Apophysis Fractal Flame Editor - for Designing Electric Sheep Genomes to Turn Loose Into Cyber-Space for Evolution
I still find myself fascinated by Electric Sheep. Recently I took some time to figure out how to make them and place them into the collective flock. It might sound complex to design an Electric Sheep Genome but with freely available software for Linux and Windows it's easy. You can turn out some quite beautiful images. Moreover, when they are released into the ElectricSheep.org Project they will appear on hundreds of thousands of people's screen savers. Additionally, they will EVOLVE-BREED-CHANGE-LIVE-DIE. This is the true beauty of them.
I am from approximately two months in the future. On 10/22 at approx 2:34am CET a tachyon
field failure in the main resonating ring of the LHC causes a "temporal blowback". Shortly
thereafter, the resulting destruction of the strong nuclear force causes the world to vaporize in
seconds, while a few of us near the experiment are thrown into a temporal causality loop. While
the predestination event (or as we have come to call it "The Big Rewind") hasn't occurred yet to
you, for us it is about three years in our past. I came across your site looking to see if there
were any other scientists that may have theorized this phenomenon who may be of assistance in
preventing it. This brings me to my point, I have repeatedly checked your site for the past five
rewinds at 2:34:01 CET and it still says nope, believe me at this point the LHC has most assuredly
destroyed the world. I can provide a bank account in Nigeria for the funds to be placed. I am
curious to the exact amount however.
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When Robots Dream Do They Dream of Electric Sheep?
A short time ago I was talking with a friend about the recent passing of Arthur C. Clarke. I was fascinated by this man's ideas. He had very realistic long term thinking. Much of his fiction has since turned into reality as we know it. Well, while talking to this friend we somehow got talking about fractals, which Clark described as the "Thumbprint of God." I remembered a documentary he did on fractals and watched it again on google video (link to it at end of story). When Arthur Clarke left this planet we lost a man who pointed us to some fantastic destinations. The destinations just within this one topic are mind boggling. I urge you to check this out.
Linux 
John,
Hello,
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When Robots Dream Do They Dream of Electric Sheep?