Exactly. I thought that at the end of everyone of those TOS episodes. Because a whole planet of people who depended on a god-computer for everything will suddenly be able to leap frog over a few hundred thousand years of evolution and become totally self sustaining.
"but amidst the chaos of the crashing dollar, some gangs — such as the biker socialist Regulators — have eschewed money in favor of independent reputation economies."
Sounds awesome. Where do I sign up and do I get a bitchin' jacket?
Dear Hollywood,
Please stop. Stop everything you do. Stop existing and making movies. Forever.
And I hate you all.
Sincerely full of awful, bubbling hate,
Ryan
"Do not end your kung fu film with boob lasers." !?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!
"Always end your every film with boob lasers!"
Fixed it for you.
If I donated my skin for book binding, it would just be my luck that it would be used to bind a Reader's Digest condensed version of Eat Pray Love.
Zing!!!!!
The best/worst of those six page meal descriptions was the whole page description of the fermented and clotted mare's milk the Dothraki drink. Mmmmmm...
"exposing the testes of rats"
Don't get the chance to read a phrase like that everyday.
I was thinking the same thing. To day there looking for any excuse to cut NASA's budget.
I will certainly agree with you that the mood isn't there. The money could be if we restructured the tax code so that corporations and the richest of the rich paid their fair share. However, whether or not any candidate is going to do that or not, we can safely assume Gingrich won't. A moon base would be a hard sell right now. I just always like to call attention to the revenue rather than deficit problem the US is facing.
The deficit isn't really the problem. All through the major economic boom of the 50s and 60s, the US had a bigger deficit than we do know proportionally to GDP. The deficit hawks in congress have just used it as a rhetorical device to wage a top down form of class warfare, rich against poor. If we can spend one billion a day fighting two unjust wars we can certainly afford to invest in progressive science.
I'm not playing devil's advocate or being contrary, I actually enjoyed the soundtrack.
No, no stars in the galaxies that revolve around black holes will be sucked in. Like everything else, black holes have a finite mass which means they have a finite gravitational pull. So, stars that are currently outside of the black hole's event horizon (which is all of them) will not ever be pulled into the black hole. For example, if the sun suddenly turned into a black hole (which is impossible but we'll go with it for a rhetorical device) its gravitational pull would be unchanged.
Haha, I hope we didn't trounce too hard. I think a lot of WoT readers got really frustrated with Jordan for drawing the story out to unnecessary lengths and for sticking so hard to old cliches. Just think about the way Rand deals with any female character. The amount of braid pulling is astonishing...
Yes! Perfect.
The James T. Kirk that I know would have better last words than "Oh my."
Yet one more reason to be highly dubious of evolutionary psychology. It seems like every evolutionary psych paper I read is trying to shore up old stereotypes.
I imagine if we in the US tried to make a federal science holiday, the religious right would throw a fit.
Pressure to publish+vodka=black flap based lifeforms.
I really don't think that Jordan was a good writer. The WoT started out as something fun to read, but it was never actually that good. After book 5 it got worse and by book 8 I gave up and will never go back. I will say he engaged in some ambitious world building and I do like the way he treated magic. Other than that he had incredibly sexist, one dimensional female characters, the pace of a glacier, and was very derivative of other fantasy writers. Say what you will about Martin's characters not being likable or whatever, but he is a damn fine writer, which Jordan simply was not. I certainly won't criticize you for liking them better, that's all personal taste, but Jordan just can't measure up as a writer.
