The opposite can be pretty funny - check out the Jackie Chan film "Rumble in the Bronx" some time.
It's supposed to take place in New York but they made **no** effort at all to disguise the fact that it's Vancouver. The skyline and the surrounding mountains are all clearly visible. Major cognitive dissonance.
I genuinely don't understand the fetish some people have for the first series.
It was awful, in every possible way. Am I alone in thinking this?
The new series took the general concept and redid it strikingly well, but I can't imagine why anyone is attached to the old series, beyond general nostalgia.
Somewhere early on in the series there's a "Cylon-Occupied Caprica" super over a shot of downtown Vancouver, and the Scotiabank logo on one of the towers is clearly visible. That made me giggle a bit - they do get around I guess.
Isn't this what they've been telling us to look for for years now - the entire energy output of a galaxy caught and channelled for use by an intelligence that has spread throughout it's own galaxy?
Right, point taken. I left that bit out. I'd still vote for a few decades of intensive study in relative isolation, followed by allowing people to do as they will.
In the long run no, I think it would be rather silly to allow a few bacteria to deny us an entire world.
In the short run absolutely yes. Investigating a possible completely alternate abiogenic event? From a scientific standpoint that would be *more* than worth holding off the colonization for a century or two. The value of that information for understanding the distribution of life in the universe is incalculable.
On the other hand if it's just Earth gunk transported to Mars, away with it.
Writer A: Hey, I've got an idea! Let's have Baltar see Cylons all the time, and he doesn't know if they're real or just hallucinations.
I'm not sure why this is confusing. He has a Cylon implant in his brain - presumably with on-board AI. It can present visual and auditory data to him. Apparently it can control some of his autonomic functions as well.
I admit I'll be *hugely* disappointed in the series if Adama and Apollo are back to normal next season - what happened has to be and must remain a deep and fundamental split. From a military standpoint I don't see how he can even remain a pilot. There's a decent setup now for a near civil war within the fleet. That could make for really interesting shows, especially while done against a backdrop of a constant common threat.
I've watched them all now - the quality is occasionally uneven, and there are some silly things as you've described. All the same the overall strength of the story and characterization is more than high enough to make it worth staying with.
...always at odds even though there's never actuallly anything to disagree on
Heh. Wait until the last episode.
I can only assume you haven't seen many of the episodes. They're anything but self-contained. In fact they've gone to pains to make a coherent story arc - ie, Starbuck injures her knee in one episode and spends most of the rest of the season hobbling around in pain.
As usual the producers of the content are fools - here's a huge market to exploit, but they're complaining about it instead.
Personally I'd have paid a decent chunk of cash to a Japanese studio for the right to download GITS-SAC episodes as soon as they were aired (and 2G now). Not possible. Is it wrong to download it since I couldn't get it legally? Probably, but seriously what-freaking-ever, that's never going to stop people. The studios can choose to make money from the demand, or not. Currently they choose not to.
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Why worry about cops first and not the (always) bad guys?
The scenario is all about police beating innocent people. They're not the bad guys, and are thus rather worth worrying about, I think.
They'll migrate to free(ish) sites which serve the same function - there's a near unlimited supply of people willing to start new sites/blogs/whatever.
"Different truths can be in direct conflict... and yet both be suitable tools."
That's not mushy, that's practical.
If the inquisition tells you to recant your belief in Copernicanism or they will burn you alive, your survival depends immediately upon which tool you choose.
Actual truth, that the sun is the center of the solar system, is an utterly inappropriate tool to use and will have very bad consequences. Application of the scientific method will do you no good whatsoever. Wrong tools for the job.
Agreeing with consensus truth at that moment is the correct move.
Being in accordance with physical reality is just one measure of the utility of something (truth, scientific method) but is by no means a measure of its total and absolute utility.
My previous post on this topic may be lost in the noise above.
It isn't clear to me that this mountain range extends beyond the "dark zone" - but it does seem to sit squarely in the middle of the dark zone itself. I'm quite curious about NASA's thinking on this ridge, and whether it has some relationship to the dark material.
Another feature I'm quite curious about is this globe-spanning ridge. I haven't seen any mention of it anywhere yet.
It seems (though I may be wrong) to sit dead-center on the darkened portion of the moon and span much of the length of the dark part as well. Is there a connection perhaps? I'd be interested in the opinions of any planetary astronomers.
I don't believe it can be done - there's no political will for any of the needed changes. The system has entered the kind of sclerotic stasis that can only be altered by something earthshaking - perhaps a major economic collapse can do it. Manned space flight in the USA is essentially dead once they've retired the shuttle. The Mars mission is a silly unfunded dream.
The interesting question now is who's going to take up the torch. Private enterprise out of the USA is a possibility. China, over the course of the next three decades, is another. Europe? Maybe.
Churchill was a famed speechwriter, and greatly admired in his time for his rhetorical and debating abilities. This is what I assumed the quote referred to.
I just wish working in a lab looked half as sexy when me & my coworkers do it.
I think the lighting is everything - at the next lab meeting I would like to argue in favour of dumping nuclear-flash fluorescents in favor of lots of darkness punctuated by cool blue and red spotlights.
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The opposite can be pretty funny - check out the Jackie Chan film "Rumble in the Bronx" some time. It's supposed to take place in New York but they made **no** effort at all to disguise the fact that it's Vancouver. The skyline and the surrounding mountains are all clearly visible. Major cognitive dissonance.
I genuinely don't understand the fetish some people have for the first series.
It was awful, in every possible way. Am I alone in thinking this?
The new series took the general concept and redid it strikingly well, but I can't imagine why anyone is attached to the old series, beyond general nostalgia.
Somewhere early on in the series there's a "Cylon-Occupied Caprica" super over a shot of downtown Vancouver, and the Scotiabank logo on one of the towers is clearly visible. That made me giggle a bit - they do get around I guess.
Isn't this what they've been telling us to look for for years now - the entire energy output of a galaxy caught and channelled for use by an intelligence that has spread throughout it's own galaxy?
Right, point taken. I left that bit out. I'd still vote for a few decades of intensive study in relative isolation, followed by allowing people to do as they will.
In the long run no, I think it would be rather silly to allow a few bacteria to deny us an entire world.
In the short run absolutely yes. Investigating a possible completely alternate abiogenic event? From a scientific standpoint that would be *more* than worth holding off the colonization for a century or two. The value of that information for understanding the distribution of life in the universe is incalculable.
On the other hand if it's just Earth gunk transported to Mars, away with it.
I'm not sure why this is confusing. He has a Cylon implant in his brain - presumably with on-board AI. It can present visual and auditory data to him. Apparently it can control some of his autonomic functions as well.
I admit I'll be *hugely* disappointed in the series if Adama and Apollo are back to normal next season - what happened has to be and must remain a deep and fundamental split. From a military standpoint I don't see how he can even remain a pilot. There's a decent setup now for a near civil war within the fleet. That could make for really interesting shows, especially while done against a backdrop of a constant common threat.
I've watched them all now - the quality is occasionally uneven, and there are some silly things as you've described. All the same the overall strength of the story and characterization is more than high enough to make it worth staying with.
Heh. Wait until the last episode.
I can only assume you haven't seen many of the episodes. They're anything but self-contained. In fact they've gone to pains to make a coherent story arc - ie, Starbuck injures her knee in one episode and spends most of the rest of the season hobbling around in pain.
Not definitive? Dead wrong, grossly misleading, and similar descriptions apply.
Entire phyla which are now strongly supported by multiple solid analyses are simply missing, broken up into bizzare arbitrary groupings.
They seriously need some new taxonomy work. Who's supposed to be doing that for them anyway?
As usual the producers of the content are fools - here's a huge market to exploit, but they're complaining about it instead.
Personally I'd have paid a decent chunk of cash to a Japanese studio for the right to download GITS-SAC episodes as soon as they were aired (and 2G now). Not possible. Is it wrong to download it since I couldn't get it legally? Probably, but seriously what-freaking-ever, that's never going to stop people. The studios can choose to make money from the demand, or not. Currently they choose not to.
The scenario is all about police beating innocent people. They're not the bad guys, and are thus rather worth worrying about, I think.
Heh. I'm usually an 87-year old German woman living in Canada. Where possible I mention my fifteen cats.
They'll migrate to free(ish) sites which serve the same function - there's a near unlimited supply of people willing to start new sites/blogs/whatever.
I think we're talking about different levels here. I certainly acknowledge that physical reality remains unaffected by our beliefs.
I'm talking about utility - it is also the truth that certain things will happen to you if you choose to vocalize the wrong way.
"Different truths can be in direct conflict... and yet both be suitable tools."
That's not mushy, that's practical.
If the inquisition tells you to recant your belief in Copernicanism or they will burn you alive, your survival depends immediately upon which tool you choose.
Actual truth, that the sun is the center of the solar system, is an utterly inappropriate tool to use and will have very bad consequences. Application of the scientific method will do you no good whatsoever. Wrong tools for the job.
Agreeing with consensus truth at that moment is the correct move.
Being in accordance with physical reality is just one measure of the utility of something (truth, scientific method) but is by no means a measure of its total and absolute utility.
Couldn't agree more completely. A good PM works people at all levels to ensure things come together.
Of course that's assuming he/she is given sufficiently free reign to focus on project success over other priorities.
If the white mountain line is contiguous with the rest of the "ring" feature then the whole mess is virtually dead-on the equator. Very wierd.
My previous post on this topic may be lost in the noise above.
It isn't clear to me that this mountain range extends beyond the "dark zone" - but it does seem to sit squarely in the middle of the dark zone itself. I'm quite curious about NASA's thinking on this ridge, and whether it has some relationship to the dark material.
Another feature I'm quite curious about is this globe-spanning ridge. I haven't seen any mention of it anywhere yet.
It seems (though I may be wrong) to sit dead-center on the darkened portion of the moon and span much of the length of the dark part as well. Is there a connection perhaps? I'd be interested in the opinions of any planetary astronomers.
I don't believe it can be done - there's no political will for any of the needed changes. The system has entered the kind of sclerotic stasis that can only be altered by something earthshaking - perhaps a major economic collapse can do it. Manned space flight in the USA is essentially dead once they've retired the shuttle. The Mars mission is a silly unfunded dream.
The interesting question now is who's going to take up the torch. Private enterprise out of the USA is a possibility. China, over the course of the next three decades, is another. Europe? Maybe.
I'd just like to archive a note to all those thousand-year-from-now people laughing at us
"Oh bite me, you come back here and see how easy it is."
That's all.
Churchill was a famed speechwriter, and greatly admired in his time for his rhetorical and debating abilities. This is what I assumed the quote referred to.
I just wish working in a lab looked half as sexy when me & my coworkers do it.
I think the lighting is everything - at the next lab meeting I would like to argue in favour of dumping nuclear-flash fluorescents in favor of lots of darkness punctuated by cool blue and red spotlights.