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I'd say another critical element is "Does it have a good sense of humor?" While not always critical, I think its an important element of good writing that often times gets lost in drama and not done entirely well in sci-fi. You could tell right away with Fringe and Firefly that the shows would have a nice sense of

I would like this if it was an animated movie in the style of the creepy German propaganda movie from the first Rocketeer.

While I'll agree in general, I do think that you can make interesting Sci-Fi by using all but a few of those tropes. Have your FTL, but keep the radiation sickness or the lack of easy FTL communications. This whole Star Trek/Wars trope package is fine, but I think it makes things too easy, and its the complications

Particularly since the battles in BSG were mostly done with artillery and missiles, and flack. It was all relatively low speed compared to the sort of lightspeed weapons you see in other Sci-Fi. I really loved it, especially when the Galatical would jump away and avoid the broadsides the Cylons just fired but still

The solution is obvious, more Large Marge ghost truckers.

Yeah, its really hard to make a 'resist the foreign enemy' movie when the foreign enemy basically already won before the movie was made.

I suppose that's fair enough. And apparently abortions were significantly easier and more available in the 1970s than they are today, what with state legislatures continually trying to close down abortion providers. And the cost for the pill was pretty high until coverage was extended to it last week. But I could

After watching Mad Men, you have to wonder how much not drinking and smoking while pregnant helped things too.

I found it really strange, on reading Freakonomics, that Levitt spent so much time on abortion, and yet didn't mention another equally (and perhaps more) significant influence on our population, the Pill. Hormonal birth control has been used by a huge percentage of American women, and you have to imagine that has

In its way, Time Travel is even worse than genocide. Its one thing to kill people... at least they got to have some existence, while Time Travel changes could potentially eradicate their existences entirely, even if they had already lived their whole lives. How horrible.

Neat, I remember buying those little model starships back at the height Star Trek TNG's popularity... they even had a Borg cube which I still have sitting around, though it is sadly not to scale.

Honestly, I think looking at how society would develop when you remove scarcity would be far more interesting than any random planet of single trait aliens you could visit. The crew of the Enterprise (any Enterprise) is pretty much the best and brightest... they can do what they like, and they're motivated to learn

Yeah, I think they 'moved on' in that they consumed themselves in a big conflict when they exhausted their resources and were mostly dead. Though slavers from South America came later, the Easter Island society largely collapsed between the 50 years between first contact and second contact.

More or less... what I've read is that it was likely a mountain retreat (either religious or pleasure) for Inca royalty. No more royalty, no more Macchu Picchu. Check out An Idiot Abroad sometime... that place is really, really hard to get to... I doubt anyone would be able to live in a place that is quite that

It'll be a nice thing to do after they're all dead or rendered completely irrelevant. The French could do it with their own monarchy.... I mostly just love the idea giving all these old former leaders the real King Tut treatment with CT scans, maybe genome sequencing, and just a general look to see what forensics can

Thanks to genetic sequencing, these don't have to be historical unknowns. The burial places of all these kings and queens are totally known, and its quite possible to do DNA finger printing on them and see if any of them were illegitimate.

What I hate in movies is when they have the ability to write dialogue that uses scientific words correctly, and they chose to just write nonsense. Splice is a prime example of this.... they were creating some sort of weird hybrid creature, and their explanation of it didn't include many real words at all. And it

I've heard that Alaska, because it has such a tremendously high ratio of men to women, has a little bit more instances of women dating multiple men at the same time. All friend of a friend said so stuff, of course, but I'm curious if that is real.

In short, no. I think that in polygynous societies, you end up with situations where the wealthiest men hold all the power, and use it to have extra wives, and that same power makes it hard for those women to escape, because all the men are interested in maintaining that system. Also, you can have polygyny in

So the literal embodiment of Australia is a British billionaire that lives in her many castles in England and visits once every decade or so? Seriously, I'm sure you can find someone to embody Australia that actually lives there and is part of that culture.