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No. They were human beings, and why should their politics matter?
Want to support the alphabet peoples' rights? Go protest outside a mosque then and see how that goes.
Sure, wifi is good in captivity so long as they allow it. Did those people who were welded into their homes in China have wifi too?
People around the world were being put into 'covid camps'. End of story.
If only the Germans had questioned why when the Jews first started going into the camps, then maybe so many might not have died because tyranny always has a start somewhere. It doesn't just happen overnight.
Yes, it's from the book though the person in the book (Wang) didn't use the game helmet and instead was tasked to go to a special research facility that measured the background radiation of the Universe at a certain time and use their scientific headset to view the Universe 'flickering'.
It is explained later that the pair of Sophons (who had been deployed and already arrived at Earth to halt all science from that point on) did this by unfurling to a shape large enough to cover the visible Universe from the Earth so that they could give the fake flickering demonstration.
Sophons, basically put, are created from unfolded photons and are a type of computer which can reside in other dimensions.
Hope that answers your questions.
Peacock acquired the rights to it a while back so they may have it available now if you can access it?
I'm surprised you claim to have seen the Chinese series and then say that the Netflix version is negative towards China because having read all the books and watched the Chinese version 3 times already I was shocked at how brutally honest Liu Cixin's books were about his portrayal of Chinese history and even more astounded that they put this into the series because it is highly critical of China's past actions.
Netflix toned it down big time.
(SPOILERS BELOW)
I also hated that Netflix changed that the aliens thought we were good guys that they could coexist with. They omitted the turkey farmer story and also the later conversation with the alien who told them not to reply. All of those were of great importance to understanding their intent.
If anyone is interested and doesn't mind subtitles, China developed book 1 into a 30 episode season last year which is well worth watching as it goes into much more detail than the Netflix's 8 episode version and is a much better better adaptation of the book's complex history, politics and physics.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20242042/reference/
https://youtu.be/GbD6Ssucq24
I would have suggested a quiet word with them as they are obviously just ignorant of what angels should look like and I prefer to educate people rather than antagonise them although many seem to do the latter when I try the former lol.
You're welcome.
It would have been nice to have educated them on the fact that most of the highest angels are depicted as looking like something out of a Lovecraft novel and that nowhere in the Bible does it state that angels are blue eyed and blonde and that they owe your daughter an apology.
What biblical angels should really look like as they are described - https://youtu.be/bc1OjNcowPU
She gives hope to the future of mankind that she can shrug it off as someone else having a different opinion to hers (albeit a wrong one) instead of going on an insane and manic rant like most youth nowadays.
If only more people could be like her.
Maybe it's listed here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Western_films_of_the_1990s
Ok. They are regarded as post-apocalyptic movies, yes? Then that makes them a sub-genre of science fiction, so again, falls under the umbrella of sci fi.
Except that societal collapse to that extent hasn't happened yet so no, any movie with a lightbulb wouldn't be science fiction because bulbs exist in our current reality.
Should the world, ie the internet and the electrical grid collapse tomorrow and never come back again, how would you survive? Would you know how to convert a vehicle to use methane that you have harvested from your own farming technique? Could you make that lightbulb work again?
Annihilation was pretty good considering the woke aspect of having an all girl team.
Yes there is science, just old style science that was reinvented from necessity. How else do you get methane farming for the vehicles without science?
It's a fictional story that would need science to explain it - therefore 'science fiction'.
Have not heard of Mindwalk. Added to my 'to watch' list. Thanks.
The Man From Earth is my favourite Sci Fi. Would have never believed a mostly single room scenario with just talk would be so captivating and thought provoking.
I came here to say the same thing.
The Shane actor (from his IMDB image) reminded me of Viggo Mortensen playing Aragorn in The Lord Of The Rings.
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