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As an example of progress in digital technology, IBM produced a semiconductor chip with the smallest transistors ever made. The new 2-nanometer (nm) measure allows the company to fit a staggering 50 billion transistors onto an approximately 1/4” sized wafer. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

Mass shooters must be the laziest people on the planet, they usually work close to home, their victims are selected by random convenience, they are never in great physical shape or carry a heavy weapon, and… they will never have to get a job or work again. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

As the most brilliant, successful and super famous scientist in the world, his busy mind had become so overwhelmed by unparalleled notoriety, that now, it was easy to forget to shut down the extremely high temperature acetylene gas burners in his laboratory. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

An attacker can be hidden anywhere in the original hardware fabrication materials, some can tunnel through safe zones in any one of fifteen billion transistors, every layer must be searched, it’s like going through every book on the planet to find a doodle. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

Hardware for crypto mining requires expensive application-specific integrated circuits. No general purpose chips! Difficulty increases by the number of miners mining and the computing power required to mine new blocks, this takes what is called "block time". #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

There must be one of them so powerful that if the thing ever escapes, we will not have the chance to shelter, no time to prep or gear-up, no warnings, no bulletin, no five o’clock news story, no investigation and no one brought to account for their actions. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

That precocious and brilliant little boy never told anyone that he used his careless tech nerd neighbor’s discarded laboratory equipment to build camera enabled robots small enough to roam through ant colonies in his yard and anywhere else they wanted to go. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

Dead Hand is a nuclear weapons-control system that can automatically initiate the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM’s) by sending a pre-entered highest-authority order if any strike is detected… even if the command is completely destroyed. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

They discovered that area of the galaxy was like 52nd and Broadway, proto-sim-human traffic and cargo ships from thousands of planets cluttered every space-way without an auto-flow control to open the shipping lanes, and we were trapped somewhere in between. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

The AI program, through no fault of its own, had retrieved the wrong node because of a hardware defect that was not detected during all of the many deep foundry scans and thermal manufacturing tests, and now it would enable false alarms to destroy the world. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

It was depressing to learn that a potential lifetime of wealth had been diverted for the construction of an unused pedestrian bridge, one fifth of a sports stadium, a small downtown parking lot, four parade floats and a box of special pens for the president. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

There were many security challenges requiring visitors to run through a maze of imminent data obstacles to release information from open gates, like fanning through pages of schematics to trace a path through all the atomic layers of a nano sized wafer chip. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

The moment he stepped out on the dark web there was a feeling of someone’s strong, cold hand on his shoulder, not exactly resting or forcefully directing, but rather as an alternative awareness, knowing there were no safety nets between the web and the abyss. #ScFi #Fiction #DARQ

The space visitors exist in a different time frame than us. They have been arguing in their courts for decades about letting us continue down our fascinating though destructive path, or to end it, mining the earth as planned, to completely remove its mantle. #Fiction #SciFi #DARQ

From a study by the Journal of #Gambling Studies… the more wins, the less money collected. That is, multiple wins are likely to yield smaller stakes, and a need to play more, the more played, the more likely a player will eventually have a substantial loss. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

It was like pulling back the curtain on a sadly defeated old actor. The program did not have the power to translate “x, y, z” protocol line by line. Without an active time-lock key, it could not follow a simple mark location request. Rescue would be delayed. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

As an example of progress in digital technology, IBM produced a semiconductor chip with the smallest transistors ever made. The new 2-nanometer (nm) measure allows the company to fit a staggering 50 billion transistors onto an approximately 1/4” sized wafer. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

The new weapons are impressive, one right out of an old comic book can instantly freeze an entire city to absolute zero, the other is based on cutting-edge technology and like a very large chip maker, lasers reduce battleships to small pieces in seconds. #Fiction #SciFi #DARQ #AI

One universal rule seen playing out today states that all beings who are intelligent enough to change and manipulate their world in extreme ways will eventually create enough awesomely complex and unsolvable problems that they will always destroy themselves. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ

There have always been alternative organic materials available to take the place of petroleum based plastics in order to avoid contaminating the Earth with “forever” fluoropolymers that can only breakdown into micro particles that now fill our water and air. #SciFi #Fiction #DARQ