I'm not even going to try getting into this asinine stuff. More than anything else this thread demonstrates the utter failure of science education in North America. Science has no one to blame but itself for things like Expelled. [link="http://www.xkcd.com/386/"]Duty Calls[/link], educators of America.
I’ve got to say, I agree with Uranium. Although to be fair, Sins of a Solar Empire isn't [I]exactly[/I] hard science fiction, here! It's not exactly Greg Egan or anything! Even so, the whole idea of "organic/natural" versus "mechanical/unnatural" enforces this ridiculous illusion that there's something essentially different about "life" that sets it apart from "non-life". Nothing could be further from the truth. It's all the same thing at the bottom. A really advanced species (more adva
My pet peeve about most popular science fiction is the obscenely unrealistic depiction of physics. I am firmly of the opinion that people are not inherently imbeciles and that treating them as though they might actually be capable of grasping a little bit of reality is not a recipe for certain failure. Therefore, if I could have designed the game I wanted to design and play, whatever that entailed (but without going off the deep end by, say, accurately simulating all the physics in the
If there were a Sins expansion pack with new content, I'd like to see more fairy stories about the police. Additionally, I think capital ships should play a larger role in the fleet. Too often their presence simply isn't decisive enough. This is not to say that they should be too decisive, but I quite often feel that their presence is largely for the purpose of damage control. A capital ship should be something big and scary, that can take on a large number of smaller ships simultaneous
I like that bit about eating through gas exchange. Very unique. And since they're a genetically engineered species, I bet that was an election. The legs, those backwards looking ones, are actually feet. It's called digitigrade, lots of Earth animals have them. Only the first joint is a knee, the second one is an ankle. I bet they're related to humans in some way - the anatomy of the two species is just far too similar to ignore. Everything about them screams "distant cousin." What's chasing them
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