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Amethyst posted:there is a lot about baron munchausen to love but it has serious flaws which you need to willfully ignore its basically a movie created to cause nightmares in children im ok with that it has a naked uma thurman back when she was foxy as poo poo
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pseudorandom name posted:didn't he write an essay or something on how Stalin wasn't all that bad? i think you're thinking of somebody else because i've never seen this and can't find it with google. he's been quite critical of stalinism in articles and interviews before and i enjoyed "perdido street staton", although it was exceedingly rough around the edges. he's improved significantly since then
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:part of me wonders if luc besson (the guy that did Fifth Element) would be able to tackle Dune really well. though besson has a great eye for design he does much better with action (fifth element, the professional) than with political intrigue (the messenger). i'd like to see soderbergh do dune but hes only interested in doing relatively small films these days.
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Bad rear end Boutique posted:more than what i managed, yuck srsly I kinda wish I hadn't started the Void series; I liked the Commonwealth books quite a bit and also enjoyed Fallen Dragon in spite of it being self-insert adolescent wish fulfillment, but given how long the void trilogy was with how much of that waterwalker crap you have to slog through the end was very underwhelming and totes not worth it
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FEMA summer camp posted:srsly all of those "inigo's dream" chapters are damned near their own little fantasy novel. im getting kinda bored reading about edeard's adventures as a police officer, it's way, way too much story and not enough actual plot development the other problem im having is i think hamilton kept too many characters from the Commonwealth books, to the point that its getting a touch silly. oh lah-dee-dah a thousand years have gone by and how about that, all our favorite pals from the last books are still kicking around!! but im such a sucker for all the crazy whiz-bang technology and spaceships and such 
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Jun 25, 2013 19:56
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Three new potentially habitable planets have been found around a star 22 light years away: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1328/ Okay so if the galaxy is absolutely littered with planets that are possibly capable of sustaining life, there's got to be something else out there right.
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yeah p much
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Three new potentially habitable planets have been found around a star 22 light years away: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1328/ yeh but theyre not stupid enough to contact us
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Jun 25, 2013 20:22
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22 light years means we could potentially communicate with them too
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ol qwerty bastard posted:there's got to be something else out there right.
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Bad rear end Boutique posted:
oh yeah that bugged me too, esp. the bit about how one of the main antagonists is the cat and everyone acts like she's a bipedal bag of distilled pure evil, breaking the scale at over 100 gigahitlers, and everyone knew it all along! ...except in the commonwealth books she's just an obnoxious criminal cruella deville in a mech-infantry robot suit who doesn't do anything more evil than some terrible puns and talking like an idiot in general also if you're continuing in the hope that there'll be some kickass whiz-bang space battles, I could be wrong about this since it has been a few years since I went through the trilogy, but I think you're going to be disappointed. Not that there aren't any, but I remember them being somewhat quick and underwhelming.
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Jun 25, 2013 20:25
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aliens will either be too alien for us to experience any empathy towards or similar enough that they're just as lovely as us extraterrestrial life wont solve your ennui, sorry
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Breakfast All Day posted:extraterrestrial life wont solve your ennui, sorry a double row of big ol' green alien titties
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Jun 25, 2013 20:31
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does hamilton jizz out furiously over nanotech in his other books too?
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I furiously jizz out nanotech (i mean look at the flagellum of a sperm cell; if that isn't nanotechnology then i don't know what is)
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:does hamilton jizz out furiously over nanotech in his other books too? not that I can remember, you're talking about fallen dragon right? greg bear gushes for nanotech in ...I think it was slant, but he puts a lot of thought into it though so it's kinda interesting for instance some building is made with a gold outer covering since because gold is pretty inert chemically-speaking nanobros have a hard time breaking it down
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ol qwerty bastard posted:I furiously jizz out nanotech
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Jun 25, 2013 21:03
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nothing is improbable given sufficient time and space
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haveblue posted:nothing is improbable given sufficient time and space except for your mom giving up her crack habit
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FEMA summer camp posted:not that I can remember, you're talking about fallen dragon right? yeah
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Nomnom Cookie posted:except for your mom giving up her crack habit hard to find sufficient space for his mom in the first place, anyway
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ol qwerty bastard posted:hard to find sufficient space for his mom in the first place, anyway buffe
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Hashtag Nascar posted:I'd like to watch flash Gordon's trip to gor tbh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcKvjVsYILw lol titties in the preview
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SmokaDustbowl posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcKvjVsYILw i remember watching this on tv like 15 years ago 
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Moist von Lipwig posted:i remember watching this on tv like 15 years ago haha word I taped it off TV onto VHS to watch with my friends when we got high
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Jun 26, 2013 01:04
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Okay so if the galaxy is absolutely littered with planets that are possibly capable of sustaining life, there's got to be something else out there right. yeah slime molds and protoferns either we're the first and most advanced or we're the only ones
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angry_keebler posted:yeah slime molds and protoferns that's not necessarily true, if there was some super smart aliens hangin out on the tail end of the carina-sagittarius we'd never know about it. they could be 100,000 years ahead of us and it wouldn't matter unless they beamed a signal right at us with insane intensity due to the inverse square law. not saying they are out there but chances are high that alien life, and possibly some intelligent life, exists. of course we'll never meet or communicate with them 
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Moist von Lipwig posted:that's not necessarily true, if there was some super smart aliens hangin out on the tail end of the carina-sagittarius we'd never know about it. they could be 100,000 years ahead of us if intelligent life forms when planetary conditions are right then even with very conservative estimates there should be a few hundred evenly distributed earths with civilizations with a 1-10 million year advantage on us and that's just too long
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I'd wager that if intelligent life forms elsewhere it usually happens like with most intelligent life on Earth (crows, cephalopods, apes, dolphins, etc.). They become smart enough to figure out poo poo in their environment because it gives them a fitness advantage, but they don't get some rare confluence of factors that allow them to become ridiculously smart. Like, once you hit the intelligence level of a monkey, say, you don't really get any advantage from increased intelligence until you increase it by a whole lot more, which is evolutionarily improbable and requires some process that gives a continuous advantage to individuals that are more intelligent to the extent that it outweighs the relative disadvantage of having to grow and support huge cumbersome brains. An octopus might be smart, but a group of them is never going to be able to build a spaceship. (I know it's dangerous to speculate about evolution but it is interesting to note that intelligence has evolved independently several times on Earth; just not the sort of crazy all-encompassing intelligence that allows for things like radio transmitters or space programs or computers) But really, yeah, it's way likelier that we're just going to find single-celled life when we look, considering that was all that existed for the majority of time that life on Earth has existed.
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my theory is that if we ever get a recognisable intelligent radio signal it'll be massive anticlimax and disappear from the headlines within a week
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even if we find alien life that we recognize as intelligent there's a big list of conditions that imo have to be fullfilled before any sort of meaningful communication can even be possible. like a similar set and range of senses, scale and sense of time, environment. like, how would you even attempt to communicate with something that perceives time 100x faster or slower than us (or even 10x) or has much longer or shorter lifespan, or sees a completely different range of the electromagnetic spectrum or some crazy poo poo like that. what i mean is, unless the universe is full of startrek-style latex-forehead space-humans speaking space-english, communication with alien intelligence might be completely futile and/or pointless. im getting the feeling that were much too anthropocentric (well, duh) in our thinking about alien life, there might be a lot of alienmans out there, but not the kind we'd want or expect
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watched this last night while playing some pideo shames i thought it was p good, the only true snake
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hubris.height posted:watched this last night while playing some pideo shames escape from la is a poo poo escape from new york
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grate deceiver posted:even if we find alien life that we recognize as intelligent there's a big list of conditions that imo have to be fullfilled before any sort of meaningful communication can even be possible. like a similar set and range of senses, scale and sense of time, environment. like, how would you even attempt to communicate with something that perceives time 100x faster or slower than us (or even 10x) or has much longer or shorter lifespan, or sees a completely different range of the electromagnetic spectrum or some crazy poo poo like that. im basically betting that intelligent life will "verbally" communicate with emitted light and "see" with emitted sound it will be opposite of us and we will by nature of our senses be fundamentally unable to be in the same room as each other because we will blow up each others senses
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angry_keebler posted:if intelligent life forms when planetary conditions are right then even with very conservative estimates there should be a few hundred evenly distributed earths with civilizations with a 1-10 million year advantage on us and that's just too long on a galactic scale this is not a long time and there's too many millions of possible destinations. you have to remember if there were some civs with a year advantage, there's a good chance a few wiped themselves out. speaking galactically we're on the very rim, if there are civs closer to the center, or halfway between close to the center and us there's very little motivation to go this far out when the interior is more packed just theory crafting soz
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hubris.height posted:watched this last night while playing some pideo shames 
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MORE CURLY FRIES posted:escape from la is a poo poo escape from new york i love e f ny and have seen it a bunch but never seen la, was p excited when it was on netflix last night. i enjoyed it.
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me @ ur postin
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that's bruce campbell btw
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:that's bruce campbell btw wow no poo poo. wow.
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