beyond the wide world&#39;s end

Honestly, it's actually a bit horrifying. What happens when the spy cameras become so good that we can't tell what's organic and what's microchip? When the butterfly in your garden could be listening in to make sure you're not saying or doing anything that the government doesn't like? It's bad enough that the government can look at your library books and your phone records without you knowing...

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Yes, but from a technological viewpoint, flying robot insect spies! And from a military viewpoint, it's really cool technology -- I mean, it's a little more trustworthy than human spies, can get into places that humans can't, plus you don't have to wait for that whole face to face communication thing...

Anyway, it seems highly impracticable for the government to have several billion of those fluttering around the entire United States. It has to be really expensive technology; they're not going to put it on just anyone. It's going to be someone that's already suspected, that probably already has wiretaps and whatnot, legal or otherwise. And I'd really prefer that our government had the tech than someone else's government.

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It has to be really expensive technology;

That's what they said about computers. Only twenty years ago.

If our government has it, it'll probably take a month before other countries do, too.

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I would really rather not talk politics, seeing as the majority of my views take a sharp right turn from the rest of LJ.

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Alright, point :D

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Could we just take a moment to geek out about how we've finally reached the science fiction age?

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It's not the science fiction age until I have my jetpack and flying car.

WHERE IS MY JETPACK, TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY?!

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Beginning of the science fiction age, then.

Jetpacks are overrated. *sticks tongue out* Teleportation for the win!

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Yeah, but they promised us jetpacks! (Of course, they also promised us, like, computers the size of a small room, but thankfully they moved past that one really quickly).

Some scientists in Europe figured out how to make invisibility a year or two ago.

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Yes, but they also said we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000. *looks around*

The Japanese came up with invisibility cloaks three or four years ago.

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Hey, I bet there's secretly a base on the moon, and the government just isn't telling us. That, or we never really made it to the moon, and it was all in Arizona.

Maybe it was Japan, not Europe. Also, hey, they invented MITHRIL. If that's not High Science, I don't know what is!

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Heh. There's a base on the moon in the Spaceforce novel.

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SEE. PROOF.

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Oh my God, does that mean we really are involved in someone else's intergalactic space war?

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YES. IT'S VERY LIKELY.

(the Goa'uld are right on our doorstep, but the SGC hides it well)

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Oh dear. Well, that would explain why Bush wants to reopen the space program. Base on Mars!

(let's set the Wraith loose on the Goa'uld and see where that gets us.)

(btw, I'm going to try to get the latest Lorne scenes up before I leave.)

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When's your flight?

Wraith vs Goa'uld, FIGHT FOR HUMANITY'S ENSLAVEMENT.

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Ten-ish, but I'm leaving Ellensburg around five.

AND THEN THE STORMTROOPERS COME.

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Wow, leaving so early? Where're you driving to, Seattle-Tacoma? Soooo early!

AND WE'RE ALL DOOMED.

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Shuttle bus to Sea-Tac, then I'll be at the airport two hours before my flight like the nice airlines always say -- I'm totally bringing some of my homework.

OH NO WHO WILL SAVE US?

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Wow, see, I feel lucky if I arrive at the airport 45 minutes before my plane takes off... and I fly international! *such a bad flier*

Boo homework!

UM, UM, JOHN SHEPPARD?

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*snort* I always try for the two hours thing, myself.

Alas, homework!

CAMERON MITCHELL, RODNEY MCKAY, JOHN CRICHTON, AND JOHN SHEPPARD?

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MCKAY WOULD PEE HIS PANTS IN FEAR, BUT MITCHELL AND SHEP WOULD SWOOP IN WITH THEIR P-90S AND A FEW GRENADES AND BUST SOME ASS.

Who's John Crichton?

You're such a good traveler. And, clearly, a good student. Ugh, homework. This is me pointedly not studying for my midterm on Tuesday.

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Rodney could blow something up!

John Crichton is the hero of Farscape. He's played by Ben Browder.

Not that good of a student, or I'd be doing my homework now.

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Ooh. I heart Ben Browder, but I never really watched Farscape.

McKay would blow something up only after Shep yelled at him to stop cowering in the corner. ♥

Hey, it's Saturday, even the good students take the day off!

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You would love Farscape -- Ben Browder is criminally underused on Stargate. It hits all my literary kinks, plus, Ben Browder in leather with guns.

Nah, I think he's advanced to the point where he'd blow something up all on his own.

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I really want to, but I have no idea where to watch the eps from, and can't afford to buy them.

Hm, maybe.

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TV Links has most of them.

(If you have a couple minutes, go see Lorne at

beyond_bedlam and tell me what you think!)

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Ooh, really? Maybe I'll do a marathon watching tonight isntead of writing my novella.

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Although I should add that some of them mysteriously stop after the first five minutes and fifty seconds, or at least that was my experience when I watched them a few months back. But they're really, really good. I am going to try very hard to get them on DVD sometime.

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Hm, okay, I'll check 'em out. Someone might upload them to one of the sci fi comms someday, who knows?

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They probably are on one of the sci fi comms. They're very popular.

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Yeah. I'd rather watch them on streaming video, though, instead of downloading them all. If I hit page 15 tonight, I'll search around for them. That's my goal :D.

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Check out the pilot, at least -- Ben Browder is really, really convincingly alone and terrified.

(Also, Claudia Black!)

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