Where Quantum Computers Fit In

Adam Nash provides a curious summary of Scott Aaronson's 2008 article on computing complexity, and I'm not inspired to improve on it.  But the picture below is interesting in and of itself.

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Religious Allegory of Ridley Scott

Fifield and the biologist discover
the "space cobra" (i.e. hammerpede)

Click on this link for a fresh take on the symbolism of Prometheus.  Was Ridley Scott making an allegory?  Did he conceive of this after watching Bladerunner several times in a row?  Does David Weyland dream of electric sheep?

Vickers brought her collapsible chair to LV 223

This Engineer mummy in the movie
 Alien appears to be coccooned. 

Recursion and Inception

If you don't understand recursion, imagine an instance of yourself that is better at understanding recursion and ... Just watch Inception and see if that helps at all.