I suppose for a Japan video this is redundant, but ... that was f*cking weird, man.

My first year in Thailand, I was in (the infamous) Pattaya for a short trip. Just as I was getting used to seeing 70+ year old Western men with 2-3 young attractive Thai girls on their arms, I saw an ~85ish year old Western woman with a walker, oxygen tank and lines running to her nose flanked by a total of 4 female "escorts". At the time, I thought ... wow, that is messed up.

But cuddle cafes where you can pay lots of money for the privilege of staring deeply into a stranger's eyes? Now that is messed up.

Congratulations pumkin! What a first year!
You sure took the sift by storm!

Yes, it is a fly. It only has one pair of wings, rather than two pairs that are usually found on other insects. The things I remember from first year biology.

closer to his character in the first year as the AVGN then he's been in a long time.

that game sucks.

The first half is very good. He kinda loses his thesis though. Upvote for discussion.

Edit: NDT says something in line with the first half of this video:

"We spend the first year teaching children to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down."

http://videosift.com/video/Neil-deGrasse-Tyson-Want-Scientifically-Literate-Children

Btw, @Fletch

Holy fuck...just holy fuck. Good reasoning Fletch, on all parts. Mindless drones on both sides always piss me off and I am glad to see you have an open mind. I remember my first year on the Sift when I came with a partially positive outlook on cops, yet pointed out when they were fucktards--I was this commie cum dumpster that everyone loved to hate... But my views are mostly like yours (Just a little less jaded.)

And we wonder why cops get jaded...

I was in my first year of full-time job!

Let's do every year starting at 1976!

that was a really cool story. my father had a had a 1968(first year of the bay window) type 2 or as we called it "the bus". i can still recall climbing around in a camper version when we were in the showroom before purchasing it. it haled all 9 of us for years until it could not handle the weight of all of us getting older and bigger. a few years ago i found it in a flickr contacts collection of Baltimore pics. it put a big smile on my face to see that it was still alive. i miss the bus.

If MIT is really that interested he won't have any loans. He shouldn't have any loans. These are the kinds of minds we need to give all the resources to. Let him see how far his potential can take him. Maybe he's the guy who makes clean energy and saves the planet. Who knows.>> ^vaire2ube:

show him the joy of work study and student loans, i bet he could have his own company by end of first year here

show him the joy of work study and student loans, i bet he could have his own company by end of first year here

>> ^HadouKen24:

>> ^quantumushroom:
Do you mean to say if liberals watched Ryan put on a dirty apron and wash a greasy pan while wearing business attire, THAT would have changed their minds?
Filth Clinton gets $100,000 a speech. Shall we research how much this compassionate, caring liberal gave to charity last year?
>> ^DarkenRahl:
QM, right on schedule with an inane non sequitur.


The Clintons haven't been releasing their tax returns since Hillary took over the Secretary of State position--it's not expected of cabinet members. Bill and Hillary usually file jointly.
In the time that Hillary was in the Senate, they typically donated about 10% of their income to charity. Which is substantially more than the average.
Likewise, Obama donated 25% of his income his first year in office, including most of the proceeds from his Nobel Peace Prize.


The Nobel Peace prize which I actually agree he totally deserves since people who are war criminals seem to get it.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Do you mean to say if liberals watched Ryan put on a dirty apron and wash a greasy pan while wearing business attire, THAT would have changed their minds?
Filth Clinton gets $100,000 a speech. Shall we research how much this compassionate, caring liberal gave to charity last year?
>> ^DarkenRahl:
QM, right on schedule with an inane non sequitur.



The Clintons haven't been releasing their tax returns since Hillary took over the Secretary of State position--it's not expected of cabinet members. Bill and Hillary usually file jointly.

In the time that Hillary was in the Senate, they typically donated about 10% of their income to charity. Which is substantially more than the average.

Likewise, Obama donated 25% of his income his first year in office, including most of the proceeds from his Nobel Peace Prize.

Highest horsepower to weight ration of any car I could afford....miss mine, had to get rid of it before I drove it into the ground in the first year! Next time, getting a used one that's halfway to trashed-

They are fun!

>> ^ChaosEngine:

God I hated that movie. It wasn't because it was bad (and it was fucking awful), but more because it could have been amazing. It had the chance to be awesome high concept sci-fi with decent action thrown in. Instead it resorted to the worst kind of b-movie schlock and a stoned first year arts students idea of profound philosophy.
And that's ignoring how much the movie hates science. Honestly when that retard took off his helmet and said "don't be a skeptic", I nearly walked out at that point.
"Don't be a skeptic"? Are you fuckin' kidding me? Yeah, let's just ignore one of the fundamental tenets of science!
bah....


You hit the nail on the head. They had so many of the right elements actually sitting there, ready to use... But, they really needed another writer or two. They needed one writer to make sure the story wasn't "all-over-the-place", to streamline it while leaving its intellectual side intact and at full throttle; in fact it should've been increased a bit in a few areas, which is my next writer. They needed to keep some of the more unrealistic elements in check as well, like the crashing spaceship...rolling...and her running, IN-LINE with it, such a stupid and corny seen; just CRASH the damned thing!

The second writer needed to shore up all the inconsistencies with the characters and their supposed "psychological persona" created for the movie. We all hate the fact that scientists are in a VERY foreign environment and yet he takes his helmet right off and shows everyone that his science degree was from a Bible University... This trend continues the entire movie, with of course in-line running girl, because that is where the camera is! And, so, so, so, many more to be enjoyed in drinking games to come. This writer would've made sure these idiocies were stopped dead in the script, secondly he would also interject about how certain characters would react to various scenes--in a REALISTIC fashion, not some cheesy SyFy Original movie of the week release...

The aliens themselves, who have seeded life, SENTIENT LIFE (planned out to the extent that the sentient beings would appear very far down their original "release" of DNA material into the environment--that is called ULTRA-INTELLIGENCE!) screw up minor details on their "WMD". This is another ridiculous notion, because if they can plant sentient life around the Galaxy then setting up a spaceship properly would be "kids play" to them... Another hole that needed a script fix or major change.

This movie just needed more development and perhaps less "ego" on-set and more realistic planning and even a real script with insight into the fields being used in the show: anthropology, biology, engineering, and all the other trades and skills used within--they needed to invite REAL scientists on set and to read the script, and to highlight things that were obviously things that wouldn't happen--even IN a "big business" scenario. The actors could've used real "shadows" of their job and a good idea how that scientist would do their job, with advanced technology and knowledge.

BTW, *quality

God I hated that movie. It wasn't because it was bad (and it was fucking awful), but more because it could have been amazing. It had the chance to be awesome high concept sci-fi with decent action thrown in. Instead it resorted to the worst kind of b-movie schlock and a stoned first year arts students idea of profound philosophy.

And that's ignoring how much the movie hates science. Honestly when that retard took off his helmet and said "don't be a skeptic", I nearly walked out at that point.

"Don't be a skeptic"? Are you fuckin' kidding me? Yeah, let's just ignore one of the fundamental tenets of science!

bah....