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I read the Mars Trilogy when I was a teenager and have reread it a few times since then. I like it a lot, though it's a bit unrealistic in that if they had nanotech and really powerful AI (which I think they did?) they could have done a lot more with it. But creating socialist utopias on all the planets and moons is pretty cool too. Also, reviving Prometheuschat: what if the black goo was a more concentrated form of the stuff that Wikus was infected with in District 9?
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DS9 best trek They gave that Ferengi kid more character development than any main character on any other trek show. And Garak owns.
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Sniep posted:i couldn't stand any ep with that bejoran queen bitch That would be all the Bajorans. Also Keiko.
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Jun 20, 2012 05:09
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Holy crap, I didn't think I'd ever see that again. It rivals The Eye of Argon in terribleness.
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It could have been so much better
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I still don't get why there are so many Torontonians in the 'pos
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axolotl farmer posted:Avery Brooks is a master of the Shatner school of overacting Yes Amethyst posted:iron sky was funnier than I expected Yes
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The only good thing about Universe is the goon character.
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Jul 22, 2012 05:59
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I like Firefly  The movie was pretty good too And if it hadn't been, they would never have let Whedon direct The Avengers
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Jul 28, 2012 16:56
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I started reading Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep", it pretty much owns. Hearing them talk about data rates of like 10 kbps is kind of funny but to be fair that's a reasonable estimate for what you'd be able to get across thousands/tens of thousands of light years with super huge transmitters (they have ftl comms but I guess inverse-square still applies probably). Everyone in the future yospostin' in newsgroups. The way he writes about humans as seen from an alien perspective is super neat too. And how post-singularity superintelligent entities become like inscrutable gods to the extent that normal sentient beings take courses in "applied theology". Anyway it's a cool book and I recommend it even though I'm only like a quarter of the way through it.
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Jul 30, 2012 04:28
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Something something joke about your dick being so small that it's on the molecular scale.
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Jul 30, 2012 19:45
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duTrieux. posted:voyager makes me a little mad because the premise is so goddamn wasted They managed to gently caress up the same premise with Stargate Universe too. How the hell is "starship stranded somewhere out in space far away from Earth" not the easiest thing to write cool sci-fi around?
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Jul 31, 2012 04:19
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FEMA summer camp posted:GOD drat IT!!! Okay it was getting better at the end but the first season was painful to watch (I guess that's true for a lot of sci-fi though; probably if it had been given a chance it could have been pretty good). It needed less story about Eli being friendzoned by Chloe and more about Dr. Rush being an insane badass.
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Jul 31, 2012 05:03
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Instead of having an infirmary, why not just program the transporter to rejigger everyone's atoms into a perfectly healthy state every time they use it. Why can't they use it to make unlimited copies of Data to use as away teams in hazardous locations. If there's an incoming photon torpedo why don't they transport a solid block of something into its path. etc
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Jul 31, 2012 15:19
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They should have included Jonathan Frakes
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Jul 31, 2012 23:01
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If Abrams Trek had had LCARS:
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Aug 1, 2012 01:37
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On Stargate Atlantis, the "life signs detectors" were palm pilots I think.
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The only way to make it more futuristic is to make it transparent. Of course irl that might be neat for a phone or something but would suck for watching movies or gaming or anything graphics oriented.
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Aug 1, 2012 03:16
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If another intelligent species manages to evolve on Earth a hundred million years from now, their geologists and paleontologists are going to be all "wtf" about the anthropocene rock stratum
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Aug 1, 2012 03:57
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Our landfills are going to be the best mines in the future though
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Aug 1, 2012 03:59
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We live at a priveleged time in history, when we can be angry at people who are still alive for loving everything up. Our kids, though? They're just gonna have to be like "yeah there was this one greedy generation that used up all the resources on the planet; they're all dead now" before going back to trying to coax plants to grow in sand using water contaminated with heavy metals so they have anything to eat.
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Aug 1, 2012 12:32
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I wonder if the recent explosion in popularity of zombie stuff is an offshoot of the "everything's going to hell" feeling and so it's more about providing a safe way for people to fantasize about how they're totally going to be the badass survivalist after the end and headshot all the zombies (i.e. poor people who are coming to take their stuff). Then again maybe it's just more excessive nerd poo poo where they took a cool thing and then ran it into the ground over and over again.
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Aug 1, 2012 15:24
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If I were going to go live somewhere on my own away from civilization, there's some really nice isolated coastal properties in Newfoundland that would be pretty much perfect. You can get a fully furnished 2 bedroom house on a huge lot for less than 10 grand, because there's no road that goes to it (which would be a plus in this case). Cons: not the ideal climate for growing your own food. Pros: fish.
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Aug 1, 2012 15:47
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:usul is the strength at the base of this boner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B6jgkcANRE&t=305s
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Aug 2, 2012 02:28
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Torchwood is bad and I blame Russell T Davies.
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Aug 2, 2012 02:34
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FEMA summer camp posted:...AND WHERE'S MY BEETLE SNUFF???? Also when redditors use the word "females" it is proper to read it in the voice of the Grand Nagus.
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I liked Trinity and Beyond because it had lots of cool footage of nuke tests. Check this poo poo out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8IvER-GGEY
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Watched part of Battleship; it is not very good. Gonna go read Rendezvous with Rama instead.
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Yeah I Like Girls posted:what the gently caress did you expect? You'd think (a bit too optimistically, I suppose) that if they spend that much money on a movie, it would have at least minimally competent writing, acting, or directing. But it's clear they just threw the entire budget at CGIing the stupid loving aliens. I cannot figure out why Liam Neeson agreed to be in it; I guess so he could pretend to be a Navy guy and yell at people.
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duTrieux. posted:In a post apocalyptic future, it's u ur posts are apocalyptic
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Aug 4, 2012 23:51
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"Young Adult" fiction is the worst.
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Doesn't the Voyager have point-to-point transporters? Automatic procedures for a security breach should be "immediately beam them all into space".Oae Ui posted:necessary evil is a p good ds9 ep. odo owns. Truth.
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Aug 7, 2012 02:09
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A baryon sweep could I suppose remove alpha radiation from the hull. Course it would also remove the hull. And Star Trek invents a new type of "never encountered before" radiation every week anyway.
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I like watching some tv shows and sometimes I even like to talk to other fans of shows. It is fun to be able to reference something and have people understand it because it is like an inside joke. I don't know if I'm quite ready to paint my car to look like a TARDIS or dress up as an anime character or shout character catchphrases in public locations.
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Avatar is like the only movie ever that got interstellar travel right.
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LP97S posted:How did it work in that, I don't feel like watching the movie. Unfortunately they didn't actually explain any of this in the movie because they needed more time for CGI cat people but the ship was based off a real-world design that would have a big mirror sail that would be pushed by a bank of exawatt fuckofflasers on Mercury or some place close to the sun, accelerating it up to like .7c, and then it had antimatter engines to slow down at the other end. They actually put a bunch of research into realistic interstellar travel. http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns.php#id--Avatar_ISV_Venture_Star
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Entirely unrelated to this discussion I just did a back of the envelope calculation on how far into deep space we could reasonably send a probe using current technology. Assuming a 1 ton spacecraft + 1 ton RTG, which could produce about 250 mN of thrust for 30 years using 5 tons of Xenon propellant, for a total of about 90 km/s of delta-v, launched from Earth using a chemical rocket and breaking orbit going about 7 km/s initially, then after 30 years it would have travelled a staggering... 0.003 light years. That's like 10 times further than Pluto but still. y our spaceships so slow
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Aug 8, 2012 17:44
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Bob NewSCART posted:can anyone even be a fan of that movie No, it was horrible. And I actually liked Transformers 1 and 3. http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie
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Inverse Icarus posted:i've seen the nog show "The Siege of AR-558" and "It's Only a Paper Moon" are two of the best episodes of anything ever. Nog owns so hard.
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Yeah I Like Girls posted:gooons 
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