Isn't the time scale much shorter than that. My understanding was that the sun is in it's mid-life stage now, and only has another 5 billion years or so to go. But the Earth has even less than that I thought, because the sun will begin/continue to expand at a greater rate in the next billion years evaporating much of…

I don't think GitS ever covered it, but there's no reason why a cyborg couldn't. The developers of the cyborg would simply need to have a solid understanding of the reproductive process in order to replicate it with machinery. Though if they had the option they would probably improve on the system, because…

They do but it's assumed that it is all virtual, and that makes sense since cyborgs aren't bound by the physical world. It's heavily presumed that the Major is bisexual—though even the term doesn't properly apply to her as she doesn't have a sex, though she might have what we conventional define as a female gender—and…

If it saved a billion it wouldn't be worth it, because that's not how you make these decisions. We could prevent a lot of crime if we said we will from now on we will just trust police and not require them to obtain a warrant. Or instead argue, convincingly, that it would be for the greater interest of everyone that…

Just the other day there was a suit brought up against the FBI for unconstitutional spying on Muslim Americans. While the judge did dismiss the case against the entire agency (but allowed the case against individual agents to go on, because they believed it could divulge too much—which is a terribly excuse but like I…

My argument isn't that I trust the FBI more, but rather there are more safeguards set in place and greater transparency to many more of the FBI's actions than there is to the NSA PRISM and other programs. There is a lot that the FBI does that could use more transparency, but even the questionable things we know that…

There is nothing wrong with the FBI getting a court order to get judicial legitimacy to access private information. However, what is happening with PRISM is not exactly the same, and it is where the two are different that is the cause for alarm. Additionally, the fact that Americans in general did not know even the…

There is no reason larger than the issue of slavery in the South that prompted the Civil War. Look at it this way, had slavery not existed in the South, there would have been no Civil War. Sure, "the Southern states were fighting for states rights;" however, the statement is missing an important clause, which is "the…

Has there ever been a remake that completely turns a company's financial profile around? The people who only clamor about the prospect of a VII remake, make the case that the game would be greatest disc put into a console. However, the game wasn't perfect, and my sneaking suspicion is these same fans will be the first…

I would rather pay a $100 knowing that I could possibly make $40-$50 down the road. And people don't make video games anymore than they make cars. Do you think someone sits over the lazer as it gets the information on the disc? That's done by machines too. In fact people probably are more involved in the making of…

How are you taking money away from the developers, when whoever already purchased it the original time for the product gave the developers the share they were entitled to. Should cut Crate & Barrel or Ikea a check for every piece of furniture of theirs that I own that I sold at yard sale? What about old Penguin books…

Holy Christ Balls! Why is playing a video game all of a sudden a five step process. What ever happened to the good old days where you can just stick the disc into the console and play? Thank god am I getting older and my interest is waining when it comes to video games, because I don't have the patience for this.

Could you imagine a Cassowary Pokemon? Part Flying/Fighting. It would ridiculous.

But there are steel arrows. That's the thing that gets me. They seemingly have all of the technology to develop harpoons, or even portable arrows that would seemingly pierce the skin from a far.

I've only seen a few episodes, but I'm assuming the manga is a bit ahead in terms of explaining this. If the back of the neck is the weak point, why not aim a canon at the back of the neck? If a cut will do the trick, surely blowing the whole area off does the same thing too. Also, why don't they use arrows? Aside…

It was experimenting, and in some places it was received really well and others not to much. Square had a similar battle style in Last Remnant, a game that had a log of lag and technical problems (though not as bad as people make it out to be) and had one of the best battle systems this gen I think. You controlled…

That is very true. X-2 was a lot happier. It was a good epilogue to the story and world of X, and I think that is what they were going for. The story focused on recovery, healing, and moving on from the devastation of X.

What hurt XIII was the fact that you won't just change one character's job, but had to change the entire party. However, the system did fit in with the developers intention to make combat more focused on the unit as a whole rather than individual characters.

Well, because it is the job and battle system that allows you to actually role play in the game. So why people play it for the battle and job system seems pretty obvious.

Yeah, I don't get why blowing up the moon is thought to be an effective plan. If an alien race has such capabilities, they seemingly would have all of the technology they need that would make any engagement with Earth a waste of resources.