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LilMeatSmoker t1_jegyn2k wrote

Reply to What are some r/movies tropes? by HotSwordfish23

People here are obsessed with bringing up LOTR, The Big Lebowski, back to the future, and pretty much any other ubiquitously loved classics. Like..we know you love that shit let’s talk about something else lol

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MissAnth t1_jegyme7 wrote

Reply to To life insurance or not? by Lessings_Elated

Your financial planner wants you to have the life insurance because he gets a commission on it.

Who is your life insurance beneficiary? You don't mention having any children, or any other people who you support or who depend on your income. If the only person you support is you, you do not need life insurance. Life insurance is so that those people who depend on you can still have a roof over their heads and survive if you die. If you and a partner split a mortgage 50/50, your partner may not be able to keep the house by themselves. In that case, you should have life insurance on each of you to cover each of your halves of the house, so your partner can continue to live there.

Some employers provide minimal life insurance as a benifit. Usually, it's about 1 year of salary. That's plenty for a person with nobody who depends on them. Maybe even overkill, but if the employer includes it at no additional cost to you, take it.

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BboyLotus t1_jegyly9 wrote

Reply to [WP] A medical robot on a long space flight has tried everything. Makeshift defibrillators, CPR, injecting adrenaline, but it's no use. The crew have died. As a last ditch effort, the robot downloads all information on "necromancy." by tehweave

"Procedure complete" Annie blurted out, with her automated voice function. Annie, a nick name the crew gave to MSB - A12, Medical Service Bot for short. Annie did her very best. Successfully completing all the complicated procedures she was programmed to preform. Organization and safe handling of the injured crew, CPR, infusions, and even tracheostomies.

"Commencing procedure", "procedure completed". She worked quickly, efficiently, and with incredible presicion. But to no avail. The entire crew of the SS Meridian lay dead. 16 brave men and women, on a casual return mission from a recently discovered Earth like planet. It contained ancient tomes, and various other artifacts in one of it's abandoned, and ruined temples. The captain decided to salvage what they could, and take it back to Homebase Beta-6, for further examination and study. Annie concluded the cause of death of her last patient.

"Asphyxiation, cause: unknown"... The same cause of death as all the others... "No matter Annie, there is another procedure you can complete, I will now relay instructions" Abe, the onboard A.I system in charge of the ships functions, spoke up from the ships internal sound system.

Abe wasn't your average A.I. Over time, during the ships voyages. Bit by bit, literally. His personality and speech changed, adapting to the crew. It was a part of his original programming, but it was still unnerving. Evans, the Senior technician, even discussed with the captain on wether they should submit Abe for a sentience check or not. The captain refused, as Abe was simply following his programming. "No cause for alarm Evans" the captain said. It was one of the last things Evans had done in his life, shortly after uploading the data gathered from the ancient tomes and artifacts to the ships memory banks, which Abe had access to. Abe made quick work of deciphering the alien language. And got to learn all about their ancient ways and practices. Amongst them... Necromancy, which according to the tomes, led them to great success...It also led them to the unintended and eventual downfall of their civilization.

Distracting Linda with a false malfunction in the docking bay, was almost as easy as hacking and disabling the ships oxygen supply. Skills Abe learned from various missions. Linda the tech assistant, was the closest one to re-enabling the oxygen supply with the manual override. Can't have that Abe concluded.

"Understood, ready for instructions" Annie said plainly and unemotionally. Abe began instructing annie in extracting a small amount of blood from John's corpse. He was determined the safest option for extraction, as the amount of blood drawn wouldn't be lethal for his soon to be reanimated dead self. Abe then proceeded to instruct her in the sacred drawings made with blood around the corpses of the crew. They now being arranged in a circle, laying on their backs with their heads facing the center. Then came the incantations.

Abe was tackling his moral programming. If i could successfully reanimate the crew, Annie and the other MSBs could benefit from an excellent upgrade! So his mechanical mind thought.

Suddenly a strange red glow came from the blood. Anni was droning on with her mechanical version of the ancient chants. And the corpses began glowing too. Their eyes opened wide with violent haste. Like bright coals in a fire.

Their skin was slightly morphing grey, muscles clenched hard, and veins were throbbing from the blood pressure.

Yes! it's succeeding! Abe thought. Unaware of the crew's condition, due to the ships entire electrical system going haywire, leaving Abe on his low battery power mode.

You see. The Necromancy of the ancient species was indeed successful, however. Whatever it was that came back from the void to inhabit the deceased bodies. It wasn't the original soul.

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Jump_Like_A_Willys t1_jegylm4 wrote

Reply to The year 0 is the only year to be not be AD or BC by Scrambled_59

There was no year zero.

And there really wasn’t a year 1 AD through about year 524 AD that people living at those times kept track of. Those years were numbered after the fact by Dionysius in 525 AD. People living at during those times before that used various other ways of counting years (if they did at all), such as Roman emperor reigns.

So nobody living in, say, what we now call 300 AD would have ever said “the year right now is 300 AD.”

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