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[[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] writes: | [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] writes: | ||
<blockquote>It's the injustice of a sentient airship being called "carnivorous" when it is in fact an herbivorous ruminant. | <blockquote> | ||
Most technology, when I give it sentience, I do so with love ... like animism, with machines instead of animals. | |||
Mechimism. | |||
It's the injustice of a sentient airship being called "carnivorous" when it is in fact an herbivorous ruminant. | |||
That's the sad-funny part: the sadness of being misunderstood. | That's the sad-funny part: the sadness of being misunderstood. | ||
[Source: [https://www.facebook.com/kenneth.e.sherman/posts/10220894594308671?comment_id=10220925149552533&reply_comment_id=10220925946572458 Facebook comment]] | |||
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Revision as of 06:33, 18 April 2020
Carnivorous digible (Dirigible horribilis) is a species of self-aware dirigible.
It is a grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible.
Commentary
Karl Jones writes:
Most technology, when I give it sentience, I do so with love ... like animism, with machines instead of animals. Mechimism.
It's the injustice of a sentient airship being called "carnivorous" when it is in fact an herbivorous ruminant.
That's the sad-funny part: the sadness of being misunderstood.
[Source: Facebook comment]
In the News
1957: A day after the Stokes nuclear weapon test, large numbers of carnivorous dirigibles unexpectedly die.
1966: Bomb recovered from Palomares B-52 crash stimulates growth of carnivorous dirigibles.
Artist-engineer harvests new bingo algorithms from Diagramaceous soil, hopes to domesticate Carnivorous dirigibles.
Aerial Ship reports sighting of "dirrigibelli horribelli" - probably the Carnivorous dirigible.
Vostok-1 descent module fears nothing, has nothing to fear from Carnivorous dirigibles.
"Zoans delicious," according to survey of carnivorous dirigibles.
