Agree that it’s become less consistently brilliant of late. I was saying this since Season 5, and then it transpired that Pen Ward had quietly stepped down as show runner at that point, which to me vindicated my feelings... I’m pretty sure the two things are closely related. I used to stay up to catch the episodes…

Korrasami take two.

> throws a paddy

No you’re not, when KirkyV tried to explain the situation you just ignored them and continued to spit your cheese puffs everywhere.

You’re a nationalist and a racist.

Ya know region just means “place”, right?

As an American you haven’t read up on the basic details of the situation.

Scotland voted against independence too.

You think it’s all right for a kid to waste food for any of the above reasons?

A minor redesign of a HL2 character hardly counts as “fake HL3 concept art”.

Well we’ve gone from zero to a deep understanding of physics, moon landings and the internet within a few hundred years.

If I’m not seeing the forest it’s because you’ve failed to demonstrate that there is one. I haven’t heard any good reason that humans will be gone within a few hundred years.

Nah. Humans have been around for two million years just fine. Your example wasn’t a bit off, it was a complete misconception. And nobody is predicting that global warming will “destabilise the food chain and ruin global agriculture”. That’s not a scientific idea, that’s alarmism.

Depends what you mean by exploration. If you’re happy to leave your home planet behind forever, there is no cosmic speed limit.

Overly cynical. You seem to vastly overstate the frequency of asteroids. All of human scientific progress has occurred within a few hundred years. The last deadly asteroid hit 65 million years ago.

I don’t think he was dumb for not being able to solve it himself, just for ridiculing other people’s efforts. Even the pendulum clock was a relatively new invention then, and improvements to timekeeping technology were constantly being made. It therefore takes an impressive lack of perspective to write the whole idea…

The scientific age was well under way by that point. His condescension for a technological challenge was regressive and dumb. Don’t see how Google’s relevant.

Was it that intractable in principle? It was known you could solve it if you invent a robust clock, which hardly seems like an impossible and stupid undertaking. You can also do a fairly decent job just by observing the moon, which Amerigo Vespucci did a rough job of as early as 1500... again it was just a problem of…

So Hogarth was pretty dumb basically?

I don’t follow, please explain?