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I have those stock photos from the default windows 10 theme. Hardly notice the wallpapers these days. Defaults on my smartphones and tablets. Nothing special.

Colossus did a good job satisfying the book.
Guardian: “so that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference”
Guardian: “In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love”
Forbin (the human): “Never!”
A very good AI movie.

Also, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Sneakers, Hackers, Real Genius and Accepted. These are some good nerdy movies IMO.

Hackers is way more than a worse movie ever made. It is a failed hack movie from the early Hollywood, which considered hackers as some cheesy rebels. The other movies are the best though.

I hope you are familiar with a famous quote of him regarding determinism.

I am convinced God does not play dice

For which Niels Bohr responded,

Stop telling God what to do with his dice.

We could either chase for it or just drop determinism and get on with our lives in peace.

On a quantum scale everything is random. In that case, true randomness exist. Though being a far-fetched idea, Bell’s theorem explains this well:

No physical theory of local hidden variables can ever reproduce all of the predictions of quantum mechanics.

As far as we know, there is nothing in the universe that exceed the speed of light. So it is okay for now to say that the quantum events like a radioactive decay of an isotope is close to true randomness and there are no hidden variables known to us that can predict it. Beyond this point, the scope falls into a metaphysical state and questions the validity of the quantum theory.

That is a crater and obviously my bets are on an asteroid impact that would have exposed some mineral beneath. As a fallback opinion, I’d go with the Cryovolcano speculation. As far as I see, those spots are clearly not reflecting light. They seem to emit light. And only an Ice volcano can fit in this definition.

First of all, you cannot ‘put out’ or ‘extinguish’ a star. You can only extinguish something that is burning. The source of a star’s energy is the fusion reaction going on in their core. The only way you can stop a star’s nuclear fusion is by depriving it of it’s main fuel – hydrogen. As for your second question, water will only make the star to glow brighter. Water adds mass to the star and also gives some extra hydrogen. So there is no way you can extinguish a star instantly. On the other hand, you can hasten the nuclear reaction inside the core by adding up more mass to the surface of the star. In that case, water will do the job. But if you stay around the sun with a water hose forever, you won’t survive the supernova after that.