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    HG Wells and Jules Verne Battle Over the Future of Science Fiction

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    Image of Althestane Althestane
    12/05/09

    In reply to HG Wells and Jules Verne Battle Over the Future of Science Fiction
    I love a woman who can find contemporary applicability and humor in characters, situations and personalities of the past! Kate Beaton, you are the only such woman I know of.
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    Image of ParryLost ParryLost
    12/05/09

    @Althestane:
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    Image of Ghede Ghede
    12/06/09

    @ParryLost: Hardly fair. He was being extremely specific, basically saying "Kate Beaton is the only woman I know of who writes funny historical comics."
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    Image of Althestane Althestane
    12/06/09

    @ParryLost: She's right, we ARE so lazy! (loved that strip when she posted it!)

    But yea, as Ghede explained, my comment was meant more as a compliment of her intellect and her talent for making simultaneously funny and poignant commentary on past and present figures. I just chose to express it in a less than straightforward way.

    Though in your defense, i did use the phrase "love a woman" which i'm led to understand can conjure up thoughts of conjugation......but in defense of that phrase, she IS rather cute. I mean, that's if you're into witty historians who can draw excellent comics.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    12/04/09

    In reply to HG Wells and Jules Verne Battle Over the Future of Science Fiction
    I'd watch the Sexy Tudors.
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    12/04/09

    In reply to HG Wells and Jules Verne Battle Over the Future of Science Fiction
    God, Kate Beaton never fails to entertain. My favorite strip of hers is the one with Beethoven and his ward.

    That and the Mystery Solving Teens Solving Mysteries.
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    Image of klew klew
    12/04/09

    @Smeagol92055: My favorite is the one with Tycho Brahe and Kepler.
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    Image of Ben Thomas Ben Thomas
    12/04/09

    In reply to HG Wells and Jules Verne Battle Over the Future of Science Fiction
    "It was trying to make social metaphors" has now become my go-to bullshit excuse.

    Never again will I get shrieked at when the dog makes social metaphors on the Persian rug.
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    Image of cmg cmg
    12/04/09

    In reply to HG Wells and Jules Verne Battle Over the Future of Science Fiction
    the word dirigible never fails to entertain me.
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    Image of Finsbury Finsbury
    12/04/09

    In reply to HG Wells and Jules Verne Battle Over the Future of Science Fiction
    Awww, Kate Beaton love!
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Canuck Julius Seizure - Canuck
    12/04/09

    @Finsbury: Isn't she the best?

    I was a teensy bit disappointed - from the headline I expected body armour, sweaty profiles, weapons and Wagnerian music.
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    Image of TomSkylark TomSkylark
    12/04/09

    @Finsbury: Kate Beaton is the second most gratifying thing about being an English Ph.D. student. Easily.
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    Image of Aurangzeb Aurangzeb
    12/04/09

    @TomSkylark: She's the most gratifying thing about being a History Ph.D. student. Easily.
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    Image of Zidel333 Zidel333
    12/04/09

    @TomSkylark: Have to ask...what's #1?
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    12/04/09

    @Zidel333: The trim.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    12/04/09

    In reply to HG Wells and Jules Verne Battle Over the Future of Science Fiction
    Well, there goes my evening. So much for studying.

    The Mary Shelley one made me lol at the library. Lord Byron inserted into any kind of fiction makes it more hilarious/raunchy.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    12/04/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: why on earth would you be studying on a friday night anway?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    12/04/09

    @tetracycloide: Exams are looming. Plus I have a hot date with the post-apocalyptic future tomorrow (going to The Road). Then I might go out for wings.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    12/04/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: i'm still confused, does your calander not have sundays? monday mornings? does viggo know you're 'dating' him?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    12/04/09

    @tetracycloide: You caught me . . . I'm a huge nerd.

    And no, Viggo does not yet know we are dating. If he did I think he'd be disturbed by my habit of referring to him only as Aragorn.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    12/04/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: i don't know, he's a method actor so he might not even notice.
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    11/26/09

    In reply to Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?
    I have visited Arcosanti about 12 times over 25 years. Basically it is pretty, and a nice show-and-tell item where one may talk about arcologies. What it is not, and never has been, is a serious attempt to build an arcology. It is the world's largest build-your-own-house project combined with a community garden and, well, lots of pot.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/26/09

    In reply to Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?
    "Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?"

    If so, it will only be because nobody actually wants to live in an arcology. It's been decades, and the place is nowhere near "mega". I expect the first one will go up a lot faster. Heck, the Burj Dubai is a better choice for the first arcology.

    "The idea of a sprawl-free city seems attractive and smarter for our long-term survival."

    How's that, exactly? I'll give you "attractive", but the latter seems hard to support logically.
    -Kle.
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    Image of nexialist nexialist
    11/26/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: @Klebert L. Hall: reduction of sprawl actually fits logically into the current sustainable development paradigms for urban planning that are a result of the brundtland report. it ties into the notion of "compact city" which features high density, mixed-use, and pedestrian proximity. the notion stems from the traditional European city. this concept of city is intended to reduce carbon footprint as well as use of cars and thus be sustainable. my two cents.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/27/09

    @nexialist:
    Sure, compact cities are efficient.

    Making the leap to the idea that they improve the likelihood of our long-term survival as a species is fanciful, at best.
    -Kle.
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    Image of nexialist nexialist
    11/28/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: that always depends on our modes of production. if we find an economy based on resources that are not limited, then we're fine.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/28/09

    @nexialist:
    I also strongly doubt that the collapse of civilization=human extinction. Resource crises might cause the former, but they are unlikely to cause the latter.
    -Kle.
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    Image of nexialist nexialist
    11/28/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: in a biological sense i would agree with that. in the context of the original question, "The idea of a sprawl-free city seems attractive and smarter for our long-term survival," i can only speak in relation to the city in the European and North American context; the Chinese city e.g. is already something different in the way how spaces are allocated to cultural use. what i refer to is less a biological, more a cultural context of urbanism.
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/25/09

    In reply to Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?
    is it taking it too far when a fan builds not his favorite character's costume, not his favorite fictional vehicle, but his favorite Mega City #1 ?
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    Image of IraeNicole IraeNicole
    11/25/09

    In reply to Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?
    I would think that putting it in the city would dramatically increase the cost needed for the project.
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    11/25/09

    In reply to Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?

    I'm waiting for the day when we can build something like this: Shimizu TRY 2004 Mega-City Pyramid. Obviously influenced by the Tyrell Corporation.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    11/25/09


    @EdificeComplex: You mean...
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    11/25/09

    @mr_dude: The Shimizu Pyramid if it were to ever be built would be about 88 square kilometers in building area. That's roughly 245 Pyongyang Pyramids, so not quite. I while give the North Koreans credit for being ambitious though.
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    Image of rod rod
    11/25/09

    In reply to Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?
    Arcosanti has been more or less unchanged for 30 years. Let's hope that speaks to efficacy of the people involved, not the conceptual failure of the arcology concept.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/25/09

    In reply to Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?
    If this shit goes down. Dibs on the Lawgiver and the Lawmaster. Damit! I wanna be a judge!! You WILL obey the Laaaaaw under my dome!!

    That just sounds a bit strange!!
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    Image of hamshank hamshank
    11/25/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): really, I think we need fear you more than the going down of the shit ...
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/25/09

    @hamshank: It depends Where 'The shit' ends up!!

    #calendar
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/25/09

    In reply to Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?
    Yes, Simon, stick it in the middle of a city. We saw how well that worked for Todos Santos.
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