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2009/12/6-26 [Science, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:53570 Activity:nil |
12/5 If Harry Potter is rewritten in a modern style using science instead magic, and using real people and references instead of fiction, what could it include? I'll start: -Slytherin Pureblood = Nazi Ayran -Muggle = melting pot -Dobby = Black slavery, illiterate -Voldemort = GWB? Hitler? ?? -Wizards = scientists? lawyers? -Giants = jocks? \_ fundamentalists -Muggle = melting pot \_ pragmatists -Dobby = Black slavery, illiterate \_ the working poor, economic slavery, child labour \_ Underpaid H1B visa holders in Silicon Valley doing shitty coding stuff that greencard holders don't want to do -Voldemort = GWB? Hitler? ?? \_ any charismatic leader leading with fear. There's a tonne to choose from. -Wizards = scientists? lawyers? \_ professionals. Magic replaces science/engineering. Check out Dresden Files. Wizards there can't even be in the same room as technology, it breaks/shorts out, glitches, dies. -Giants = jocks? \_ neanderthals, or people soon to be culturally irrelevant \_ you mean the Jews? -Ahmadinejad \_ 'old europe' \_ libertarians \_ the middle class -GWB \_ check out the many journey to the west versions. there is one by leiji which is sci-fi space/android themed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqTPkiEteQ |
2009/12/6-2010/1/3 [Uncategorized] UID:53571 Activity:nil |
12/5 Do they really have giant radio/radar towers in the midwest? |
2009/12/6-26 [Science/Space] UID:53572 Activity:nil |
12/4 "This time system adjusts for shifts in relative time which occur due to the vessel's speed and space warp capability. It has little relationship to Earth's time as we know it. One hour aboard the USS Enterprise at different times may equal as little as three Earth hours. The stardates specified in the log entry must be computed against the speed of the vessel, the space warp, and its position within our galaxy, in order to give a meaningful reading." So, physicists, is Roddenberry talking out of his ass? \_ Of course he is. \_ do you know what science FICTION means? \_ I thought trek prided itself on bringing the SCIENCE to fiction. \_ no that's space 1999 |
2009/12/6-26 [Uncategorized] UID:53573 Activity:nil |
12/5 Does anyone know what language group the Long A phoneme comes from? \_ No, but one of my tenants is getting his PhD in linguistics from Cal, I will ask him for you the next time I see him. \_ this might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenseness \_ Isn't 1/3rd of soda linguistics majors? |