Dark One

And what would they be using for that electric lighting? You'd need a glass blower to do the bulbs, miners finding tungsten or some other metal for the filament, building and maintaining the delivery method for the electricity, building and maintaining the generators, and a whole host of other issues. Lighting itself is useful when you aren't working sunup to sundown just trying to survive and can devote time to nighttime leisure pursuits. People survived for thousands and thousands of years without being able to flick on a lightswitch to chase the boogeyman away.

Communication would be a bigger issue if they were at the stage that they had multiple villages farther than a few hours pony/donkey/space-elephant ride away. In small towns, news travels quick. Even without telephones.

I don't think they were specific beyond "millions". Can't recall. Still, I would be utterly suprised if they managed to get to one billion people total on that planet. I think their planetary population is one par, probably, with that of the U.S. or less. After all, they managed to get all their people loaded into generational (or cryo) starships.

And Novus was the name of the planet, iirc, not the name of the city in question. Though it could've been both, like New York, New York.

Electricity is only useful if you have things that require it. They didn't come on to the planet with tvs and iPods needing to be recharged. They had more of a need to, you know, survive first. That means getting an agricultural base, along with housing and taming the surface, before worrying about keeping food cold when there are other preservative methods. As well as not having the necessary population to be able to devote personnel towards taking care of electricity delivery methods.

They found bog iron deposits within a couple weeks. Surficial deposits, such as bog iron, banded iron formations, copper veins, etc., all have characteristics that make them stand out. At their stage, they are only concerned with the easily accessed, relatively easily manipulated, large % per ton concentrations. Iron stains red from oxidation, copper stains green for the same reason. Gold is found with quartz. Granted, those are terran signs, but not untoward to consider them on a world that is amenable to human life. Plus, they could probably use those six kinos as scouting devices. If they can sample the atmosphere, they may be able to sample the mineral content of various rocks.

They may be able to hammer raw iron or copper into crude tools, but for anything more than that, they'd need to find fuel sources that can burn hot enough for smelting, set up a forge with brickwork to smelt it, fashio crude stone instruments to shape it.

They are starting from utter scratch with barely more than the clothes on their backs. And I don't think their civilization reached anywhere near a billion people, much less the level of population we have to generate the amount of info we do.

2700 exabytes, at least, for the archive of the descendents of the Destiny, i.e. Greer, Young, Eli, etc. They were uploading the sum total knowledge of what their descendents discovered/wrote/thought/etc. They had no (or limited to what was in the kinos) knowledge from the Destiny. And that was probably just books, movies, songs, research, etc and not Ugly Zagnoz fanfiction.

The rope they had might not of been long enough. Assuming a 10' per level floor height, they would've needed at max 160' from that 14th floor. That's a lot of rope to have on hand. Plus, trying to tie them off while they are still climbing? That would be difficult. The one thing I didn't see was an easy way of getting on/off the ladder once started. If there had been access points to each of the levels, not a problem. But didn't see that there. Flaw in the design or writer oversight.

Well...how about any English websites that sell the originals? I'm not against learning Japanese to read a comic. I've tried Amazon.co.jp, and they have some, but not all of the copies I'm looking for. Plus, ya know, the whole mostly-in-japanese on the website making it somewhat difficult to order as well as...large...shipping costs (basically over $33 per shipment).

Churchy was also Baron Harkonnen...quite a flip in characters...

On screen guide shows that it's an hour and that it's part 1 of 2, so...*shrug*.

This is something like the 2nd or 3rd move that the anime block had, iirc. They moved it to Tuesday to start, then I think it went to Wednesday, and now it's Thursday/Friday morning.

As to the woman in charge...why in the hell would you take a job at a sci-fi channel if you hate sci-fi? That's like a vegan taking a job as the head of Burger King. It's the exact opposite of sense.

I managed to read The Hobbit. I got about halfway through Fellowship before my brain just said, "Done.". Could not take another 12 page soliloquy on the leaves of the trees that the hobbits were passing through (hyperbole, I know, but that's what it felt like).

Fifteen might be possible with loosened requirement on monogamy. The thing about that colony in your link is that they were supplemented with outside genes. The Destinyites don't have that luxury. What they had at the start is what they ended up with, with no possible influx of fresh blood.

I really can't see them lasting for 2000 years with that small amount of people and maintaining the "traditional" marriage. Though they do have the benefit of a wide array of base genes, and excepting Volker's renal problem, no seeming major diseases.


Fun sidebar...if you have an interest in genetics and such, one should look into the National Genographic Project. By contributing DNA swabs, one can examine the route that your genes have taken over the Earth. My parents did it and the results were pretty neat. It actually helped answer some questions regarding my family history.

I've heard varying things about the Del Ray/Kodansha thing, so I can't really say for certain.