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Very likely the first interstellar travel will be on generational arks... So? Factor in special relativity and you don't even need to quite reach the speed of light to colonize the entire universe eventually. Just because the trip might take 1 or more generations A) Doesn't mean people won't...

Eh, there's plenty of semi-rational explanations for the fermi paradox, including von neumann probes. It's based on assumptions anyway, like "an alien species will have the same desire for exploration/expansion as humans" and "technology will come about naturally." I personally think that...

One of the videos recently briefly mentioned that there was 1-key aoe loot. Don't know if that's actually the case or not.

Fermi paradox is just what gogusrl just described... the statistical improbability that we haven't encountered aliens yet based on the Drake equation. As to growing technology outstripping travel time, I'll just mention that our own space travel is significantly behind what we're capable of...

The Cruise. Watch if you appreciate yourself some poetry. 1998 indi docu about a NYC tour bus conductor. http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/the_cruise# Best link I could find.

Download Calibre e-book manager, assuming you do want to use google books. It lets you convert to different file types in bulk.

First episode I've really liked since it came back from the special. Had a lot of character stuff that they've been pussyfooting around the last several episodes. Too bad they nigged it all at the end. Still awesome though, I love it when they have anything Tardis-centric.

I love TNG, but are we really calling it "true sci fi?" It's a space opera, the single most disdained sub-genre of science fiction within science fiction. Probably the most enjoyable, admittedly, but calling it true sci fi is like calling paranormal teen romance true fantasy.

The credibility of voters disintegrated the instant the Khaleesi lost to a random sports illustrated slut and Olivia Munn beat anything at all.

I love the grief this game's creator gets. He's no doubt going to kill himself soon at which point the Internet will rejoice in its success.

People really picked Jessica Biel over a teen that showed her tits? I don't know you anymore, Internet.

Pretty much gave me an instant orgasm when I heard this the other day. Whatever happened to Zeste btw? Only other forum goer that I knew lived in Provo.

I remember a quote from an EQ2 dev back in the day that said there's a major problem if the people making the game would rather play WoW in their spare time than their own game. My impression is that the Wildstar group enjoys their own game, which gives it a lot of promise imo.

Wasn't going to bother researching, if I'm honest. I gave the bump to Middleton just cause she's had a spike in celeb status the last year. May be I underestimated the power of tits in a moment of confusion. Emma Watson beats out Pinder in any case though, I predict.

Nothing.

My picks are infallible. It killed something deep inside of me to pick Mila over Scarlet though.

Professor made us do an ode this week. Was spectacular to see the difference in comprehension between my fellow students and the teacher, a baby boomer. Anyway: SO ANGSTY

If you get the Xbox360 controller, keep in mind to get the wired one. Trying to plug a wireless one in with its charging cable doesn't work without an additional adapter, unfortunately.

In this particular game it's just a difference of mandatory vs non-mandatory. PVE you can go turn yourself PVP-enabled at the homebase, at which point you can go fight any of the enemy that also happens to be pvp-enabled.

Just download Utorrent V2.1 or somesuch. No sense using the ad versions when you don't really have/need to. In Utorrent's case, newer does not mean better.

XBL: KorioniEQ Steam: Kinklebots

Update on the Saitek Eclipse II keyboard... the left Ctrl and M keys are dying. The M doesn't work maybe every 3rd time while the Ctrl only works one in three. Gonna RMA it if I can :\

Affirmative action working as intended.

I share my birthday with Robert Downey Jr. and Heath Ledger... I foresee difficult times ahead.

I use a pair of Senn HD 555's and they're amazing, but fair warning, people near you hear about 1/5th the sound you do. My wife can tell me how I'm doing in TF2 when she's studying in bed a few feet away. Technically it's part of the design to make the audio better, but still something to...

Revised, with a second chapter added: (didn't fix the formating/italics like I did for the last version, meh)

My panties got wet just now when they announced the christmas special is going to span 2 episodes.

Oh no worries. You're volunteering your own time, after all. Anyway, any kind of criticism you have for it would be appreciated. I'm going to be writing an expanded version tomorrow which may or may not be a rewrite, so any perspective you have would help me going forward.

Think that's the first time I've ever heard someone express the sentiment that a show just doesn't have enough bottle episodes...

If I don't finish a book, I usually stop reading it within the first 50 pages. Like Eddings' Elder Gods. That shit was terrible straight off the bat.

I respect Bungie as a company. I didn't play Halo after #3, so I don't know if they got terrible or not, but I enjoyed those more than most people here might claim to. I thought they brought a level of refinement to FPS's that was nonexistent in consoles at the time. I look forward to seeing...

Thanks for the input, definitely stuff that I could easily implement to make it a better piece. It's a creative writing class and we're still dwelling a lot in poetry, so that may very well have been a factor in my word density. The only parameters that we were given for it was within the...

Which one was the "anticipation" episode? The American Idol/X-factor one or the memory rewinding episode? The memory episode wasn't my favorite, but I thought the other was fantastic. In any case, all of the episodes are incredibly unique with poignant social commentary. They pass so far...

I wrote a quick piece of SciFi flash fiction for a class a couple days ago. It's barely further than a first draft and obviously needs a lot of work (both in story and factually). Plus, it kind of steals much of its theme from Eternal Sonata. But I'll post it here, just to contribute. Anyone...

I used to only be able to do 1-2 max. I would lose interest in books too easily if I tried to split my time/attention. That said, since this semester started, I've been reading 3-5 books concurrently along with 4 classic short stories (2 American Literature and 2 SciFi) per day. It's hard for...

I kept looking for him to say, "Sorry about DA 2. We'll do better." Not interested.

This mini-series is finally back for season 2. Unfortunately only 3 episodes per season, but they're some of the highest quality TV that's been made.

Yeah, they seemed to be going for more of an all-around evenly distributed anthology based on theme. Even the index has the stories listed by alphabetical author, but then re-lists them into categories of Alien Encounters, Apocalypse/Post-Apocalypse, Artificial/Posthuman Life-Forms, Computers...

Just read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep for the first time and might've come thiiiiiiis close to becoming a nihilist. Powerful shit. For anyone really interested in scifi, pick up the Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Is a compilation of many of the best short stories I've ever...

Alana was hilarious. Absolutely the worst person at every single thing they did. Then they get to what's supposed to be hervery specificskillset and she doesn't know a single answer. Made my day. Anyway, has anyone else taken a closer look at the sets and realized that this is likely the...