I don't know. If it wasn't for the crew, I wouldn't care at all about the ship. It never seemed to me to be as much a character as fanboys and special features told me. ::shrug:: Mileage varies, of course, but I always saw it as a cool setting and above all a thing that had meaning because it had meaning for Mal.
@FavreFAIL: Nice.
@Asen: And I'm an idiot, because this is talking about the western sands of Egypt, as opposed to the Sahara proper. Well now I sound pretentious and wrong.
Now we know? I really hate to sound like a know-it-all, but I thought Mega-Chad was pretty well-known by now. Add to that the Saharan pump thesis...
@lazyeight: You are absolutely right, and thank you for adding that. I said that in a lower comment, but it bears repeating: NIMBY is both a global and local phenomenon.
@brianesser76: Is there a conceivable limit? I mean, sure, the oceans are huge, and contain more water than most people could even guess, but they're not impervious to pollution.
@linten1: Aren't there tons of missile silos in NIMBY situations throughout the States? Funny how that works--poor places always hold the filth of the richer ones (along with their own, of course).
@alystra_stardust: Seems like there are a lot of people who find it important to quibble about details.
I, for one, find nothing to question about the great powers exporting the expense of their research to places where very few people live and where there is no economic power to speak of. Fuck you, Bikini! Fuck you, Puerto Rico! The big boys need places to drop heavy metals and radioactive materials! The Soviet Union needed to shit all over Central Asia; we needed to shit over the Pacific. This is Progress. This makes us Safe. It is Wise, Proper, and you are a Hippie if you say otherwise.
I, for one, find nothing to question about the great powers exporting the expense of their research to places where very few people live and where there is no economic power to speak of. Fuck you, Bikini! Fuck you, Puerto Rico! The big boys need places to drop heavy metals and radioactive materials! The Soviet Union needed to shit all over Central Asia; we needed to shit over the Pacific. This is Progress. This makes us Safe. It is Wise, Proper, and you are a Hippie if you say otherwise.
@brianesser76: How? Through distributing it?
@sentry_zero: My thoughts exactly.
If they are indeed my thoughts. Hmm.
If they are indeed my thoughts. Hmm.
I think you're generally right, Annalee. I'd add just one thing:
Human history has never seen technology evenly applied.
Let's say the Singularity is Heaven. What does that mean when only a few million at the top have access to Heaven? Will there be a place at the bottom for the rest of us? Will there be a place at all? Labor has progressively grown less powerful as artificial and mechanized labor has taken hold. What fate intelligence when we have artificial and mechanized intelligence? Doesn't sound heavenly to me.
And what about those at the top? Are they really going to agree all the time? Does free energy and tech-as-magic mean that humanity loses the will to dominate, control, or destroy?
Human history has never seen technology evenly applied.
Let's say the Singularity is Heaven. What does that mean when only a few million at the top have access to Heaven? Will there be a place at the bottom for the rest of us? Will there be a place at all? Labor has progressively grown less powerful as artificial and mechanized labor has taken hold. What fate intelligence when we have artificial and mechanized intelligence? Doesn't sound heavenly to me.
And what about those at the top? Are they really going to agree all the time? Does free energy and tech-as-magic mean that humanity loses the will to dominate, control, or destroy?
@Death_By_SnuSnu: Had I the ability, I would give you a star.
@Effin' Eh: Midichlorians were made up in 1998, probably, so it's a fantasy that he retroactively tried to paint as a scifi.
It's space opera.
It's space opera.
@Fauxcused: He was a great actor in the role. He just shouldn't have been allowed more power than the showrunner.
@CmdrHunt - Agent of Time Corps: I actually thought Rev was a heck of a character. Only now, since the original show followed your thought and dumped the ugly preacher, it'll look a lot less original and a lot more Firefly-ripoff to have a clerical char.
Still, I like religious chars in scifi, and I also really like the Magog's design as a species that necessarily lives on death, pain, and rape. That mix made for a lot of potential that they ended up wasting.
Still, I like religious chars in scifi, and I also really like the Magog's design as a species that necessarily lives on death, pain, and rape. That mix made for a lot of potential that they ended up wasting.
@Illundiel: I feel like posting one of the many quotes about defending scoundrels, about liberty being for the guilty as well as the innocent, but fuck. I don't think Ben Franklin's going to get you to see the point.
@Klebert L. Hall: So your point is that the panic will cease, or that there will be no panic?
@Klebert L. Hall: To be clearer, my point is that just because we can't cure things now, that doesn't mean that the many, many things that we cure with antibiotics won't have a sudden effect when we can no longer cure them. If you're trying to say that people get sick now, so no big deal when antibiotics (continue to) lose their punch, I'm not sure you appreciate how many people have had their lives saved by antibiotics (in combination with other methods). Exactly how critical antibiotics are, you'd have to tell me.
@Klebert L. Hall: And I think people would have been willing to call the Black Death apocalyptic, too. Not that that will happen for sure, of course, but novelty isn't inimical to the "apocalypse" category.
@Mecharine: You're right, except that it's regimen.
