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I saw it this morning and...I don't know what to say. It was boring. The two people a couple rows in front of me fell asleep. Normally I don't mind changes from the source material but the things they did to the Mandarin are just silly. Other than that there is so much poorly timed comic...

I'm still very disappointed in the movie. I've been antsy in my pantsy ever seen I saw that awesome teaser trailer that looked like the original trailer from Alien. I've seen it three times now, once with the deleted scenes. While the deleted scenes do explain some of the odd behavior shown...

That's not entirely true. While running uses your muscles differently, strengthening them in other ways will still be helpful before you set out on a jog. Stronger muscles in your legs and core will reduce the pressure on your joints which in turn will cause less friction of the muscle tissue...

God has an excellent rebranding department.

Nowhere did I say the need for resources was an anthropocentric viewpoint. That would be silly to think even with my limited knowledge of science. I do say that it is quite possible that their way of looking at the world around them is so different as to be incomprehensible. While becoming...

I don't think that's true. Only about 1% of the human population has a predisposition for psychotic or sociopathic behavior. What we would likely consider to be "evil." The rest of us certainly have it in us to do "evil" things but we're not as equipped with dealing with the psychological...

Sorry about the misunderstanding Morrus. I'm singling you out but it's prevalent throughout the thread. This is a very human centered, anthropocentric, way of looking at it. You're making the assumption that the aliens have political and economic structures as we have here in the developed...

And about weaponry: Isn't it possible to send weapons with high kinetic potential their way? Something like a long needle made of wolfram flung around the sun. Surely the tech doesn't exist yet in either delivery or targeting but if possible would seem like an effective and efficient way to...

Morrus, correct me if I'm wrong and please do, but it seems to me you think that because we can't do something now we can't do it ever. If the fear of dying off as a species is palpable enough, we will gladly bankrupt the world if it means we have a chance of survival. Granted, everything we...

You don't. Que research into planet busting weaponry.

I'm talking about people working up other people. And if those people have influence you really only need a few. It's not about what we can do now, it's about what we fear they can do. And if we fear they can attack us we will have no choice but to gear our economy towards that end. I...

You're making the assumption that we know that they're not concerned with territory. You're also very level-headed and logical about this situation. Can you say for certain others will be the same? Can you say for certain our leaders, most of whom are businessmen and graduates of law and...

I understand the premise is that their tech is the same as our tech. Since we discovered each other nearly a century ago, the tech that we would have now would be considerably more advanced than what we actually have now if resources had been spent differently. The issue is trust. Can we...

Assuming we've known of their existence for as long we've been able to receive radio waves I think our extra-terrestrial military capability would be quite a bit more advanced. But let's assume a military exchange isn't possible at this point because of logistical hurdles. We don't know what...

If communication isn't possible I think war would be the only option with total annihilation of one or both of the species. This is from a human perspective and the fear that they may be exploitative in nature like us. I don't mean that as a critique of us. It's just that the dominant...

They have them in stock in the American Book Center in Amsterdam. Otherwise Amazon has it in stock. My friend is buying all of Lem's stuff, so I'll be reading them once I plow through the Song of Ice and Fire tomes.

"No daughter and no Andrea make Governor go something something."

I've seen it. I suppose it's better than the last one. I disliked the corny dialogue and to a lesser extent the hackneyed action sequences but the action was nifty and cool enough in the first hour and a half that it had me thinking it was a fun action packed popcorn flicked. Things, however...

Mark, all you need is a thread asking us what we're wearing and you'd be the perfect overly attached partner :p. I'm re-reading Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem. It's a book about making contact with another species and the extreme difficulties the crew face when confronted with something truly alien...

He wasn't abused by Merle though, was he? I thought it was a his father from a bit of conversation between the two a few episodes ago. The Governor is a complete and utter dick for doing that. He needs to be put down and I have a good bottle of whiskey ready to celebrate when that happens.