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Dark Matter, SyFy's new space show, premieres June 12th

Untrue. We also have lots of rocks. And trees. And water.

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But we Canadians will never stop telling the rest of youse about how big we are.

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In Alberta, we make Hell on Wheels, which is all about the mountains and prairies, which we have lots of too. We also make Fargo, which is shot here. In summer.

As for Toronto, I can't fault people wanting to film there with all its people and stuff. I *can* fault them for re-using the same damn abandoned warehouses, boreal forests, and malls in all the shows filmed there.

Mark
 
"Canadians are the nicest people you'll meet, until you put a hockey stick in their hands. We should just give them all hockey sticks and tell them that ISIS has the puck".

-Craig Ferguson
 
Christopher said:
now we even know that our planetary system is actually an oddball rather than a typical system, that it's unusual to have all the rocky planets near the Sun and all the giants farther out.
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I think it's a little early to say our planetary system is an oddball, given our limited ability to detect other planets, and even those systems we have found planets in represent a minisucle fraction of a percentage of the stars in our own galaxy never mind the stars in the billions of other galaxies.
 
MacLeod said:
I think it's a little early to say our planetary system is an oddball, given our limited ability to detect other planets, and even those systems we have found planets in represent a minisucle fraction of a percentage of the stars in our own galaxy never mind the stars in the billions of other galaxies.
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True, there's still a degree of detection bias in our methods, but by this point we've accumulated enough data to make some reasonable statistical inferences. We've certainly discovered a large enough number of systems that aren't arranged like ours that we can be sure they are not rare anomalies. There are plenty of systems with hot Jupiters, plenty of systems with terrestrial planets packed very tightly in close orbits of their star, plenty of systems with superterrestrial planets, etc. Sure, a decade or so ago, we could've assumed that the majority of planetary systems were like ours and we just couldn't spot them yet, but now we've found so many of these "exotic" planetary types and orbital configurations that, statistically speaking, we know they must be commonplace throughout the galaxy, even though our system doesn't have them.

So maybe we don't yet know exactly what proportion of star systems have planetary configurations like ours -- relatively widely spaced orbits, no hot Jovians or superterrestrials, all Jovians out beyond the frost line -- but we do know for sure that our configuration is not the default we used to assume it was. Indeed, our lack of tight-orbiting planets and superterrestrials may make our system somewhat unusual, though it's not too atypical in other respects.

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=34213
http://io9.gizmodo.com/new-evidence-that-there-are-many-ways-to-build-a-solar-1568764902
 
Mark_Nguyen said:
I'm optimistic... But having a plan and having a GOOD plan are two different things..!

mark
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True. By the tone of the blog post, it looks like someone in the production disagreed on a particular character beat - maybe.

And sticking to a plan is not always the best course. But still, it beats not having a plan at all.
 
Teaser for season 2 (which completed filming, last week) on Youtube:
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