Re: XKCD: Paging Doc Smith

ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan wrote:

https://xkcd.com/2938/

This showed up in comments on a thread in the Comics I Don't Understand
site, to which some brilliant and knowledgeable contributor replied:


In the Revelation Space series of SF stories by Alastair Reynolds, the
Inhibitors are a race of machines that work to prevent emergent species
from expanding though space. The reason is that if will make it easier
to get the galaxy through the upcoming collision with Andromeda, in
some 3 billion years.

Reynolds has a PhD in astrophysics.

https://cidu.info/2024/05/26/sunday-funnies-lols-may-26th-2024/


Brian