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Say that to Nicky and Hera.

Save the world? Maybe not. Change the world, definitely.

I would have said the same to somebody who suggested Tigh was one of the final five.

What kind of retard made that quiz? Bulbasaur.

People who I don't think are Cylons and why: Roslin - reasons above Admiral Adama - his contract prevents it Starback - she's got her weird destiny plotline Baltar - he's the embodiment of base human nature, and again has his own little destiny plotline Anybody who is dead (Ellen, Cain, Kat, etc) I think Lee Adama might be the Cylon from a dramatic bang perspective. He's one of the most human characters on the show, without being a tosser like Baltar. Zarek is also a contender.

Ok then. But if, say, Cain is a Cylon then she is not dead... Dualla? My bad. What he actually said was "the final Cylon is in the fleet currently". A lot of people have suggested Ellen but personally I don't think it would work even if she were alive... two Cylons is lame. You've got to expect the final Cylon to be an even more dramatic surprise than the final 4.

I do plan to travel overseas to do aid work in East Timor, India or Africa. As for risking my life, well if Australia were under attack as it was when the Japanese were bombing us in WW2, I would join the defensive, yes.

Moore said no dead characters are the final Cylon. Ellen will be returning in Tigh flashbacks.

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Yeah, I know. And we've already partly seen that in the global-warming/environmental movement of my generation. But the Internet is consistently forcing ideological change and paradigm shifts upon the world. It's not a one-shot deal.

Our smoke alarm is rigged up to our burglar alarm. In the case of the motion sensors activating (whilst the house is in vacant status), the police are called, while if the smoke alarm activates, the fire brigade is called. Kaftan: Ouch man. One of the residential colleges near me was newly built. It was supposed to be the ANU's crown gem of residences. People paid big bucks for it. For the first year, every second day the fire alarm went off (often at 4am and such). I mean every second day. The fire brigade couldn't ignore any alarm, so they came every time. I believe it cost the residence $1000 each time.

1) He announced it JFK style? Right, I'll be sure to send Bush the memo "In the future, when NASA plans a new project, don't tell anybody". Anyway, this thread is about plans for a moon base, not plans to send a human to mars. Pretty much. They're not part of the ISS team. Don't blame me for that. That's nice. Good luck to China. And good luck to you trying to relive the 'glory days' of the cold war, but somehow I doubt you'll get much success. Helium-3 might be found on the moon in viable quantities; there's no guarantee. Anyway, helium-3 isn't as good as some people hype it to be. It's not a wonderfuel; most analyses estimate that using helium-3 as a fuel isn't worth it (infrastructure wise, but also based on the huge amount of He-3 by weight needed), let alone mining it from the moon. If it gets to the point people start fighting over helium-3, China and America as you know them today will already be dust in the wind. Again, I`m talking about the inicitives such as the x-prize... out of the box innovations that may be stummbeled uppon. Contractors that charge goverments for tin foil to wrap the spacesandwiches are not independant contractors as far as I`m concerned heh. monopoly is bad ;P As for the government argument... I really see no huge benefit of governments leading the way. I moreso see the huge risk of ever increasing militarization of space and territorial disputes "offworld". I think your imagination is getting too much air time here mate. It's a moon base. It's not a freaking missile silo on the moon. It's about a million times easier to strike earth from earth rather than from space. And we are so far away from 'colonising' space that it's laughable, yet you bring up 'offworld disputes' as if it's a valid argument for space today. As for government monopoly - I'm very pleased the private sector is taking an interest in space. My point was that rules, regulations and restrictions on space should be in the government's hands (just as they are here on earth), and the government should hold the majority stake in space (Capitalists might disagree). If you can't see why at least government regulation is for the best, I'm seriously not going to argue with you. The entire EU has a space agency so that's a good first step. And the EU's space agency integrates fairly seamlessly with Russia's and America's. Other countries involved in the ISS are: Brazil, Canada, Japan. I think this is pretty close to a UN space agency. China has expressed some interest in joining the ISS, but hasn't yet. It seems as though they'd much rather have everything to themselves and thus build their own. That's their choice. USA turned down Russian proposal for a joint mission to Mars I hear... so much for governments working together for the greater good heh... Gotta make sure the right colours fly on them spacerocks yep yep hehe... While it annoys me that every post you make is political and aimed at seeing the worst in things, I'd just like to point out that Russia and the US have been working together in space for something like 20 years. If one of them wants to do a certain mission on their own, I hardly think it's time to proclaim a new cold war. As a side note, NASA gets about half of their plutonium fuel for space from Russia, and as it stands has enough of their own to last about 2 more missions, running out in 2020. It's not the end of the space programme, but you can probably see why it's not the beginning of a new cold war, either.

The food in the frying pan was burning, then the smoke hit the fire alarm, which triggered the burglar alarm, and now the fire brigade is probably coming and my ears really, really hurt.

Yes, I too go around proclaiming things that I've never tried shouldn't get sequels.

God damn it. I read this thread before I went to bed, and then I dreamt about voxels all night. They have sharp teeth.

Sure, I'd prefer that too! It doesn't seem believable however, that when it comes to securing extraterestrial territory, the nations of the earth stand united. Cf. Russia and the north pole. I mean, I love the idea of space travel, exploring other planets/moons etc., and the technology involved/envisioned is amazing (and I'm European, thus not using emphatic words like "love", "amazing", "great" if I don't mean them ), but I just can't see it happen for a human collective in the near future. Haha. Yeah, the Dawn takes about 4 years to become faster than a rocket engine (at something like 1/40th the fuel), but after that it's gravy. I think you overestimate the scope of this mission, samm. The moon isn't something with resources to exploit. Even if it were, there's no feasible way to do so without sharing. This mission is a proof of concept sort of thing - it doesn't return the money that is put into it; nothing in space does except satellites. Damn Europeans and your bleak world-views!

Yeah. The internet is one of the biggest forces for globalisation, good or bad. Also, because of its exponential growth, doubling every two years, that means you're also going to see massive changes every two years as people innovate to take advantage of the capacity. Comparatively, the things Meshugger mentions are rather limited in their scope: as fish run out people will move to a more sustainable food source, or at the worst, starve. And people have already begun studying new methods of fuel production - hydrogen, geothermal, solar, etc. But do these really constitute forces of change? Oh, we've switched fuel sources. That's a massive ideological move! All hands man the paradigm shift!

Hahaha. That is an epic tale. :D You're right - PS:T isn't your average game. It's kind might pop up once every five to ten years. It's definitely not a common occurrence, but plenty of games in the past and present are built without a popular IP, without big business backing, etc. It can and will happen again.

Fallout managed it. As did Morrowind (Daggerfall). And System Shock 2 (Bioshock was intended as essentially a spiritual sequel) Plenty of games manage to get sequels many years later. *shrug*

Where did the article say ion drives are recent? Does it even mention ion drives? Although Dawn's method of acceleration with patience is new, and ion drives have been underutilised so far (they're more expensive, but rockets can't do inter-stellar trips and ions can).

My bets: Baltar's hand-maiden, Cally, Zarek, Gaeta, Lampkin, Doc Coddle. It's definitely not Adama or Roslin though. Heh in the contract for the actor for Adama's character it says "Not a cylon." Roslin's just a plain dangerous bitch. Possibility: the five deliberately went undercover as humans, and left the final cylon as their keeper to activate them. Maybe it was Lampkin? He certainly popped up at the right time, he spouted wisdom, he was enigmatic and sort of charming, he's alive in the fleet but relatively on the side-lines... let me check if he shows up again. He does. Episode 9 and then again at least once in the final 10 eps of the series. We'll have to see if it's as a cameo or as a Cylon. http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Romo_Lampkin Come on doesn't that just scream 'Cylon'? He's awesome. And if Tigh can be one, so can he.

Moore also said it's somebody we've seen. He didn't say how frequently but yeah. There's ample speculation that Gaeta is a Cylon. Remember how he did that essentially impossible FTL jump calculation in his head?

I disagree, Nick. Torment left the one of the biggest ****ing blips on the gaming radar you're ever going to find. It's not like those other games you mentioned - they faded into obscurity (god Giants was awesome).