Every 20 years, Jupiter and Saturn are in position for a gravity assist, which allows you to reach half the outer solar system. In the 1970s, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were all in the right half.

Yes, there are quite a few anti-AI projects. https://old.reddit.com/r/badphilosophy/wiki/index

The classic Slow Tuesday Night (1965) by R. A. Lafferty. Sort of post-singularity. I liked the part where they use an AI-assisted ghostwriting machine to spit out a scholarly text in seconds. (People who buy it just read the quick summary.)

https://www.ralafferty.org/works/stories/slow-tuesday-night/

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Slow+Tuesday+Night

Vaguely similar but slower: Vernor Vinge's Fast Times At Fairmont High and Rainbows End. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5393037-fast-times-at-fa...

THANK YOU! That was it.

The hive mind never sleeps. ;-)

He may have been saying Quaeso Te, Non! -- plain vanilla latin for "I beg you, no!"

March 1926 to October 1957 -- It only took us 31 years to get to orbit. And 5 more years to get to Venus.

If only ST:TAS hadn't given us the Holodeck... IMHO TNG would have been better without the holodeck episodes.

Ditto the 1982 Lenell Geter case -- he was sent to prison based on a faulty witness ID. https://www.LenellGeter.com/Content/About/ -- https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/4406

In different states, police use cognitive aptitude tests such as the Wonderlic -- https://jobdescriptionandresumeexamples.com/10-important-fac... -- https://www.practice4me.com/lst-police-exam/ -- these are not strictly 'IQ' tests, but they're very similar.

The Wonderlic might as well be an IQ test (I'm using the term "general cognitive test").

The LST isn't; it's a domain-specific occupational exam.

If you find a place that (1) uses the Wonderlic and (2) has recently (like, not all the way back in 2000) claimed there was a high-end cut-off for applicants, you'll have disproven my claim. I don't think giving general cognitive tests to prospective police officers is common; this is why there are things like the LST, the PELLETB, and the POST.

> The Automobile makes cities less pleasant to live in

In 1900, there was a major manure crisis in all large european and north american cities. The swarms of flies were inescapable.

Although certainly the new roads required by increased population caused disruption.

Dilbert's take on 'random' number generators: https://www.random.org/analysis/dilbert.jpg