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Sham bam bamina! posted:yeah it's a basic loving joke and i am extremely annoyed that i let myself consider the possibility that it might be serious it's significant that you categorized it as something plausible-sounding but false instead of blatantly obviously not true
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americans are hugely unaware so it's not a huge leap, no
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Heresiarch posted:americans are hugely unaware so it's not a huge leap, no  " thing when jonad quoted iti am not absolved though 
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Mar 22, 2014 02:46
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lol hey sham bamina, did you know that the word "gullible" didnt appear in the dictionary until 1982?
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FMguru posted:lol
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also if you'd said that about the original mad max and not the road warrior then it would be even more plausible, remember that next time
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FMguru posted:true fact: when the road warrior came to american movie theaters in the early 1980s most americans thought it was a documentary (or at least based on a real story) about life in australia
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Shaggar posted:Robocop was the best 80s wasteland future movie except they underestimated how bad it would be shaggar is right. I love robocop. turns out robocop 2 is also surprisingly not terrible. it's not verhoeven but they do a really good job of matching the tone and style of the first movie.
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i watched most of the first episode of the 100 and it was pretty bad but not as execrable as i figured it would be i'n not entirely clear on why they sent a bunch of 27 year old teenagers to recolonize the earth or why they wasted lift capcity on bluejeans and handguns but it had mr. reese's fixer lady buddy as some sort of doctor and mr. gaeta was standing around in the background (i'm guessing the space station must be orbiting a soundstage about 3 miles outside vancouver)
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ugh finally watched the latest nucosmos still too flashy and up its own special effects rear end i knew the atheist ranting was going to be bad but i didn't expect the religious language used in relation to scientific concepts which just makes the atheist agenda that much uglier is dna really the "scripture of life"?
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Mar 22, 2014 06:23
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Stymie posted:is dna really the "scripture of life"?
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Mar 22, 2014 06:33
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now let us read from the Book of Hox
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sagan was a proud agnostic because he knew the atheist movement was a religion trying to gain legitimacy through co-opting science and that was reflected in his work he advanced science and critical thought as a means to skeptically view the world without having to challenge the legitimacy of religion and the motives of the religious
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JawnV6 posted:i read this thing about how the physicality of books can tip off how far you are to the end. like you know the end is coming becasue there can only be so much more in the next 30 pages. anyone have any clue what im talking about? seems reasonable although i don't know if it's an impulse worth confounding or embracing one method i've seen is to just have the back 35 or so pages be an excerpt from the author's next book another is for the book to just be the first instalment of a trilogy but give absolutely no indication of this fact anywhere on the cover 
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qntm posted:one method i've seen is to just have the back 35 or so pages be an excerpt from the author's next book or you could go all tolkien return of the king and have the history of middle earth and an elvish dictionary in there he also milked the ending a lot harder than peter jackson ever dreamed of
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qntm posted:seems reasonable although i don't know if it's an impulse worth confounding or embracing or you can use ebooks and tell it not to indicate the total number of pages read anyhow tv and movies suffer from this as well because you can always hit the play button to see what's left. it's kind of an interesting problem
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:or you can use ebooks and tell it not to indicate the total number of pages read thats the best part of kindle on iOS, no progress indicator at all. I have to use a band to hide the progress bar on my actual kindle...
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when I read a fire upon the deep i didn't realize the last half of the ebook was just authors draft footnotes so the ending caught me really off-guard
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vOv posted:when I read a fire upon the deep i didn't realize the last half of the ebook was just authors draft footnotes so the ending caught me really off-guard i knew it because i was reading those notes as i went along i like that the last one at the end of the book was "It's finished! It's done it's finished it's doneitsfinishedithaghagjhafhkjfhsahgsahgsjg" or something along those lines a lot of the notes were neat and you can sort of read into the fact that he was working a lot on the alien vocabulary and different stuff with the characters like i think originally the little brother was going to be older at first or something i dont remember but yeah a bunch of stuff was changed and probably changed the whole outcome of the story here and there
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Stymie posted:sagan was a proud agnostic because he knew the atheist movement was a religion trying to gain legitimacy through co-opting science and that was reflected in his work yeah. episode one should have been intro to astronomy and all the cool poo poo in our solar system and the scope of our existence relative to time and space. it didn't need any mention of religious persecution, let alone spending 1/3 of the episode on it. then the evolution episode, which I thoguth wasn't as bad but still had some gross stuff (ex: presenting evolution as a belief in the religion of atheism as opposed to scientific theory), should have been left for later in the series. Start with more familiar science to prevent people from turning it off and then present evolution in the same scientific manner. I was flipping between hockey and a documentary on science channel w/ brian cox about potential sources of life in our universe and it was way way better and more interesting.
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recklessly cross-quoting out of contextol qwerty bastard posted:... those kilometers-long spaceships you see in science fiction ... actually behave ... like huge floppy dongs ...
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thank you for another opportunity to draw up some nomograms and endlessly agonize over the necessary physical properties of space ships
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hey most of you have good taste so can anyone recommend some good space documentaries? and maybe poo poo like that neat viking ulfbert sword documentary I like to get drunk and watch documentaries
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SmokaDustbowl posted:hey most of you have good taste so can anyone recommend some good space documentaries? and maybe poo poo like that neat viking ulfbert sword documentary Moon Machines is really good, especially the ones about the moon car and the moon suits and the other moon stuff that doesn't get as much love as the moon rocket and the moon lander.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/
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reading rainbows end at the moment, Vernor Vinge is like the only singularity dude who is tolerable because he is actually a good writer and has relateable characters
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Meiwaku posted:thats the best part of kindle on iOS, no progress indicator at all. I have to use a band to hide the progress bar on my actual kindle... mine on ipad shows me the estimated time i'll take to finish the chapter
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Jet Age posted:reading rainbows end at the moment, Vernor Vinge is like the only singularity dude who is tolerable because he is actually a good writer and has relateable characters Take a look It's in a book
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SmokaDustbowl posted:hey most of you have good taste so can anyone recommend some good space documentaries? and maybe poo poo like that neat viking ulfbert sword documentary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_%28TV_miniseries%29 Really good overall, and a couple episodes (Spider, Galileo was Right) are outstanding.
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Davethulhu posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_%28TV_miniseries%29 this really is loving excellent, also "when we left earth" the bbc made a really good show about the cassini probe called "destination titan" that i really enjoyed too, if you can find it
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not exactly scifi but the lego movie is really loving good, like old pixar level it has as much to say to adults who used to play with legos and still do periodically as it does to kids
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the undiscovered country is on bbc america right now for some reason a good trek movie
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Beeftweeter posted:the undiscovered country is on bbc america right now for some reason
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Sham bam bamina! posted:any idea which cut? tv showings can be weird about that stuff (sometimes in a good way). no idea, i was just flipping through the guide and saw it was on. its about halfway through i guess (kirk and mccoy just got to rura penthe)
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haveblue posted:not exactly scifi but the lego movie is really loving good, like old pixar level an alternative but not entirely contradictory interpretation
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new cosmos 3 synopsis so stymie can have his fake outrage posts: neil kidnaps a white baby and transports him across state lines by flying away into outer space and he explains the meaning of nullius in verba then neil says that halley's verifiable predictions are more interesting and useful than any hocus pocus prophecies made by assorted flim flam men
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ok? just because something has a brand agenda doesn't make it automatically bad and the world needs to be reminded that legos are the best toys every once in a while
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haveblue posted:ok? just because something has a brand agenda doesn't make it automatically bad and the world needs to be reminded that legos are the best toys every once in a while someone has to write for the non-existent other viewpoint
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haveblue posted:ok? just because something has a brand agenda doesn't make it automatically bad and the world needs to be reminded that legos are the best toys every once in a while you think you're making a counterargument, that's adorable
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