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Comment BSG and LOST were both shows of FAITH (Score 1) 602

under the trappings of SCIENCE and science's attempts to understand faith.

At least, that's what they became after the writers for both series decided to head in those directions as both teams never had clear plans of what the show was going to tell the audience. And don't drag out that old "they knew what the final image of LOST was going to be" because even though they knew it would be SPOILERS Jack closing his eyes where he woke up in the pilot END SPOILERS. they had no idea how they were going to get there since the beginning, and that's a complete cop-out.

Caprica is also apparently a show of faith under the trappings of science, but much more overtly so, and as the OP writes, it is quite ponderous and I stopped watching it 2 episodes ago after it bored me to tears. Very likely the prequel concept was announced and then thrown to a bunch of writers without an actual plot and they had to scramble to write something that ended up being much too direction-less.

Comment It's called Iron Seeding, people. (Score 1, Interesting) 150

There is nothing new about Iron Seeding, except the people who decry it as something that will destroy our oceans and strip it of oxygen.

This is simply Iron Seeding from a biological standpoint.

In fact, Iron Seeding is something we probably should be doing to help sequester carbon.

Recent url of interest here.

Comment Free to Hook, Pay to Progress. (Score 1) 106

The game is free to play, but you can actually "put coins into the machine" to upgrade yourself above your competitors (by buying "diamonds" and spending them on yourself for combat and tactical enhancements).

Essentially, the more money you put into the game, the better you'll probably do at it; sort of defeats the purpose for anyone who just wants to play without excess enhancements. This essentially puts the game into the realm of Zynga-type, Facebook-esque games where you can upgrade yourself through cash. $ = advantage in this Ultima. Not a game for me.

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