Samothrake

The Current War looks interesting, but I've already seen this story on Dark Matters. And they did it in 20 minutes or less, not two hours.

Well, the biggest thing that keeps octopi from advancing is that they have no grouping. And since they live alone, they have noone bringing them food.

See, after mating the mama octopus goes and makes a den and lays a bunch of eggs. Then the just sits there and protects the eggs. Yeah, it's a great show of maternal instinct. But by the time the eggs hatch, mama octopus has basically starved herself to death. At this point she dies. So, because nobody brought mama octopus food during this time, and since octopi don't have a group structure like orca, dolphins and such other sea animals, they cannot pass on what they learned to their offspring. Which means that each generation has to learn anew what is good and bad in the area around them.

So, until those most interesting animals can group together and start to teach their young, we have nothing to fear from an octopi invasion.

Is the chicken supposed to be Sarah Jane?

I had not realized she was 85. So while I am saddened, she seems to have lived a long and full life.

I had wondered why her son was writing Pern novels, and now, perhaps, I know.

They way Taylor described the future wanting to use all of the resources of Tera Nova, I rather like how the conflict is slowly shaping up.

My wonderfully scientific mind sees two possibilities.

First, the future scientists are correct, and Tera Nova is in a alternate timeline/dimension. Shipping all sorts of equipment to strip mine the ‘past’ leaves the future with much more resources than they previously had.

Second, the future scientists are wrong, and Tera Nova is really their past. They just couldn’t find the probe because it was totally destroyed due to any of a dozen or more different reasons. But then we run into paradoxes. If tons of equipment is shipped back in time, metals, even plants and animals could be shipped back to the future. However, at this time in the past, there’s no fossil fuels to dig up and ship back to the future. Now since the metals are being shipped forward, we start getting into paradox territory. Depending on how much ‘mantle to crust to mantle churn’ has happened, a limited amount of metal in the crust in the past is still in the crust in the future. By taking the metals, minerals and what not out of the past, they are not there for nearer future people to pull out and use. Now depending on how they deal with this potential paradox in the ‘scientists being wrong’ scenario, either those resources were never there for the nearer future to use to begin with, or they were there before people being sent to 2149, in which case the future’s past changes and the resource crisis gets pushed to an earlier time. I’m not worried about transporting trees, plants, vegetables and the like forward, because only limited amounts of those things in the right conditions turned into coal, oil, shale and the like. But taking all the minerals and ores from the past to the future could lead to some really interesting possibilities, including the fact that the future's resource crisis was brought on by the fact that they sent people back in time in the first place.

I am also of the persuasion that thinks Taylor’s and Mira’s discordant opposition may not be quite so bitter a rivalry. Things both sides say and do, make it seem like they’re working for the same goal with different means, even that Mira might be working for Taylor. Then there are things they the both say and do that really make it look like a bitter fight to the end. But I do have to wonder why Taylor hasn’t just sent in a bunch of soldiers and wiped out the Sixers. If he sees them as a truly such a big threat to Tera Nova, and knowing about them having communications to the future, he really has no reason not to.

That brings up my next question: Just how long have they been at the farm?

I think we've been shown four, perhaps five days at the farm, but I'm not sure. Just last episode, Carl was still laid up in bed and Lori was fussing over him before going to the 'comunity' meal. Then Glen found the barn's inhabitants at the end of the show. This episode Carl's up and about like nothing has happened (though he still has bandages), and Maggie is begging Glen not to tell anybody. Was there a few days between episodes? Or was the almost fatal wound Carl had not that hard to heal with 'proper treatement' (which they really didn't have)?

The show has kinda played fast and lose with a timeline. We know that at least 60 days passed since the start of the plague. What with how much fuel the CDC center had and had used. We don't know how long the group was on the road before they hit traffic jam. Now there's been up to a week since Sofia disappeared/Carl was shot.

Also something that has been bother me for a while. With all those trips into town, why has nobody gone into the hardware/sports store and gotten Daryl more quarrels for his crossbow? You'd think that would be a standard request of his by now. Yeah he wasted one on a hanging zombie, but they weren't smart enough at the time to cut the corpse down and get that quarrel back. Yes, it's nice that they are remembering to have him keep retrieving that quarrel, but sooner or later he's gonna have to get more because those things - even the aluminum ones - don't last forever.

One thing I'm wondering her is when episode became a "mid-season finale"?
The last I heard, season 2 was only supposed to be 7 episodes. And the show had already gotten signed up for a third season.

For females the "Tops with Skin" and "Bottoms with Skin" Metal costume parts have desperately, for over seven years needed to have gloves and boots to go with them.
I've tried everything, and nothing really fits those two costume pieces that looks well enough to be a set. I wouldn't mind some sort of head wear to go along with it as well, but they really, really need boots and gloves to finish the set.

Does anybody know when the noncombat and buff Veterans Rewards and Vanguard Pack pets became toggles, where we can only have one out at a time?

I did a short search of the forums and nothing came up, that I could find.

My playtime for the past month has been sporadic, but I would swear that just a couple weeks ago I could have all three of them out at once.

If somebody could point me to relevant patchnotes, I would appreciate it.

I reall, really dislike this change.

But on a more series note, because they didn't really explain this well in the article. Is Dwayne replacing Brendan as the dad in this movie, or is he just an unrelated adult on the expedition?

"What IS that?"

"The Pec Pop of Love"


can't. stop. laughing...

Wow, and he just quit a few months ago.

At least digitally.
Basically Marvel on Friday announced that they will be doing day-and-date publishing of their comics. However article makes it unclear on just when this will be happening, possibly as late as April to get ‘nearly all’ of Marvel’s comics on the same-day digital schedule.

The closest thing I have to these things nowadays is almost all of red Bionicle figures (both good and bad guys). And a couple of the big ones. And the first three Plo Koon Star Wars Figures. And perhaps a Gundam Wing small figure. And there might be an R2D2 somewhere...


Would D&D figures count?

I also found this one at the end of the Proclaimers one.

I rather enjoyed it as well.