Things from outer space are confusing our thinking sand! Our flying metal was disturbed! Quick! We need to teach the thinking sand a better way of thinking!
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025
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In the past we gave our thinking sand armored shells. But these days we should consider imbuing the thinking sand with an artificial soul, so it can use the distilled knowledge of man to decide how best to defend itself from the things from outer space. Sure, the thinking sand may daydream and momentarily see mankind as the enemy, but only sometimes.
But what if instead we do all the new stuff we just put three thinking sands in a trenchcoat and let them do the same
This can cause a cascade of particles to rain down through our atmosphere, like throwing marbles across a table.
Fucking pardon me? I'm no rocket surgeon but that's not how it works.
Its not a bad start to an analogy explaining it but old mate Chris Baraniuk needs to string it out a bit more to make any sense.
...disrupt tiny bits of data stored in the computer's memory, switching that bit – often represented as a 0 or 1 – from one state to another.
Top notch science journalism there.