{"id":110209,"date":"2009-12-28T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12853770.post-8788734746640403641"},"modified":"2009-12-28T19:38:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T00:38:16","slug":"the-economists-hit-pandora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/110209","title":{"rendered":"The Economists Hit Pandora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mighty God King <a href=\"http:\/\/mightygodking.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/22\/so-we-went-to-see-avatar\/\">reviews Avatar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ME: You know, I have to admit \u2013 the Nav\u2019i look totally natural.<br \/>FLAPJACKS: There is no uncanny valley.<br \/>ME: You only know that concept because of that one episode of 30 Rock.<br \/>FLAPJACKS: So?<br \/>ME: I\u2019m just sick of critics who learned a new phrase thanks to Tina Fey and want to show off.<br \/>FLAPJACKS: Speaking of that episode of 30 Rock, I\u2019m pretty sure I didn\u2019t need to see the blue aliens doing it.<br \/>ME: Oh, quit whining. You barely saw anything.<br \/>FLAPJACKS: But now it\u2019s in my head.<br \/>ME: Okay, the scientists are totally going about this the wrong way with Giovanni Ribisi, Businessman. They should have been all \u201cthis entire planet is a gigantic biological computer more advanced than anything we\u2019ve ever imagined. <em>Think about how much that would be worth.\u201d<br \/><\/em>FLAPJACKS: Wouldn\u2019t work. Giovanni Ribisi, Businessman, is all about the quarterly profit report. I know this because he said \u201cit\u2019s all about the quarterly profit report\u201d at the start of the movie. He is an Exxon-type guy and you are presenting a Google-type business plan. Ne\u2019er shall the two meet, because despite what people might say about Google, Google is never going to hire mercenaries to kill aliens.<br \/>ME: They might hire mercenaries to spy on aliens.<br \/>FLAPJACKS: Well, that\u2019s Google for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The scary thing is, I heard the phrase about a planet scale biological network that can upload the consciousnesses of the dying, and thought, &#8220;they should really tell the business guys that that could be really valuable, so don&#8217;t, um, fuck it up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/12853770-8788734746640403641?l=bottlerocketscience.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mighty God King reviews Avatar: ME: You know, I have to admit \u2013 the Nav\u2019i look totally natural.FLAPJACKS: There is no uncanny valley.ME: You only know that concept because of that one episode of 30 Rock.FLAPJACKS: So?ME: I\u2019m just sick of critics who learned a new phrase thanks to Tina Fey and want to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}