It depends. If it means we get well-written and acted genre material with sprawling cast and substantial budget that not specifically about dragons and castles, me all for it. Smart move would be to apply GoT model to other, similar genre.

“It’ll inspire a lot of people.”

Christ I hope not. The last thing we need is a legion of sub-par ripoffs of a sub-par dark-and-edgy LOTR anti-fanfiction.

Someone get Bezos some Ian M. Banks stat! I want my Culture anthology series!

I’m curious if there IS any method of preservation that would allow us to genetically “grow” an animal nowadays that existed millions of years ago. I know we found mammoth flesh frozen at one point, and people went so far as to cook and eat the thing (seemed like a stupid waste, to me, when scientists probably…

I’m trained as an evolutionary ecologist and my wife is a professor of molecular evolutionary genetics, yet people were CERTAIN we didn’t understand the difficulties...

In the book, the genetic sequencing is managed by 2 Cray X-MP supercomputers, an astonishing amount of computing power for 1990 (and costing over 10 million dollars each), but it turns out woefully inadequate for the task they were supposedly able to perform. Note that the X-MP was not as powerful as a Playstation 4.

That’s because the Nazis are too unruly and bohemian. They’re just not conservative enough for the good people of rural Texas.

As a rural Pennsylvanian, I think you’re on to something.

I wouldn’t want to deny any Nazis everything they have coming.

Just defending their heritage. With vehicular homicide.

Tradition is often the worst reason to continue doing something

Fun Facts:

Even those who might have stood a chance of being decent in a normal administration will find themselves permanently soiled by Trump. And I’m not just talking about when his Large Adult Diapers leak.

While Anderson Cooper and his guests wrung their hands over this on CNN last night, the ticker at the bottom the screen made a one sentence mention of the fact that the Feds are defunding a project that studies the health impact of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. Maybe that should have been the lead story.

Man, will you people ever let that go? He wasn’t scolding all chairs. Just the one he thought was Obama. #notallchairs