It’s nice to be reminded from time to time that beyond all the storytelling elements about space, space itself is pretty damned impressive.
Technologist and Storyteller Mark Harris takes a look at a kind of microscopic life form that might just be cut out to be the real interplanetary explorers. Certainly a better natural fit for the job than humans are.
The TV show Ringer really got me thinking. (Maybe for the first and last time on a show of that caliber.) With banker’s facing life terms to protect the fact that they’re stealing, what’s really to stop them from dropping a few bodies to stop it from getting out? Have we figured out a way to make white collar crime violent?
Watching Starship Troopers last night made me want to give thoughts to a bunch of problems I’ve had with the movie for a long time. Staying late up into the night, I spelled them out in the hopes of spurring a discussion about what does and doesn’t matter in a storyworld.
Richard Branson has come out not just for de-criminalization but for legalization of drugs. Of course, the government won’t agree on any ‘premise the drug war is a failure.’ Given the cost, both in terms of real lives and money, will anyone who believes in keeping drugs illegal ever come around?
