tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361259991182372686.post5730311189735377639..comments2023-03-30T02:00:51.228-07:00Comments on Life Without Dragons: Busy Bee Makes Time FlyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361259991182372686.post-7583281415986468662010-01-04T12:40:32.649-08:002010-01-04T12:40:32.649-08:00Mecha robots are pretty much always impractical an...Mecha robots are pretty much always impractical and stupid. The mecha having a knife or holding a gun just highlights it.<br /><br />But so is a mining operation that is meant to profit share holders who must live light years away... unless the share holders are also moving at relativistic speeds it would be impossible for them to enjoy their unobtanium gains (Krugman actually wrote a paper on interstellar economics btw :P). So I had to stow my 'hard scifi' thoughts firmly away during the whole movie. I did OK with that, but yea, that knife thing did make me flinch. <br /><br />I really did enjoy the movie though. I wish they had expanded more on the notion of a planet where everything is literally networked, but I guess that would be more scifi and less explosions and generic native religion.Ian Monroehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16953610792430204523noreply@blogger.com