Comments on: Gonna go check out the local science fiction convention

By: mcfly

mcfly — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:00:28 +0000

Earth water tastes good. Most water out there tastes like something with 16 legs crapped in it.

Or so I’ve heard. From reliable sources.

I’ve said too much.

By: Eri

Eri — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:54:32 +0000

Reading over this whole thread again and you know we could write our own version of Laugh-in, don’t you?

By: Eri

Eri — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:35:28 +0000

Is that a punk with steam coming out of his ears?

By: TB

TB — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:46:48 +0000

Aw, the poor babies have enough energy to travel between stars, but can’t melt a little ice?

Heck, why not just drop down somewhere in the middle of the Pacific then and suck up all the water they want? I worked out that they could suck up about 80 billion tons of water and just drop the ocean back to where it was in the 1800s. End of sea level problem.

By: FrankC

FrankC — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:33:24 +0000

Not that it adds much credibility, but they did pay lip service to this. Somehow our water being liquid and on the surface is important and unique in the known galaxy.

Don’t ask me how that works, but they deserve some credit for not ignoring the obvious as most scifi films do.

By: VelociraptorBlade

VelociraptorBlade — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:02:17 +0000

This appliesto the entire Oort cloud, actually. Not to mention the moons of every pther plant in the solar system as well, not to mention a vast majority of the planets themselves. Hell, even Venus has water!!

By: TB

TB — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:11:56 +0000

After our water again? Cripes. Hollywood SF. This made me nuts back during the first V television series.

“Hey, monster dudes, you know that nice ringed planet you passed on the way in? Those rings? All them moons? All the water you want, and you don’t even have to haul it out of an atmosphere or filter out the whales.”

By: VelociraptorBlade

VelociraptorBlade — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:06:45 +0000

…. Why the hell didn’t I know about these things? I assumed everything good and geeky existed outside of the Bay Area.

By: FrankC

FrankC — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:53:41 +0000

Well, steam creates energy and energy has infinite possibilities.

I guess the problem adherent to steam is mass. Under future circumstances that problem could go away.

In the movie Battle For Los Angeles, the aliens ran everything on our water. So much so the ocean levels were dropping hours after their arrival. Sounds like fusion but maybe steam was in the equation somewhere. Water seemed to ooze from their mechs.

By: TB

TB — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:37:26 +0000

Steam is something you have to burn things to get. Or split atoms. Or gather sunlight. Most of our energy sources (except wind, hydro, and photoelectric) go through a steam phase somewhere along the line.