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I always understood it as a thought exercise more than anything else. It's a way to quantify things we cannot understand (putative alien civilizations that master technologies we know nothing about).

Actually she gave a pretty good assessment of the situation. In True Detective she would have said: "My best self is just a little before my worst self." That's also why she asks her friend to assist her: to pull the plug when the worst self appears. Anyway, it feels the pacing is almost back...

I'll assume you are not responsible for one of the 5 million views of that:

The RPG Maker scene is strange.

Still great! I am a little worried about the rapey father in law plot line though because it was one of the few weak things from the first season.

A company with decades of experience designing consumer products is better at designing a consumer product than a startup bought by a software company. Not that surprising really.

Seeing the portraits, it's obvious she is overweight, but it's not obvious that she is morbidly obese. I'll spare you a GIS of morbidly obese, and instead here is a picture of Ad?le who looks a bit like what I expected seeing the portraits.

Photoshoped!

To be precise I said: 'similar topics and/or similar scenes.' The whole tunnel operation really made me think about Zero Dark Thirty (the whole part outside the tunnel probably looks better than anything in ZDT, but the tension and the construction of the action scene is a lot better in...

I feel it's a bit shark-jumpy that Quinn's 3rd target is Carrie in episode 2 of - what? - a 12 episodes season? Especially when you consider they have no idea if she was involved or not with the leak.

I must say I did not like it as much as I thought I would. It's partly because, in the end, the plot does not amount to much (it's not like an investigation where things unfold or like a dive into the war on drugs where you go deeper and deeper into the underworld). Also, it is a little sub-par...

That would work if the false positive created by carbon decay were freak accidents. If they were, you take 100 measures, there is a freak accident in one of them, no big deal. But Furry's argument here is that the false positives due to carbon decay might even be more likely than the actual...

My understanding is that there is a huge quantity of neutrinos that run through the IceCube and very very few that interact with it, so it would be extraordinarily unlikely for the tiny stream of anti-neutrinos produced by carbon decay to create false positives. But this difference in orders of...

You guys are still very good at misrepresenting arguments. Furry's point is that the machines used to detect neutrino are looking for events that can also happen because of the natural decay of carbon that is found in the machine. More specifically, in the case of IceCube, the machine is...

Why a flipped neutrino just won the Nobel Prize | ExtremeTech So... the idea is that it got discovered that neutrinos (or should we say neutrini?) can oscillate between their three flavors (electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino). Apparently, a corollary of this is that neutrino must...

A very promising start, because of the complexity it implies.

Because I was hoping someone with a modicum of knowledge on the subject (read: not me) would post about it!

I am a bit disappointed to not see a post about the Nobel prize for the work on neutrinos

This song is pretty ok really, it's just strange as a Bond theme. Maybe it will work with the tone of the movie...

Listening to it again because I just saw the trailer for Son of Saul:

Season 2 is really the shark jumping olympics. They try to keep the same frantic pace as in season 1 and up the ante, but all they manage to do is a hot mess that breaks the bullshit-o-meter. They still pay for this, because several huge things happened in that season that simply cannot be...

That or they just forgot to apply the "mars filter" to their picture taken in Nevada.

I am not the resident boobologist, but it is nothing new. A little trip on the imdb photo gallery should make it clear.

Is it really what is happening here though? My understanding is that they expected to be able to detect something and did not, sosomethingwent wrong. The way you frame it, it seems the most likely culprit is not the theory, but you still can't rule it out until you actually find the culprit.

At a fundamental level, I have a hard time understanding how one can be against Furry's position. You have a theory, you devise an experiment to test it, you expect to detect something with your experiment within a certain time frame, so when time's up and you have not detected your something...

You don't need to have a better model to point at the flaws of a model. Anyway... I was reading about the tools they use to try and detect gravity waves: basically they split a laser in two, have each half go and bounce on a mirror with paths that are orthogonal and of the same length, join...

I never played them, so I was not 100% sure which one of the AvP games were good on PC. Are you saying both the first and second games were good? I think the good one has like flares you fire to both see and help you navigate but only 3 or 4 can be up at the same time or something similar.

Are we talking Alien: Isolation here? Because it's its own story. So is Alien vs Predator on Jaguar and Alien vs Predator on PC which is basically the 3 good Alien games I believe?

Yeah because it's such a big and risky investment

I think you forget the part where Ripley goes through the whole of the Nostromo and back to save the cat. For me, the horror elements of Aliens are superior to the ones of Alien, because it multiples the places where you do not want to be. In Aliens, we go under the floor, over the ceiling...

If you move to see one, it comes sooner:Total Lunar Eclipses Worldwide - Next 10 years

Nope. We will not all agree on that. Anyway, I was about to whine on the usual lack of non english speaking films in the lists as well as everything being recent movies but... for science fiction it's a bit difficult to really whine about that. There is a tradition of science fiction in...

I had a very good look on the full moon three hours ago before the eclipse started and now I have like a 80% cloud cover with the holes not being cooperative... not cool.

Probably something mundane that will make us once again wonder why we are not focusing our efforts on Venus

I saw something similar before... a long time ago... Ghost in the Shell!

Are we talking about that movie where exposure to rocket fuel turns humans into aliens? The one that starts like a mockumentary, but forgets all about it after 20 min? I am just making sure, because that movie was not very good. It was original though.

I am ok with a prequel if it means more Adrianne Palicki and Clarke Peters!

As a programmer you can bargain collectively to ask for regular checks of the ergonomics of your work space to prevent back/shoulder/neck/elbow/wrist/finger/eyes problems!

Body of Lies was 7 years ago already... am I getting less and less confident in Ridley Scott's ability to make a good movie. In his defense, Robin Hood was not that bad, Exodus and The Counselor have poor source material and Prometheus had Lindelof. He also has The Martian to restore my hope.

When I saw Margin Call in theater I was like "yeah that's pretty good, and there is this great scene about building a bridge" and a few weeks back I landed on it on TV and I got glued to it. Good scene after good scene after good scene. I guess it was easier to appreciate the movie the second...