Hopefully, the progress to change energy consumption comes before the climate is so destroyed that it becomes necessary for sheer survival. You know what else the 50s had? No concern for the environment. And McCarthyism, my favorite political trend.

And yet, if you compare Uraguay to some states, those numbers become a lot more reasonable.

So don’t even try. Quit now, because you’re too big, and besides there’s practically no wind and no empty areas where solar energy can be gathered, Oh yeah, except along the millions of highway miles in America. Also, not all wind turbines have to be colossal. You could put vertical turbines along highways and there…

Don’t most/all of those things make it harder to replace your infrastructure? That is, shouldn’t your locomotive be farther ahead in the process than your Leaf?

I’m all for transitioning to renewable energy sources, and what Uraguay has done is impressive. I know people will start making comments about how Uruguay is a country of only 3.4 million people; you can’t compare that to the United States’ 318 million. But a more useful statistic (which is unfortunately missing from…

1. In developed countries population isn’t an issue, only in developing nations. Some developed nations are actually in danger of becoming old heavy.

Nope, acceleration.

The first episode looked stunning. Hands down the best-looking scifi show I’ve seen, particularly the exterior shots of the massive ships and stations. I’m not completely sold on the characters just yet, though I can see Miller and Holden growing on me. Naomi, Alex, and Avasarala stood out above the rest, because they…

Worry the day she isn’t anymore.

I’ll agree that a little beeping ball is an “it”, but I don’t mind Siri and Cortana being referred to as “she” since they have female voices.

IT is a robot. IT doesn’t need a gender. Until IT contains ovaries or testicles, and can sexually reproduce, IT isn’t female or male. For fuck’s sake, people.

Yeah, my understanding is that the Thorium options are a shorter-term solution that have a number of advantages over conventional Uranium and Plutonium reactors, but that the potential for fusion reactors are much, much better in the long run. It’s kind of analogous to how hybrid cars became feasible in the market…

Almost certainly, but they are trying to build a fusion reactor that if it works will be far superior to a fission reactor.

Apathy. It needn’t have to have been killed. It could have just died out on its own. Or moved on.

There would be a frenzy on social media for about a month. The the world would go back to usual, except for a small minority who would make these aliens the focus of their lives.

Offworld Trading Company?

A sensible hypothesis given the conventional wisdom, I suppose. However, your predictions, and that wisdom, are built upon several assumptions which might turn out to be false. The most important of these, of course, is that an interstellar civilization would necessarily colonize the entire galaxy within a 100,000…

It’s possible that it’s the remnants, but given that fact that the second drop was larger than the first, it strikes me as more likely that it’s under construction. We’ll have to wait until 2017 for the next expected dip to find out what the trend is, if any.

I feel pretty guilty about not playing with my toys. And it’s totally based on Toy Story. Not something that should make me feel guilty, but it does.

The writing. The branching paths and hard-set consequences. The tweaks made to the gameplay systems like eliminating RNG-driven success chances for speech challenges, making character builds more important than 3.