I thought DA:O was abysmally slow and unenjoyable, but really liked DA2 so I guess my opinion sucks and shouldn't be heeded.

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Fusion would be great, but it's decades away from being viable. Fission is effective and safe right now.

Quote from: SexyPiranha on November 12, 2014, 06:35:47 PM

It's closer than you think. As stated earlier Lockheed Martin is confident they can get something up within a decade and believe they can start assembly of fusion reactors in 2017. Even if their claims dont pan out there are others who believe their fusion reactors will be just as viable within a relatively short time frame.

They claim they'll have a prototype breakeven reactor in five years. Wide scale industrialization is still decades off.

I just think that you should be supportive of nuclear power now. Waste storage really isn't a very difficult issue.

Who says I don't support nuclear energy?

You did:

I'll support it when it's not producing nuclear waste

I just don't support nuclear energy that produces highly toxic and radioactive waste that takes 50k years to decay.

Okay, so you don't support nuclear energy.

Sounds like you want a magical energy sources with no waste, no hassle, easy implementation, and preferably it gives everyone free handjobs, too. Nuclear is an incredible alternative compared to coal.

I'll support it when it's not producing nuclear waste.

Number of deaths in the U.S. due to nuclear power: 0

Number of deaths in China alone due to coal: 400,000 per year

Number of premature deaths in the U.S. due to coal: 24,000 per year

Environmental hazards due to coal: acid rain, erosion, global warming

Environmental hazards due to storing nuclear waste: none

Radiation released into the environment by coal-burning plants: 400x as much as nuclear power plants

Cost of coal vs nuclear is roughly 1:1.

Coal produces more waste two orders of magnitude higher than nuclear.

Coal has killed more people, will kill more people, will destroy obscenely more of the environment, and will deplete far faster than nuclear.

Just do it. It's a brilliant and beautiful take on a largely unexplored niche of end-of-the-world sci-fi with plenty of scientifically grounded technology and themes. I wasn't surprised that I enjoyed Hans Zimmer's scoring, but I was surprised that his music was my favorite part of the film. He uses an organ as his primary instrument and builds such incredible crescendos that fit perfectly with the action taking place on-screen (though this technique is overused somewhat). Despite the three-hour runtime I thought the pacing was spot-on (which is typical for Nolan) and at no point did I feel like the plot was dragging. The acting is believable and moving, though I personally think McConaughy was pretty boring until he left Earth.

The biggest flaw in the movie is that it's so densely packed with science that the script feels the need to explain every single plot point and theory down to a grade-school level, and the cinematography often focuses too much on close-up shots of characters explaining what they see rather than just showing us. Even the iconic space imagery is limited to shots taken from the cameras fixed around their spacecraft. It keeps you in the perspective of the crew, but limits the scope of the scenery.


For the first 3/4 of the movie the science seems to be very thoroughly researched and beautifully imagined in CGI. It seems like most reviewers agree that the final act is the greatest failing of the movie, and it's largely because after exploring deep space and all the amazing phenomena the team discovers out there, it's reduced to human squabbles, 'love' as a physical, world-saving resource, and the typical quantum mechanics deus ex machina that so many hard-sci fi rely on these days. I hesitate to say there's any sort of twist at the end, but rather a mystery that is hastily unraveled in the most convenient and unbelievable way possible, ending on a bafflingly stupid paradox and wrap-up that takes away from the magnitude of every little moment of suspense felt previously. The film pulled no punches at making characters real and believable, and subsequently killing them off or subjecting them to emotional suffering, but then the ending just wraps everything up with a nice little "quantum mechanics instantly solved everything" bow on top.

I'll get high, not drunk.

Whatever you want.

If you put ketchup on pizza you're an objectively terrible person.

Gojira: social liberal; King of the Monsters; pro-nuclear power

Seems like the ability to follow the laws of the land is pretty crucial to being a citizen. I support a path to citizenship, but you can't just ignore broken laws.

Destiny's loading screens.

You wear a belt whenever your pants have belt loops or you're wrong.


And if the leather doesn't match your shoes everybody will laugh at you behind your back.

>"Confirmed fake"

I'm not talking a restoration from the ground up, I'm talking cars that are already daily drivers but could use new parts that the sellers aren't willing to do themselves for various reasons. Or just cars that have already been restored or maintained. Although I do like mechanical work.

It's getting rave reviews by a culture that thinks they "fucking love science" because they saw a cool gif on Facebook. Don't take it scientific face-value, just enjoy the ride and set aside the knowledge that using real science would make a movie utterly boring.

Abolish corporation tax.