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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    11:36 AM

    In reply to The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping To Ruin The Future
    I'm a skeptic by nature, but I'm also in the 'better safe than sorry camp, so I tend to side with the environmentalists on this. That said, I do find it interesting that many religious right whackos are starting to jump on the global warming bandwagon. If that's not a good indicator that there's problems with the science, then I don't know what is. #ecology
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    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    09:03 AM

    In reply to Robot Detectives Battle Superhero Bastards For Your Comics Dollars
    Whilst I'm on entirely the wrong side of the Atlantic to have a hope of getting it before the trade, the Wall-E series actually has me really excited, as does Supergod. Although I'm reasonably sure a Supergod movie done by Pixar isn't going to be happening aaaaany time soon... #avengers
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    09:02 AM

    In reply to Robot Detectives Battle Superhero Bastards For Your Comics Dollars
    This week is Phonogram week! #avengers
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    07:40 AM

    In reply to The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping To Ruin The Future
    He probably believes things because he wants them to be true.

    It's important to remember that politics corrupts science at least as much as industry does, though. There isn't really a lot of scientific objectivity around, anymore.
    -Kle. #ecology
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    Image of GodofMonkeys GodofMonkeys
    06:39 AM

    In reply to What Happens When ABC Runs Out Of V?
    ABC isn't worried. They have their secret weapon: "devotion"

    This show got high ratings? Boggles the mind. #v
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    Image of Alessar Alessar
    07:14 AM

    @GodofMonkeys: Not at all. A lot of people will stop to gawk at a trainwreck. Unexpected ratings on a first episode really mean very little -- look at the Bionic Woman remake. #v
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    05:09 AM

    In reply to What Happens When ABC Runs Out Of V?
    I won't watch another remake.and after this show dies they will probably fill it with a reality show or another remake. #v
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    Image of Dresan Dresan
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Lost "Cantina Scene" From Abrams' Star Trek
    Oh... I saw "Lost" and "Abrams" in the same sentence and blocked everything out.
    ...
    This seems nice I guess. #startrek
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    Image of cylon_conspiracy cylon_conspiracy
    11/09/09

    In reply to The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping To Ruin The Future
    There is no scientific consensus on global warming. "Fire burns", consensus. Man-made global warming (or climate change as you guys are calling it now just in case things get cooler), no consensus.

    "Political science" isn't meant to be taken literally.
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    11/09/09

    @cylon_conspiracy: this is the very problem with the concept of the singularity; noise on the grid. How do we teach a computer, or more importantly, how does it teach itself what is the most accurate information? Garbage in, Garbage out. The singularity will lead us to doom if the "final solution" has incorrect data. The main problem of the internet age is that with a million voices screaming nonsense the voices of truth get drowned out. this will only get worse, as our capability to process data increases. data must be interpreted by humans, that is where the promise of the singularity is hollow, it still relies on human judgement, which is fallible. #ecology
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/09/09

    In reply to What Happens When ABC Runs Out Of V?
    If the numbers hold up over the next few weeks it will create an interesting situation. If the viewers come back the networks will feel they can get away with anything. Long hiatuses for cable shows (BSG, Sopranos) will confirm this.

    If it tanks on return, what will they think? Unfortunately, I doubt that their egos will allow them to learn. they will either blame unfaithful viewers or a drop off in the shows quality.

    I can even see them moving it to another time slot - either to compete with something or as a tent pole which would further confuse the issue. #v
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    Image of psychiccheese psychiccheese
    11:27 AM

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: They should move it to Thursdays at 9 pm. I never have anything to watch. #v
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    Image of wanion wanion
    11/09/09

    In reply to The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping To Ruin The Future
    "but I think it's naive to ignore the trend of the past century - or the past 10,000 years."

    Oh really, 10,000 whole years? Wow, a species manages to stick around for a few millennia and and it's all set to discover perpetual motion, fairy dust, or whatever fantasy technology it's going to take to bring about his bright, exponentially expanding, no-strings-attached future.

    Which is just going off his opening about how the critics of his Kurzweil love letter believe: "that, just as bacteria proliferating in a petri dish will eventually exhaust the resources, we too will hit a limit. I think these skeptics are missing the lessons of history"
    What's the lesson? That just because humans haven't yet hit a limit on the finite amount of resources on the planet, that there must not be one?

    And then there's this: "Unlike Malthus, we can look around and see that we already have the energy and technology to feed a larger population than exists on Earth today." Yes, I'm sure it's easy to see when you're sitting around in New York, in the United States, and not, say, some country where starvation is a routine occurrence. I'm sure JT can also see how much bigger a population we can feed and also when we'll have to stop the growth of the human population at its current rate, and also how to do this without hurting anybody's feelings. #ecology
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    Image of Anekanta - Space Hippy! Anekanta - Space Hippy!
    11/09/09

    In reply to The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping To Ruin The Future
    Well put CJ. This Tierney dude sounds incredibly naive about problems like poverty, famine, and disease which already exist today--which seems inexcusable for a science columnist for a major newspaper.

    Unfortunately this is pretty common--an unwavering faith in progress that denies the reality that nothing in this world comes without consequences. #ecology
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    11/09/09

    @Anekanta - Space Hippy!: A technophile in the most white-bourgeois-consumer sense of the word. The ignorance inherent in his ideas is crippling. The very existence of technology provides salvation? The same way that technology provided the salvation with the IBM indexing computers in Germany? Technology cannot exist in a vacuum of morality or rational guidance. #ecology
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    Image of Anekanta - Space Hippy! Anekanta - Space Hippy!
    10:48 AM

    @Byronotron: Indeed! #ecology
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/09/09

    In reply to What Happens When ABC Runs Out Of V?
    Start each episode with Morena Baccarin talking to some minion Visitor and saying "You know, this reminds me of that time we invaded an Earth in a parallel dimension, and I had that long hair and 1980s evil bitch mask" before cutting to the original episode. Then, at the end, cap each episode off with Baccarin laughing and saying "Now, that was a sticky situation!"

    I would watch that. Then again, I think you could throw out the actual episode and have Morena Baccarin just talk about anything and I'll watch it. #v
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    Image of Jesse Astle Jesse Astle
    11/09/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: As long as its not about poop. #v
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/09/09

    @TotalFanGirl: If she has her face on, I would be mesmerized.

    @Jesse Astle: If she does with her typical demeanor and elegance, then I would... #v
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    Image of Chuck Chuck
    11/09/09

    In reply to What Happens When ABC Runs Out Of V?
    I surely can't be the first person to suggest that if you run out of V, you just score more from Lafayette, can I? #v
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    Image of wrecks wrecks
    11/09/09

    @Chuck: Just don't drink a whole vial. Ouch. #v
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    Image of Invisible Circus Invisible Circus
    11/09/09

    @Chuck: beat me to it. well played #v
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    Image of DrMathochist DrMathochist
    11/09/09

    In reply to The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping To Ruin The Future
    (a) Tierney's neither a skeptic nor overly gullible; he's a contrarian. He's the guy in the audience at Cloverfield rooting for the monster.

    (b) As I and every other mathematician keep saying, EXPONENTIAL GROWTH DOES NOT LEAD TO A SINGULARITY. THERE IS NO BLOW-UP IN FINITE TIME UNDER THESE CONDITIONS. THIS IS COVERED IN CALCULUS 2, PEOPLE! #ecology
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    Image of FunkyJ FunkyJ
    11/09/09

    In reply to The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping To Ruin The Future
    Funny how you bash Tierney for believing in myths, but then fall for one of the biggest myths about humankind - the Dark Ages.

    The Dark Ages were a myth, expounded by Renaissance scholars and those with an axe to grind against the Roman Catholic Church.

    Recent excavations and discoveries in Europe and England have revealed the whole idea that humanity dwindled into a technological and social backwater is, in the words on one scholar, pure bollocks.

    Watch just one season of Time Team and you'll quickly come to realise the Europeans of that time were far from technologically and socially backwards. #ecology
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