I enjoyed Big Hero 6 but one of the top defining “hard” sci fi movies of all time, in the same list as Metropolis?? All because of its supposed sophistication in portraying AI? “AI is good for once!” Uhhh it’s totally a case of green light means good robot and red light means evil robot. Cute movie but this list is hot garbage.
What would you say the show is about? And not just the starting premise. Having seen the whole thing, what’s at the center?
I found it to be a huge morass of sound and fury orbiting an empty center.
This is the most parroted comment on this topic. Please actually say something original.
I read the books and ultimately didn’t like them very much. I recognize their value but they just weren’t for me. I don’t remember a lot about them, enough, say, to get upset about how they changed this or that character.
And I found that show to be an utter mess. Just a mess. It’s a mess absolutely chock full of stuff. It’s a very beautiful mess. It’s a mess with amazing production values. But it’s still a hot mess. Forget adapting the books… what in the world is it about at all?? Ultimately it seemed to just get stuck on its emperor character and invented various struggles to take him down. Totally empty in the end.
Narrator: “It didn’t.”
Men trend more conservative than women overall (6 in 10 committed conservatives are men - pew) so more of them probably fell for the disinformation and denialism during the pandemic. Yes, we know that Republicans died more from COVID, to the tune of 15% more excess deaths.
I would understand if she had said no to a second needle jab that day :)
She is also participating in the monitored rollout of a new COVID vaccine variant so she’s made somewhat of a habit out of this. I’m proud of her too!
Making a contribution to science is a huge achievement and brings a lot of meaning to the end of his life.
Me and my wife experienced something like this in a small way. With our first child, we had an amniocentesis done. This is the rather horrific procedure where they pierce the pregnant woman’s belly with a hypodermic needle to get a sample of the fluid within the amniotic sac. This fluid contains dead cells shed by the fetus and you can do a genetic analysis of those to see if it has genetic diseases. It’s very standard but still when you see that needle get stabbed into a pregnant woman it’s pretty gnarly and there is a small risk to damaging the sac or the fetus itself.
ANYWAY when we did this, there was a nurse nearby who said “would you like to participate in a study we’re doing to try to make all the same test results available with just a simple blood test?” In addition to being stabbed with the big needle my wife also agreed to do a blood draw. They were able to use her amniocentesis results and the blood to improve on emerging techniques to find the pertinent genetic material within the mother’s bloodstream, meaning NO BIG STABBY NEEDLE.
Of course this was just in research so no benefit to my wife. But she felt proud to do it. And the punchline to this story is that my wife has a little sister. And years later when she got pregnant the science had matured and she was able to just do the blood test - no stabby needle. So we got to see the whole cycle complete and actually benefit someone we love. That was pretty great.
It appears to be in the early stages of research, tackling the square one problems of how to assemble macrostructures from living cells without damaging them, while keeping them alive, while keeping the whole thing sterile. I would say this is a concept. It has zero demonstrated practical success and is still a decade minimum away from being able to attempt to get it.
Still I think it’s an inevitable technology that we should invest in. Once we can control the development of cells through genetic manipulation, and assemble them into macrostructures, we’ll be able to do quite a lot, and there seem to be advancements on the former frontier all the time. We just don’t know how to get all those stem cells we convinced to become liver tissue together into a liver.
Yes and this effect is very small compared to the effect of heat, but when accounted for, it can make a difference at scale, in weather and climate simulation models, for example.
Jesus fucking christ. We can talk about women for five minutes without it being a slight to men.
Oh that’s interesting to know, thanks.
It’s very weird to me that they wrote him out of the show, filmed an end to that character, and then fired him. Often when an actor abruptly exits a show they just vanish and you find out how they died offstage somehow. This guy had to participate in his own ejection from the show. His character kind of dies a hero, too, which makes it even weirder. I guess they were trying to jettison the actor without harming the character.
Right those are all good points. But I mean the study only measured muscle gain. And some of what they tried was pretty bizarre outer-edge strength training stuff like twitching your arm for 3 seconds. They measured whether this affects muscle gain but not anything else. I hear you’re saying that muscle gain leads to all the other things but it would have been nice to see those actually measured and not just assume you’ll get a 15% reduction in all-cause mortality from twitching your arm for 3 seconds.
Too bad they focus entirely on strength training. I exercise to manage my weight, improve my mood, and improve long term health benefits.
Isn’t “falling up” just another way of saying that it’s repelled by matter?
That’s fucking awesome.
The universe very nearly did cancel itself out entirely. That’s why it is as empty as it is. The matter you see is the slight surplus there wasn’t enough antimatter to annihilate. Why this surplus? It’s one of the great remaining problems.
I think there’s an extreme form of the anthropogenic principle we can apply here. Universes may pop into existence constantly and destabilize into nothing because their physical laws aren’t fine tuned for stability, or because they don’t have an uneven amount of anti/matter. Perhaps universes are part of some extra-cosmic superstructure that’s just frothing like mad. Some bubbles last a little longer than others before they pop. We could be one of those. Perhaps the multiverse is a little bit of suds in some leviathan child’s bathtub.
Antimatter can interact with matter and create an explosion of energy that annihilates both.
If you take some antimatter out of its containment cabinet and do that with it 5 minutes from now, you’ve done that in its “past” which means it can’t be there for you to procure in the first place.
Or did you, in reverse time, cause a bunch of energy to converge and become matter and anti-matter, and then walk over and put the antimatter away in the cabinet?
It’s reverse entropic as fuck but I guess that’s anti-time for you. Maybe this is how the Big Bang was caused. Anti-entropic flow of anti-matter into a highly ordered state in one point. Fuck.
I liked its portrayal of “how would I outsmart myself, an identical me that’s also trying to outsmart me back?”
Watching 7 people all try to do that together makes for a lot of interesting drama, and shakes out much that they’d hoped to hide about themselves. In fact that’s exactly how some of the characters try to outsmart themselves: by going for that jugular vein of deep dark secrets no one knows. Fucking brutal.
And all that would be impossible to portray without sci-fi. This movie’s vehicle for the sci-fi elements is dumb as rocks: a comet passes overhead and fractures quantum spacetime. Wut? It’s not an important point but damn, at least make it sound like you tried.