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Starship by Brian W. Aldiss, (although you already have a ton of good suggestions here) The inhabitants of Starship are definitely post-technology, but maybe not by choice.
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supported!
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the more mundane explanation (according to the article) is a calibration error. what is it going to be then? of course the universe-in-a-black-hole is much sexier :)
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I agree. Good joke indeed! (But I feaer he might not have intended this as a joke)
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This Altman clown needs a thorough reality check. Or even better a long and cozy stay in a mental health clinic, with lots of cold baths and maybe some electrical current applied to those parts that only men have.
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True. I believe that with regard to the "purpose" or evolutionary advantage presented buy the tusk, its sensitvity to underwater acoustics is the best explanation. Everything else, as you mention in the short video, is less likely.
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I read that whales that use echolocation use the "melon" to emit sound and their jawbone to receive the echoes. A very long tusk/tooth full of nerves and attached to the jawbone could therefore drastically increase sensitivity to returning echoes and underwater acoustics in general.
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I think you look a little bit like Dustin Hoffman in this picture. Might be the glasses and the posture (and the hair :)
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I agree. And he can put the stories generated by his overzised talking zipfile in that very place where the sun does not shine!
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All in the name of efficiency of course. Large hierarchical structures are by definition non-democratic. If in addition they thin out the middle layer using machine intel., they will become even less democratic than they already are, giving leadership power beyond belief over low level employees.
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Let's face it: Hierarchies suck!