BattleStar Galactica Miniseries and Seasons 1 to 3 in less than nine minutes

Its CHOCK FULL OF SPOILERS so if you watch it be warned.


[Error: unknown template video]
For those of you wondering what all the fuss is about with this show.


Its also very funny.

Star Trek The Original Series: Remastered Comparisons

[Error: unknown template video]
Via Robert J. Sawyer sfwriter.com

A compilation of some of the changes made to the original series when they redid the special effects. Season One is out in HD DVD and forthcoming in Bluray.

The realities of interstellar trade: calculating interest charges at light speed

Via edg_traveller

A paper apparently written in 1978, by a Paul Krugman of Yale University, about the difficulties of calculating shipping costs when you are travelling interstellar distance at an assumed speed that is faster than light or with travel times that could number in the hundreds of years. This is also complicated by the fact for a person on a ship time passes slower than the people left behind or at the ship's destination if the ship travels at any great speed.

The author describes it as a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, the opposite of the usual economics paper.

http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

Paul Krugman's bio here: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/KRUGMAN-BIO.html

And a talk by him on Income Inequality and the Middle Class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kwA-CwFK5A

Twenty Four Hour Meme:

We have twenty four hours together, all the money, passports and visas we need, what do the two of us do?

Comments screened for your protection.