>> ^Opus_Moderandi:

I think Aliens is a horrible movie, at least for that franchise. It's more about testosterone than it is about aliens. Too much militant bravado for my taste.


Should I remind you that almost everyone in that film was in the military...?

I'm such a James Cameron fan. He can do no wrong.

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@dannym3141, I upvoted your reply as I appreciated the time you took to share your thoughts. I can see how your post might be interpreted as rude or aggressive but I don't think that was your intention. If you were really trying to be a jerk then you can say your sorry my visiting my p-queue and upvoting everything.

@spoco2 did a superb job in explaining what I was trying to convey...many thanks!


>> ^dannym3141:

@spoco2 - i hope @critical_d would feel comfortable to speak to me if she/he felt like i was being rude. I do not consider how i spoke to be harsh, i was using natural language, bit of local slang perhaps, i was trying to make some decent scientific points without sounding like a beligerant dork.
I don't think i was harsh or rude? I see critical upvoted my comment, so i think it's probably ok, maybe some knowledge was shared in a positive way, spoken colloquially between two people of different ilks.....ON TEH INTERNET. And that's great.

>> ^surfingyt:

Perhaps some scientists feel if they can find life on another planet the final nail in religion's coffin will be hammered?>> ^critical_d:
Odd how the scientific community seems to have more enthusiasm for exploring the oceans of Titan than our own. I read somewhere that the technological aspects of a dive like Cameron performed are as complex as a moon landing. I guess the thinking was that if something went wrong seven miles below then you are just as screwed as if you were in the Frau Mora Highlands. If the ultimate goal is to setup a colony on Mars or our own Moon, then we should practice in our own backyard first.



What? Are you kidding? Even if scientists did confirm the existence of alien life the religious will just move the goalposts in the same way they did when the world was discovered to be round, and that the earth was not the centre of the solar system, or indeed the universe.

The Vatican's "Pontifical Academy of Sciences" has even held a conference on alien life:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6536400/The-Vatican-joins-the-search-for-alien-life.html

For the deeply religious no scientific proof that contradicts their religious beliefs will ever be proof enough.

Perhaps some scientists feel if they can find life on another planet the final nail in religion's coffin will be hammered?>> ^critical_d:

Odd how the scientific community seems to have more enthusiasm for exploring the oceans of Titan than our own. I read somewhere that the technological aspects of a dive like Cameron performed are as complex as a moon landing. I guess the thinking was that if something went wrong seven miles below then you are just as screwed as if you were in the Frau Mora Highlands. If the ultimate goal is to setup a colony on Mars or our own Moon, then we should practice in our own backyard first.

>> ^critical_d:

Odd how the scientific community seems to have more enthusiasm for exploring the oceans of Titan than our own. I read somewhere that the technological aspects of a dive like Cameron performed are as complex as a moon landing. I guess the thinking was that if something went wrong seven miles below then you are just as screwed as if you were in the Frau Mora Highlands. If the ultimate goal is to setup a colony on Mars or our own Moon, then we should practice in our own backyard first.


Firstly you make the mistake of assuming that all scientists COULD be working on deep sea exploration. There wasn't a scientist working on it but then a bloke pulled him away and asked him to do space instead. Not all of them enjoy marine biology, not all of them work in the correct or an analogous field.

Secondly, there is always the argument AGAINST directed research. That is, most of our most amazing discoveries happened through studying something else and often enough by accident, so why would directed research be any better? The cosmic background radiation was discovered at bell laboratories and they thought it was due to pigeon shit at first. You may as well go back in time and tell einstein to stop pissing about with light and help solve real world problems like in-car navigation. Then suddenly 50 years down the line we have no state of the art GPS system because he didn't go into relativity.

Thirdly, exploring deep sea trenches is, i believe, an engineering problem rather than a theoretical problem. Why would a scientist need to stop working on discovering things to help to either build or generate money for something?

Fouthly, if you think there's interesting stuff in the tiny amount of water that exists on our planet, you should read up on space.

Finally, at least some of the software tools developed by computational astrophysicists have been used to solve earth-bound problems such as climate change and weather systems, so if you study something else you may end up killing two birds with one stone.

Why the hell would anyone rather look at the ocean which is right next to us over the deepest reaches of space anyway? But if we find the key to faster than light travel down there, i'll be looking sheepish

My color/pseudo-genre comparison of Alien movies:

Alien: silver and gold / haunted house
Aliens: grey blue and green / vietnam
Alien 3: yellow (piss-soaked) / prison
Alien Resurrection: cyan and maroon (brown) / French farce

I might watch the trailer a couple more times, but aside from that I'm not watching any more footage of this movie before it comes out. These movies are my favourite. I'm thrilled to see Ridley swoop back in to elevate it after the drudging it's gone through over the past 20 years.

I wonder if pasting Gwiz' comment from the Alien trailer will work?

>> ^gwiz665:

James Cameron's Aliens: http://www.videosift.com/video/Aliens-Trailer
David Fincher's Alien 3: http://www.videosift.com/video/Alien-3-trailer
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection: http://www.videosift.com/video/Alien-Resurrection-trailer
Color observations of the alien franchise
Alien - gray (black/white)
Aliens - blue
Alien 3 - brown
Alien Resurrection - green.
Will the new prequel by Ridley Scott be red, perhaps?

Sorry to bust your bubble, but infinite growth is simply not possible, nor is it desirable. For economic growth you need demographic growth (just look at how EU keeps sucking in immigrants to counterbalance the non-renewing fertility rate... it's definitely not out of kindness of heart). More people = more mouths to feed, but also exchanging cultivated land for inhabited land. Moreover, even if we manage to have 100% renewable power, much of the material we use (metals, gases, etc) are of a finite nature and rapidly depleting. Recycling is great, but can never be 100% effective, and even if it could, there are elements (think helium) that once they're gone they're gone, basta.

In the long run, we can only have a sustainable society if the growth imperative is scratched out of our mentality.

>> ^artician:

>> ^hpqp:
As long as our society is built around the imperative of growth (economic, demographic), we will continue to irretrievably destroy ourselves. The equation is simple: infinite possibility for growth - finite resources = self-destruction.

The thing is, renewable resources = infinite resources. I really believe infinite possibility for growth can be sustained, but what we have here is irresponsible growth. It's not growth as much as a viral consumption.
I think the next step is to start getting some names. Company names, shareholder names, CEO names. Find the people responsible for making these decisions, and education or kill them. Wait... what?
Anyway, this will never stop unless you confront individuals directly. It's very rare that indirect opposition (pacifist movements, ghandi/king jr. civil rights) works. So rare that I've given up on it for such dire circumstances.
Dear America: still feeling all that white guilt from the complete genocide of several hundred thousand indigenous natives on the norther continent? Well it's still happening right now. Now's your chance to make up for it.

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>> ^hpqp:

As long as our society is built around the imperative of growth (economic, demographic), we will continue to irretrievably destroy ourselves. The equation is simple: infinite possibility for growth - finite resources = self-destruction.


The thing is, renewable resources = infinite resources. I really believe infinite possibility for growth can be sustained, but what we have here is irresponsible growth. It's not growth as much as a viral consumption.

I think the next step is to start getting some names. Company names, shareholder names, CEO names. Find the people responsible for making these decisions, and education or kill them. Wait... what?
Anyway, this will never stop unless you confront individuals directly. It's very rare that indirect opposition (pacifist movements, ghandi/king jr. civil rights) works. So rare that I've given up on it for such dire circumstances.

Dear America: still feeling all that white guilt from the complete genocide of several hundred thousand indigenous natives on the norther continent? Well it's still happening right now. Now's your chance to make up for it.

I've recently been receiving invitations to events for Amazon Watch, a charity for Hollywood-types to further this cause.

James Cameron is one of the members.

In related news, the dam that Cameron refers to in this video has been approved by Brazilian president Dilma, despite the tens of thousands of letters and e-mails that were sent in protest and opposition.

Here is a photo of Chief Raoni (who appears in this video) upon hearing the news.

This is why James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow had to divorce; too much arguing about getting the right shot.

>> ^deathcow:

I dont mind the casual logo in the movies. What I mind is the TV show "Bones" demonstrating features on Toyota cars. Look! I'm using the autopark feature!


What, you mean you didn't like the Bones episode about James Cameron's Avatar...and how awesome that episode was, and how great the movie is, that we should all just watch it right no.....*goes and watches Avatar*

=P

>> ^BoneRemake:

What gives you more pleasure, Final Fantasy or Robot Chicken ? @kceaton1


If I could have both at the same time like this, it would be completely obvious.

Otherwise, it's Robot Chicken. Now if we could create a videogame-Robot Chicken-Spielberg/Lucas/Nolan/James Cameron/Ridley/Peter Jackson/Guillermo del Toro /Joss Whedon (to keep the others on the up & up) and then Hans Zimmer/Williams (I know)/Jerry Goldsmith/Trent Reznor/Cliff Martinez/ & Dennis McCarthy for sound. Lot's of the people involved would innately clean up mistakes (like Lucas at some point; for example).

It would be the best thing ever...

Did you want a short answer?