Real life Alia

[Dunenewt]

A 19 year old woman called Alia has become the world's youngest college professor.

She started talking and reading when she was just 8 months old. She had elementary school finished at age 5.

She made the jump to college at age 10. And by age 14, Sabur was earning a bachelor

[piterdevries]

later on:

latest update on Sabur.

SABUR POSSESSED BY HER OWN GRANDFATHER!

lol  ;D ;D ;D

[Anathema]

That woman is an abomination!

...

in history, what more proof could you need?

[Kokiri-Mentat]

she makes me want to quit life.  how does she prevent becoming jaded at life?  She's done so much already.

[Dunenewt]

I'm surprised there's no mention of Dune in the article, given the similarities.

[gunner154]

Let's not talk about the 'throwing oneself out of the window' part, shall we?

[Dunenewt]

That girl's doomed, she'll go mad.

[gunner154]

Apocalyptic, but it's only a matter of time...

Anybody thought about the real life Hayt then?

[Dunenewt]

There was an author called Peter De Vries, I think.  Speaking of Hayt, I watched The 6th Day last night, which dealt with clones who were given the memories of their previous lives, although in some cases more than one version of the same person exists at the same time.  Their memories were preserved onto a disk.

[gunner154]

Smells like a nullentropy capsule to me. Without the genes.

[Dunenewt]

Oh, I forgot, a person's genes are recorded onto the disk too, but using a different device to the one which stores the memories.

[MrFlibble]

When I watched the movie, I definitely thought: Tleilaxu. I bet the plot was at least partially influenced by Herbert's works.

Alia looks more mature than her real age. I'm glad there are people like her, perhaps there will be more of them in the future :)

[Dunenewt]

Yes, that's what I thought as well, especially the way because the way most of humanity viewed it in the movie, reminded me of the Tlulax in the Legends of Dune, because some powerful people knew, but kept it secret.