Terra Nova
I can feel brain cells dying as I watch. Look, guys, dinosaurs are really big and all, but they're not Jurassic-age Terminators. If you shoot them often enough with really high-calibre weaponry, eventually they will start to bleed, and at some point after that, particularly if you keep shooting at them, they will fall over and very possibly die. What, is blood too expensive to animate?
Also, if the population laws are so strict, why don't they just sterilize every couple as soon as they have their second kid?
And this whole control the past/control the future thing... lemme 'splain. No, let me sum up. Time is long. Time is really, really long. You think the walk down to the corner druggist's is long, it's got nothing on time. Between the KT extinction event and the Overcrowded Dystopian Future (TM) is not hundreds of years, not thousands of years, not tens or hundreds of thousands of years, but millions of years. About sixty-five point five of them, to be precise. The first hominin (or, to be technical, 'the first even remotely potential human-ancestory thing') appears in the fossil record a mere 7-6.5 million years ago. Fully modern humans appear fifty thousand years or so ago, and recorded human history occupies about the last ten to twelve thousand years.
This means that in the time between the extinction of the dinosaurs and the Crowded Dystopian Future (TM), mankind would in theory have time to go from this guy to nuclear Armageddon TEN TIMES. Human beings can barely plan ten years ahead, much less ten thousand, and as for ten million, don't make me laugh. Control the future my ass. Time will chew you all up and spit you out and if you're really, really lucky, the intelligent cockroaches will have a footnote in the January 30,000 AD issue of Cockroach Archeology about the anomalous appearance of unclassifiable bone fragments in one obscure dig, which will be dismissed as a hoax by the intelligent praying mantises.
About the only way this show's gonna keep me watching is if they discover a monolith with "Beware Sleestak" on it.
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Also, if the population laws are so strict, why don't they just sterilize every couple as soon as they have their second kid?
And this whole control the past/control the future thing... lemme 'splain. No, let me sum up. Time is long. Time is really, really long. You think the walk down to the corner druggist's is long, it's got nothing on time. Between the KT extinction event and the Overcrowded Dystopian Future (TM) is not hundreds of years, not thousands of years, not tens or hundreds of thousands of years, but millions of years. About sixty-five point five of them, to be precise. The first hominin (or, to be technical, 'the first even remotely potential human-ancestory thing') appears in the fossil record a mere 7-6.5 million years ago. Fully modern humans appear fifty thousand years or so ago, and recorded human history occupies about the last ten to twelve thousand years.
This means that in the time between the extinction of the dinosaurs and the Crowded Dystopian Future (TM), mankind would in theory have time to go from this guy to nuclear Armageddon TEN TIMES. Human beings can barely plan ten years ahead, much less ten thousand, and as for ten million, don't make me laugh. Control the future my ass. Time will chew you all up and spit you out and if you're really, really lucky, the intelligent cockroaches will have a footnote in the January 30,000 AD issue of Cockroach Archeology about the anomalous appearance of unclassifiable bone fragments in one obscure dig, which will be dismissed as a hoax by the intelligent praying mantises.
About the only way this show's gonna keep me watching is if they discover a monolith with "Beware Sleestak" on it.
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