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Makaru

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  1. One great example of a film that stooped that low was Lucy which pulled the disproven "we only use 10% of our brain" crud. The word science is just a modifier for the word fiction.

     

     

    Please please please don't tell me that we are going to use Lucy as the bar for science fiction. If this is the case, the genre is now dead and buried.

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  2. Oh hey, I came up with a better idea. Jurassic Park... but instead of a dinosaur zoo, it's a ren faire. Clone a bunch of medieval-era Englishmen. Raise them Truman Show-style, without ever knowing that it's the year 2015. It's even easy to make it as inaccurate as Jurassic Park—just leave out anyone who isn't white, like Hollywood does! Or, y'know, mix in frog DNA. Whatever works.

     

     If I may... Um, I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it.

     

    You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now

     

    teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-smash-up-20

     

    You're selling it, you wanna sell it. :)

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    Skype and Tumblr are locked in a dead-heat race to see who can destroy their respective successful internet networking products the quickest.

    Why so?

     

    I have no idea, it's certainly not a choice I would have made.

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