Kinda loving the “murderbot” short stories by Martha Wells, they’re delightful.
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“White Christian atheism” = disbelief in the existence of a white Christian god?
I’ve seen all Star Trek original series eps multiple times. The Doomsday Machine was on yesterday and I noticed that Commodore Decker rubs those plastic data tape things between his fingers while he’s slouching in the Captain’s chair, like Captain Queeg. Nice touch.
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A+ Christmastime recommendation for all you TZ heads out there. Season 2, Ep. 11.
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OF COURSE I’M DRUNK OFFICER I’M INTOXICATED ON THE WONDER AND JOY THAT IS CHRISTMAS EVE
This blows the doors off the Charlie Brown Christmas special.
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Art Carney was a good Santa.
That episode will forever be, in my mind, The One Where They Fight A Massive Joint In Space
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“Since Carl Sagan’s time, there’s been lots of research,” said study co-author Jonathan H. Jiang, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech. “Especially since the Hubble Space Telescope and Kepler Space Telescope, we have lots of knowledge about the densities [of gas and stars] in the Milky Way galaxy and star formation rates and exoplanet formation … and the occurrence rate of supernova explosions. We actually know some of the numbers [that were mysteries at the time of the famous ‘Cosmos’ episode].”
Modeling the evolution of the Milky Way over time with those factors in mind, they found that the probability of life emerging based on known factors peaked about 13,000 light-years from the galactic center and 8 billion years after the galaxy formed. Earth, by comparison, is about 25,000 light-years from the galactic center, and human civilization arose on the planet’s surface about 13.5 billion years after the Milky Way formed (though simple life emerged soon after the planet formed.)
In other words, we’re likely a frontier civilization in terms of galactic geography and relative latecomers to the self-aware Milky Way inhabitant scene.
Most of these other civilizations that still exist in the galaxy today are likely young, due to the probability that intelligent life is fairly likely to eradicate itself over long timescales. Even if the galaxy reached its civilizational peak more than 5 billion years ago, most of the civilizations that were around then have likely self-annihilated, the researchers found .
LOL we built cities on this stupid thing
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on rock and roll
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I’ve been re-reading Dune in advance of the movie. It’s very well done? A much better read than I remembered.
I’m kind of surprised no one’s tried to make Dune into an HBO series; it hits a lot of the same fantasy palace intrigue notes that GoT hit. idk how they’re going to cram all of the story and worldbuilding into a 2-3 hour movie, but then Peter Jackson managed to pull it off with the LoTR books.
The movie is only the first half, the second movie/second half will only be made if this first is successful. Yes, dumb af.
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I agree Dune seems a better fit for a TV series, plus they could help atone for GOT by fixing the shitty last two books written by his son.
They did that with Annihilation, right? It makes sense to me, I always thought it was ballsy for Peter Jackson to get funding for all three movies upfront
Too late for you but having seen the movie (euro privilege) my advice for others would be to not do this. I’m pretty sure I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I didn’t know in advance how it was going to play out.
“Re-reading”