That’s pretty much what I was getting at.

Yeah... I thought he was opposed to a reboot as well. Either I’m misremembering, or someone managed to change his mind. 

Cool. I’m intrigued. But since we’re on the topic of reboots, can we get an Exo-Squad reboot while we’re at it? That show needs more love than it gets.

So, whaddaya think? Will we manage to develop the right technology to suit our biology, or will we adapt our biology to suit the technology?

Seconded. The inability to find replies to comments is maddening. It seems like once two Greys or so reply to a comment, then all subsequent Grey replies are just lost. Even ungreyed comments can be hard to track down in the thread sometimes. It hampers the dialogue and adds frustration. Sometimes there’s an option…

Sammarinese individuals will no longer need to go abroad to Italy

So... The zombies were horrible. If you removed them from the film, I don’t think the movie would suffer. But the heist element was also horrible and illogical and got in the way of whatever it was the film was trying to do. 

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis is an interesting debate. People far more versed than I am have well argued positions on either side of that one. I guess my position falls on the “why not both?” side of it. I find the collapse of the Laurentide Ice sheet coming out of the Bølling–Allerød to be a strong candidate…

Yeah... we tend to trivialize the idea of banging rocks together. But that shit’s hard work! Chopping down a tree with a stone axe takes time and effort that can’t be spent on other activities. And figuring out how to do all of that as efficiently as possible with the resources available certainly constitutes…

The film takes place in a universe where zombies exist, but the film itself is not about zombies.

Interesting. Then what’s the point of the zombies? Or is that the point... that zombies have become so ubiquitous in our own media that the genre has become background noise?

Part of me thinks it’s for Zack Snyder.

Personally, I thought Army of the Dead was gawdawful, so I might be biased, but were there many people watching that film saying, “okay okay... sure. Zombie apocalypse. Been there done that. I want to see more of the heist!”

I assume that Snyder liked the idea of the heist as a…

I’m going to push back on this last point a little bit. I do agree that, as with any discipline, there will be individuals reluctant to change and reluctant to embrace new ideas. Certainly.

But archaeology as a discipline has evolved and it continues to do so. This article itself is evidence of that. There are few in…

Many things are possible, and there is likely much that transpired during the 300,000 years of Homo sapien existence that we may never know. And I certainly agree that various technologies were likely developed independently and perhaps sometimes forgotten. But I remain on the skeptical side of agnostic about the idea…

Interesting. I’m very curious what success programs like that will have. I live in a community that has banned any attempt to ban single use plastic bags. So I don’t expect to see services like that any time soon down here. But you never know.

“The new study suggests that the common assumption that humans migrate and occupy places only during warm and wet times needs revision,”

Exactly. It’s not an earth-shattering concept. It’s just one that doesn’t jibe easily with our current consumer/maximum profits for minimal effort culture.

What about free range? 

Agreed. The timelines for human arrival in North America were always super fuzzy and it’s considered a given that much of the evidence has long since been submerged.

There was that article that came out in Nature a few years back that suggested humans were hanging around California as early as 130,000 years ago. That…

I’m no fan of soda, but if we are going to keep that up then I would like to see the option for people to buy and reuse containers they can refill themselves... or maybe the store would handle that. That might be smoother. Basically turn Kroger or Stop & Shop into mini bottling operations. They buy empty containers…

Unfortunately there are only three GOP held senate seats that are in competitive races next year. Pennsylvania strikes me as the easiest target given state wide trends there in 2020. North Carolina didn’t flip in 2020, and while some may blame the Democratic candidate’s sexting scandal... I’m skeptical that that was a…