Why are you building Alien Alloys? If you catch the base-building fleet on the ground, you'll have more of the stuff than you can store. If you do that a couple of times, you'll be thinking about selling the stuff. You'll also have plenty of Elerium-115, unless you blow the battleship engine rooms the wrong way.

Egads, my work is slow enough already because I have to store my work halfway across the state. I don't need to spend three weeks fighting to get my computer back to working so it can be even slower accessing files halfway across the country.

I seem to recall that NASA is required to make technological developments available to industry already, unless they're restricted for national security reasons.

I had great success by purchasing a copy of Fluxx for said break room. We play at lunch. Sometimes lunch runs long, but the boss hasn't complained because the improvement in morale and team building has been so significant.

What, they've got Largo's Ph34rBot on display?

The original producers of V actually brought in some real science fiction writers to try to save the show. I think it was Niven and Pournelle. I story I read was that the Visitors had left the Earth (or a very similar planet) a long, long time ago and had come home and found the humans infesting the place. They wanted to be here because it was home to them -- the air smelled right, the sun was the right color, the day was the proper length.

Of course, that wasn't enough to save the show, I don't think it was even used.

The politician attends meetings and makes decisions; the junior staffer types up the meeting notes and the proposed plans. Junior staff is doing the computer work, and has the misconfigured P2P software.

I beg to differ on the current. If you look at the buildup of the water on the door and window supports, it looks like there's at least half a foot of pileup due to water velocity. There are some pulsating waves so you know it's not just head difference between inside and outside. That water appears to be moving a couple of feet per second, especially after the breakthroughs. It's not a seeping flood, they're getting real velocity.

I don't think I've ever heard of flood water velocity as a measure of distance from channel before, though.

How about if we just all lived on the Prime Meridian?

Correction: Lexis-Nexis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexis-Nexus

I believe that Lexus-Nexus can handle that for you. You'll have to contact them for their price structure.

I stand somewhat corrected. I'm going to claim that Lost in Space and My Favorite Martian were broadcast during a period when television shows couldn't acknowledge sex. Keep in mind, Laura and Rob Petrie slept in separate beds and they were both humans married to each other. Battlestar Galactica sure had alien prostitutes in the "Guns of Navarone" episode, I think it was called The Gun on Ice Planet Nine or something like that. I don't recall Earth II, and IMDB only finds a movie.

Okay, how about I modify my statement to be, "Every live-action American television show broadcast in color eventually has includes sex with aliens, if aliens are present." That gets rid of the Firefly exception for me as well.

Every American science fiction television show eventually includes sex with aliens (except Firefly, maybe that's part of what made it good). There's always an alien female sex symbol or a half breed (evidence of inter-species sex).

There was an amazingly playable miniatures game called Full Thrust that came out 15 years ago. Games take about 30 minutes; it takes about 10 minutes to pick up the basics. Large fleet battles take a little longer, but I played convention games with 30 ships per side that were done in under 4 hours with a couple of newbies on each side. It's not SFB, but it's fun spaceship combat. Try to track down a copy and play it. If you liked SFB, you'll like Full Thrust. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_thrust

That's general of volunteers, not regular army. Not only that, half the Union officers wandered over and fought for the enemy. How many Federation officers were working for the Romulans?