Will Discovery promote the natural sciences?

[cultcross]

being tonally/visually similar to Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek 2009

I can't imagine sci-fi much more different in tone than nuBSG and the Trek reboot movies. BSG was all gritty realism, dirt and grime, documentary style filming, a sense of ever building despair, conflicted characters and political intrigue. nuTrek is a bright, zany, upbeat, breakneck paced movie series where good guys and bad guys are clear and everything is clean, primary coloured and backed by rock music. Two very different approaches to space opera.
Discovery doesn't really resemble either; although it takes some visual cues from JJTrek, it's pretty different in tone from the looks of things, and apart from blue uniforms I'm not getting BSG at all.

 

[Tesophius]

Yes, within the industry, but from what you are saying at the cost of millions of professional driver's jobs?

huh, where did you get that from?

 

[Nerys Myk]

There is a lot of humor and postivity in "The Expanse" . The most important thing is humans are thriving in space.

Most are barely surviving, It's kind of plot point.

 

[cultcross]

huh, where did you get that from?

Probably the bit where you explicitly said there would be no drivers of any kind in the near future? Implication being that this was as a result of whatever your fast paced creative industry does. Well 'drivers of any sort' number in the millions, that's an enormous labour market made redundant. Potentially even larger in impact than the collapse of British manufacturing, and without even moving the jobs abroad, just deleting them. The economic consequences are very significant, and not as easily dismissed as your posts imply.

 

[Spot261]

Probably the bit where you explicitly said there would be no drivers of any kind in the near future? Implication being that this was as a result of whatever your fast paced creative industry does. Well 'drivers of any sort' number in the millions, that's an enormous labour market made redundant. Potentially even larger in impact than the collapse of British manufacturing, and without even moving the jobs abroad, just deleting them. The economic consequences are very significant, and not as easily dismissed as your posts imply.

This.

 

[KennyB]

These never get old............."Will Discovery promote Devil Worship?" So ready for it to premier and we can actually talk about what it IS instead of what it MIGHT be.

 

[Mudd]

Which would also be true. I'm not one for blaming people for social systems they were born into. Not a popular opinion, but I stand by in anyway.

It's a silly position. There are individuals in positions to make decisions about how all of these things are done. People can change these things.

If you don't believe that individuals can make positive or negative changes in traditions and institutions, or that everyone should just get a pass for participating in the systems "they were born into" it's pretty much a waste of time to talk about the future at all.

 

[INACTIVEUSS Einstein]

Where did I say that? Again on an internet forum, my words are taken out of context. I said I wouldn't blame anyone - I didn't say they shouldn't try. How many people in this world seem to misunderstand that not playing the blame game is different from apathy.

 

[Tesophius]

Probably the bit where you explicitly said there would be no drivers of any kind in the near future? Implication being that this was as a result of whatever your fast paced creative industry does. Well 'drivers of any sort' number in the millions, that's an enormous labour market made redundant. Potentially even larger in impact than the collapse of British manufacturing, and without even moving the jobs abroad, just deleting them. The economic consequences are very significant, and not as easily dismissed as your posts imply.

I said that as a general fact that has nothing to do with my area of work. Ever since 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge 3 competition, it's been pretty clear that we're on a path to automating all commercial auto transportation and we are very close to it now. It is going to be a big hit, especially with truck drivers who remain as the primary occupation in a majority of american states and many regions around the world. In the first phase of transition drivers will still be in the trucks, playing a safety role, but it's not a career I recommend maintaining - I advise investing into new skillsets. Taxi drivers will follow, but that profession has died out anyway for other reasons, first GPS and now car sharing as well as temporary service providers.