The super Melo to Portland thread + The Big Blockbuster

Yes sir!

 

Try being black, not believing in the moon landing (not me), and then this comes out:

 

Such a good movie.

 

you made my day bro!....way to bring it!

 

Donating blood to the thread:

https://www.si.com/nba/2017/08/17/k...rmelo-anthony-kristaps-porzingis-kyrie-irving

Trade Rumors: How Will the Knicks Mess This Up?

Give the Knicks credit for this—they always keep things interesting.

It's the middle of August, yet New York finds itself immersed in potentially franchise-altering trade rumors. Carmelo Anthony's name continues to be a mainstay of the rumor will, with the Knicks star reportedly eyeing a move to Houston.
In addition, the Knicks have been one of the main teams mentioned in Kyrie Irving trade talks, with Kristaps Porzingis being mentioned as a potential Cavaliers target.

The Crossover's Madelyn Burke, Rohan Nadkarni and DeAntae Prince recently sat down and debated what the Knicks should do next.

Madelyn Burke: The Knicks have limited assets yet seem to be in on the conversation in two trades. What moves will make the most sense for the long-term benefit of the franchise?

Rohan Nadkarni: I think it actually starts with moving Melo. I don’t know if Kyrie is really the fight fit with the Knicks. But Melo has kind of been there as the awkward step dad in the situation the whole time, he doesn’t really make a lot of sense…

Burke: You know, Melo grilling in the backyard…

Nadkarni: … [laughs] it looked like it became an ego contest between him and Phil Jackson, and Melo won. He outlasted Phil and that’s great, I’m happy for him.
At the same time I think he’s realized it’s time to move on, obviously he’s trying to make his way to Houston, but if you look at the Knicks right now they have some good pieces.
They’ve got [Wily] Hernangomez, they’ve got [Kristaps] Porzingis, they’ve got [Frank] Ntilikina, all guys you can build a core around, build a team around.
Then you still have Melo, [Joakim] Noah, you signed Tim Hardaway this offseason, you’ve got to find a way to move these vets, get rid of these vets. I think if they’re really looking toward the future, it starts with moving Melo.

DeAntae Prince: Yeah, moving Melo is definitely important, but I’d say because Kyrie is such a better basketball player at this point, that anything involves him is more important than whatever involves Melo, and his hoodies, and his late-night run at Chelsea Piers.


Burke: If Hoodie Melo was playing this would be a different conversation, but there’s no hoods in the NBA. Even in the Nike uniforms, we tried, but Nike didn’t include the hoods.

But here’s a question too: If Kyrie gets moved to New York and Melo stays, does that make it more enticing for Melo and Kyrie to team up there?

Nadkarni: Well, we saw James Dolan had a lot of patience with Phil Jackson. He’s kind of taken a step back from the basketball operations side of this whole thing.
I think he’s going to have patience and give the guys a chance. Steve Mills is kind of the cockroach of the Knicks’ nuclear war. He’s just outlasted everything.
I don’t know what kind of dirt he has on Dolan, but he’s lasted a long time.
I don’t think the Knicks have to make a splashy move right now—the best thing they could do is to not do anything. Keep Porzingis, don’t make any crazy movements.
They already made this [Tim] Hardaway signing, which is just insane. They already need to find a way to get out from under that one.

Burke: Between Hardaway and Noah, they are so anchored down in commitments.

Prince; Yeah, the Knicks have a lot of fires to put out in a lot of other places. So I think they’ll be fine with staying pat for a little awhile and trying to let this team build from the ground up because they’re definitely on the ground floor right now.

 

Just to keep the thread going...

 

For all intents and purposes they did.

 

Not really. From the article you linked:

 

^^^ The sci-fi books Ilium and Olympus by Dan Simmons do a good job of making this sort of tech easily understandable. Teleportation, in this manner, will rely on the marriage of two technologies - the teleportation of info (as previously mentioned) combined with rapid 3D printing or rearranging of molecules. Philosophically it's much more disturbing than the popular idea of teleportation wherein space/time is folded.

 

Perhaps more disturbingly, though, there's no particular reason why the original must be destroyed, from a scientific standpoint. Every teleportation could create another branch of your life.

 

Yup! Things get super creepy and interesting with this method of teleportation. I dig it for sci-fi, but I hope that we try to figure out the space/time alternative for real life application.

 

I think there are several board members who are volunteering the HCP as the first test subject.

 

Future tech and especially far future tech is really fascinating. I think one fundamental truth is that the underlying reality to everything is information. We're constantly losing and gaining atoms--every year, we've completely replaced every atom in our bodies. In the end, we are just patterns of information and the universe is constantly rebuilding us from that pattern on the fly. Another fundamental truth is that anything with energy can be reduced to computing power--a rock has minimal computing power, a star has a massive amount.

When I try to imagine what things might look like some arbitrarily massive distance into the future, I think of linking stars and galaxies into an unfathomably large computer and manipulating the patterns of energy that make up all of matter. We would control reality in a very real way at that point.

 

Melo's mistress, Mia Burks

 

I know! I really wish I could see and experience, first hand, what the future will be like. The possibilities are incredible, and it seems like we're going to get very close to some of those possibilities in our lifetime, but not close enough for them to be accessible to normal people. Just private space exploration would be enough for me! But not Virgin's upper-atmosphere flights - I mean actually escaping the gravity well and getting at least to the moon.
Of course, human history may be knocked off its current course and our hopes and dreams that seem nearly within our grasp may slip away.

 

The Prestige did a good job of explaining this.