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Was I the only person to read yesterday's Ziggy comic<\/a> and think of Battlestar Galactica?<\/p>\n

We actually focused on machines becoming self aware in my religion and science fiction class yesterday, the readings being \u201cGus\u201d by Jack McDevitt and \u201cGood News from the Vatican\u201d by Robert Silverberg. For next time, they are reading \u201cReason\u201d by Isaac Asimov.<\/p>\n

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