The Hardest Naturally Occurring Substance on Earth

asvjerry
rodman9x...*G* Thereby we run into an interesting paradox of human mental states...

We sometimes to refer to one as being ’dense’, which can be analogus to the ’hard vacuum’. Which can lead to one being ’brainless’, ’mentally AOL’, and the like.
We all succumb to ’having that (info, memory, knowledge, word) on the tip of ones’ tongue’, but only recalling it later when it’s not relevant, or merely frustrating.

>>>>>Yes, mentally AOL is no fun, maybe worse than mentally Google.

....actually, I mis-typed 'AWOL', but AOL could be 'Absolutely Out to Lunch'...*G*
It could be discussed and cussed that AOL and its' ilk led to The Google goblin....the noun, the verb, the know-all tells-all oracle of the datasphere.

I'm awaiting the day one reads a scholarly paper in which all the references are websites from Google.  I remember there was a teleplay that depicted the eventual closing of the 'book' libraries, due to lack of patrons....one hopes it remains a work of fiction.

Fiction? George Orwell’s, "Big Brother" isn’t far off:   https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-22/google-is-the-worlds-biggest-censor-and-its-power-must-be-regulated     and: https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2016/07/29/googles-power-of-censorship-who-controls-the-controllers-of-the-internet/      Or (a more current article): Big Sister, perhaps?     https://www.macleans.ca/society/technology/amazon-alexa-google-home-privacy-surveillance/

Since sound can't travel in a vacuum; I find the voices in my head reassuring.     Counting them is difficult though, with all those pesky echos.

geoffkait, ''ability to hear when the stylus is worn?'' There are many
who are not able to see if the stylus is worn even with their new
(expensive) microscoope. I always asked Axel and he always
advised an new one (grin).