"Quote me doing this, please. I don't even see West Coast doing it, tbh."

"I haven't mentioned political power...."

History *can* be a useful tool in examining things that happen today, but we also live in a rather unique part of history, in a unique part of the world that doesn't directly correlate well. South Africa's situation, for example, isn't applicable because we aren't keeping immigrants (whether that be Chinese, South…

What do you mean by 'minority', anyway? A political minority? Do the Chinese (Or any other group, really) vote as one monolithic block or something? A cultural minority? In an age where children are drifting from their parents' cultural values towards a globalized homogenization en-masse? What? You and West Coast are…

Absolutely. I live in small-town semi-rural British Columbia, in the former riding of Stockwell Day, and it's really quite endemic. It does manifest in strange ways, though; for example, I recently discovered, to my great dismay, that one of my oldest friends is quite virulently racist towards what he calls 'Asians';…

Pretty much, yeah.

You've nailed what I found unpleasant about it. It just looks... I don't know, clunky? Scattered, maybe? Some parts of it were on par with Deus Ex, but others, like the model textures, as you said, almost break immersion they're so out-of-sync with the rest of it.

DIRECT HIT.

You mean having been to the UK once and listened to the GOP party line on Europe doesn't make you an expert on European policy?!?

The force projection required to get to the US alone is ludicrous. How one Earth would an armada of North Korean planes, ships and an entire supply network get out of the most heavily-patrolled sea in the world (The Sea of Japan), sail across the Pacific and breach American waters without anyone, be it commercial…

Err, no, not really. There are really very few transmissible diseases that don't affect humans as an entire species. Malaria's the only one that I can think of offhand, and even then it's not something that can be spread with any degree of ease.

Oooh! Where have I heard that tune before... Ahah! It's from Schubert's "Die Forelle" ('The Trout')! It was recently in the latest Sherlock Holmes movie, where it was used to very ominous effect.

"Is not Peters just proposing shifting some of these things around about? I can't quite see what is so exasperating about some single person suggesting a different arrangement of something that we are unlikely to be sure about for some time yet. "

"The specific details of phylogenetic hypotheses – that is, the specific positions of species relative to one another – will, in many cases, always fluctuate between studies. But the general pattern of the tetrapod cladogram as a whole is universally agreed on: mammals are the sister-group to the…

"We know it wasn't Earth because the film gives us no reason to think it is Earth and there is plenty of reason to think it isn't. "

"That wasn't Earth."

"Personally, I think this is splitting hairs a bit. At what point does a "tweak" become "ignoring"?"

I think there's an important distinction between tweaking how science says things should act for the purposes of telling a story and ignoring how science says things should act altogether, or because of the laziness of the writer, though. And Prometheus, IMO, definitely fell into the lazy writing bin and splattered…

"Ah the whole secret agenda thing. "

"I'd have thought that their party and government unequivocally supported marriage equality would be enough to prove they're not homophobic. "