see the "upper levels" of existance as portrayed in Stephen King's "Insomnia", with all the multi-colored halos and the little doctor versions of random and ordered Grim Reapers.
I wouldn't recommend that one. It being a Stephen King story, you'd have to forget about it all immediately afterwards. What would the point be?
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1. The Shire. It sounds peaceful. 2. Onboard the Millenium Falcon. Its just cool. 3. Hyrule, perhaps.
I dont think I have put too much thought into this before...its an interesting idea. If we had a "people to meet" I could go on FOREVER. I just want to be some place thats warm enough, and has nice folk about. Simple stuff.
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Well, apparently they don't have USAF officer liasons at the Prancing Pony or Hogwarts... so they're sending me to South Carolina instead (Sumter).
quote:you'd have to forget about it all immediately afterwards. What would the point be?
This introduces a profound question, which is the more valuable the experience itself in its full reality or the kowledge gained from the experience when it is no more than a memory? in terms of having one without the other which would you choose? (were this in some way a possibility)
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the latter would be impossible without the first, however you could have many experiences without learning a thing.
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Think more multidimensionally and the for the sake of comparison accept the possibility that the latter could occur without the first. Perhaps you have a chip installed to your brain which you can download knowledge to, without having to get the experience, or some such explanation.
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Well, if we ever got to the point where it was possible to implant complete memories (as in Total Recall), then you could have the memories without the experience.
In that case, the actual experience would be more valuable, because you could then brag to your friends that you actually did something, instead of just having the memories implanted.
But, in a way, we already do have memory implantation. Just one example: By using leading questions, child abuse investigators have succeeded in creating false memories in children. Innocent people have spent years in jail thanks to implanted memories.
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Actually, they've replicated this effect in the lab. They did a SA Frontiers where a couple of guys implanted false memories into Alan Alda. It was pretty cool, they just used snapshots of things similar to things he'd actually experienced, and repeatedly questioned him on whether he'd actually seen this or only seen the picture. Initially he could tell whether he'd actually experienced something, but after a few rounds he couldn't reliably tell the difference anymore.
Combine this with some already established brain washing techniques (drugs, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation and temporal disorientation, etc.) and I bet you could get some really astonishing effects.
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