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I go, I watch, I come back and the thread has moved four (probably five by the time I'm done typing this) pages. There were a lot of happy monkeys in that room. It is a good thing.

Huzzah!Now I'm just waiting for metal tentacles to explode from the ground after that laser gets fired~

After a good and rage filled fifteen-twenty minutes of no sound, low quality, and about fifty crashes of Safari, Frumple finally noticed NASA TV has an app for the shitpad, and now has sound and decent quality. Currently doing preshow thing, with active coverage starting up in... ten minutes?

Aye, there's that. Thing is, while I can say that I experience the same wavelength interaction, I can't say I see the same color -- I can't, accurately, say the sky is blue, as I see at least four other colors in that mess. I can say it's that thing that people call blue, but not much more than that. While the input's the same, the output is apparently considerably different. In this case, the definition we use for blue -- which, I'd say, involves more than just the wavelength, particularly re: singular nature -- isn't one that fits my experience, and my own description of it has been noted repeatedly to be rather radically different from the normal. I'm basically taking it on faith that what I'm seeing is what everyone else is talking about when they describe the color blue, because when they take me outside and point up the experiment's reproduction fails

Guess I'm saying there's a bit more convention to part of what's being measured (particularly re: interpretation, in this case) than might be being considered.

Semantic slip again, but... not all atheists, no. M'one (agnostic atheist, more accurately, or 'weak' atheist. Mostly, anyway.), and that's not what I refer to when I say faith. Faith is a larger phenomena than that embodied by religious faith. I wouldn't call it appropriate to hijack the the concept just to reinforce my atheist preferences. Disingenuous, is what I'd call it, I think. The areligious don't need to resort to that to defend their position, we've got better methods and arguments. E: Bit later, but to be a bit more evenhanded, it's not something just the areligious does, of course. Folks should see the twisted tangles chritian theology has made of the word good at points during its history, heh, just as an example.

Faith is simply belief that either has not been or can not be justified -- stuff that does not have (in some cases, yet) an empirical truth value, generally (there's wiggle room in there for non empirical stuff, I'd think.). The unjustifiable sort is definitely more prevalent in religious circles, but it's neither universal among them (perhaps universal among the theist ones, but that's not the whole of religion) or exclusive to them.

Chiming in vaguely for LEXX, even though all I really remember is the opening song and the dragonfly ship thing

Honestly, though, the only sci-fi series I've actually seen a majority of is star trek TNG, I think. Seen bits and pieces of the rest of the ST stuff, the original trilogy of SW (and I think one and two of the prequel stuff?), bits of the old galactica, bits of a couple of the SG series, a chunk (though badly fragmented) of Babylon 5 and farscape, few eps of Andromeda (I think. That's the one with Hercules, right?). I've still watched none of firefly because its name terrifies me (Anthony! *fistshake*), but I have read a couple of lengthy fanfics involving it. Did see the dune movie, but not the rest of it.

Just TV or movie's probably a little limiting for me, as I don't really watch either, but eh. Not like I can actually remember all the sci-fi I've read, heh.

Credit where credit is due, I wouldn't say that's entirely true. Some civilian stuff has come out of the military budget in the last century, definitely. What has enriched society from DoD spending certainly hadn't been enough to justify the sheer amount that gets sunk into it, though, even remotely. It's... what, equal to the combined spending of the next 20-something countries below us (in expenditure, mind)? Large enough to be farcical if it weren't fact.

As fact it's merely ridiculous and somewhat disgusting

War? War!? War is hell. We should not step unto that viciou-- ZA WARUDO *grk*

Mudada. Kill them while they're weak.

Early game pile on, if you can manage it, might be nice. Depends on if the celts city's in a good spot and you've got (or can get) the forces for it.