October 5 Questions (Bronzie)                               2020-10-27
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My responses to Bronzies's 5Qs for October:

  gemini://multiverse.thruhere.net/5q/202010-1.gmi

> 1. If you had to live in one, Which Sci-Fi dystopia would you live
  in, and why?

Unfortunately I have never seen Bladerunner, Running Man, Demolition
Man, or Looper... I'm not really much for films as you might
guess. I'll take the 2020 Dystopia instead, as my wife and kids are
here :-)

> 2. You have access to a single-hop time machine that can jump you 60
  years into the past or the future. There's a gun at your head and
  you must jump or perish. You can only travel once. 1960, 2080, or
  oblivion? Why?

Hmmm... I'll take 1960 I think. There's a lot of bad stuff in the
past, but there'd be some good music, and I'd get to see things mostly
heading in the right direction over time. I'm a bit pessimistic about
where things will be in 2080, with climate change and so on.

> 3. Tomorrow you are launching on the first manned mission to
  Mars. You are about to be in for 36 months of rehydrated mush and
  vacuum-sealed nutritious shelf-stable goodness. What is your
  launch-eve dinner (anything you want)? Bonus points: describe it in
  a way that will make us want it too.

I think I'd like to eat some cochinita pibil tacos. Delicious moist
pork with chipotle flavour, topped with some pink pickled
onions. Yum. Weirdly although we've lived in Texas for 10 nearly 10
years my wife and I's favourite place to get these is a restaurant in
London.... they are just so delicious there.

> 4. Sponsors of the Mars trip have arranged 24/7 streaming of Fox
  News to your ship and habitat as your primary entertainment. In your
  private time you are allowed 15 minutes a day where you can listen
  to your own audio media. You can take 10 songs/tracks of up to 7.5
  minutes in length each with you on your trip to Mars - what are
  they?

This is difficult, but off the top of my head a good start might be...

 * Edwin Starr - 25 Miles
 * The Bluetones - Bluetonic
 * Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
 * Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
 * Kamaya Painters - Endless Wave (Albion Mix)
 * The Thrillseekers - Synaestheisa (Instrumental)
 * Old 97s - Victoria
 * Human League - In Darkness
 * Suede - The Beautiful Ones
 * Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness

> 5. Tomorrow's headline: scientists prove definitively that we live
  in a computed simulation. What do you feel about this?

Whoever wrote it is a bit twisted, or they'd have shut the thing down
when seemingly crazy events like the election of Trump started
happening, and started debugging.