for the same reason that Wall Street firms take advantage of trading microseconds faster than anyone else, there are surely advantages to having mobile humans in space. it's only a matter of not too many years time before military personnel will be deployed there. having military advantages leads to winning battles.

yeah, "d'oh"

a military and surveillance rationale may well be behind their priorities.

howdy, doctor lizardo. i knew that, but was confused by the absence of a bracketed remark that explained just which Jersey was being referred to.

#corrections "De Jersey said the find was exceptional..." De Jersey?

Here's a link to the Sci-Am article summary (pay wall to see the whole thing); [www.scientificamerican.com]. It says this:

who knows, maybe they will uncover her questionable identity as a season cliffhanger. but that would rank as a too-obvious surprise. so unlikely.

nor do the lame plot devices do not end there. for instance, when the Libert8 gang is found to be "ex" military and thus the military would not be involved nor provide information to the criminal justice system? hogwash.

sadly, i am not enjoying this series as much. mostly, i'm put off by its "get out of jail free" card, that saves Kiera every time she's stumped: by The Kid Who Knows All. for my taste, too much like the way the TARDIS and K-9 were used too often to save The Doctor.

i especially liked the ambiguity of the ending...

"The Quiet Earth," a 1985 movie, posited something similar.

it'll never work, but i'm all for someone trying and getting the world excited about space travel again in our lifetime.

about a year or so ago (I think), Scientific American published an article on "The End of Cosmology" that explained how "an accelerating universe wipes out traces of its own origins." Basically, expansion of the universe means it will take too long for light to reach us from increasingly distant stars, and we will…

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Showcase.ca has also created Endgame, XIII: The Series, King, and Shattered. All pretty damn excellent, though not sci-fi.

Yes, international distribution is an important part of all media properties (TV, film, music, games, books, etc). In 1998 John Wiley & Sons published a book I co-wrote on how the world's first unregulated global network was going to screw with the entertainment biz models.

Thanks, Bob — I enjoyed Äkta Människor. Wonder whether there'll be a second season.

Maybe. My first reaction was, sure, market size is always determinant. But then i remembered that "The Bridge" was broadcast by Danish TV with the expectation of around 100,000 viewers, and The Almighty Johnsons was renewed based on its performance of around 250,000 viewers.

i cant just be a few countries that produce this kind of stuff. it's got to be pretty universal. but maybe not much in English or with subtitles. i mean, there are plenty of Russian sci-fi writers. Israeli? Chinese? Japanese? South African?

here's the Wikipedia link for the show: [en.wikipedia.org]. i consider it a guilty pleasure. it's not great drama, but fun and original.