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This article shows that the future merging of the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies may be sooner than previously thought:
Recent analysis of past observations made by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope have found a massive halo of hot, heavy gas surrounding our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda. This expansive mass of material around Andromeda could mean that it will begin merging with the Milky Way ahead of schedule.
In fact, the articles goes on to say the merge may have already begun if the Milky Way contains a similarly sized halo.
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A woman was in love with fourteen soldiers. It was clearly platoonic.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by VLM on Monday May 11 2015, @12:24PM
What's it like in Andromeda?
Not too bad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_%28TV_series%29 [wikipedia.org]
I don't think "andromeda ascendant" is a very creative ship name. Then again it wasn't a very creative show, and my local navy thinks city and state names are wildly creative, so I suppose a "space battleship" named after a galaxy is not too unreasonable of an extrapolation. Then again Culture ships have vastly more creative, more memorable, names.
I'm pretty sure the ship AI is the girl from hak5 or a look alike clone. No surprise at all, she's hot so the andromeda actress is Canadian. Its the side issues that make the show interesting. So you've got a ship full of "seamen" (ha ha) and on one hand making the ship AI look like that probably gets a lot of attention from the crew, yet, is also likely to be incredibly distracting.
In the push for AI phone/watch/Siri type stuff I'd consider using Siri if she looked like the andromeda ship AI, but as a disembodied voice I donno. Speaking of Siri the shittyness of modern UI design is on display where on ST:TOS you'd push a freaking button to launch torpedos or WTF but on the Andromeda you need to chat up the ship's AI, convince her to go home with you, and then after 5 minutes of that BS you can talk her into launching her torpedos. Modern UI design is difficult hard work and an amazing technological achievement, and its also hideously anti-productive and slow and useless, just drill "her" console and install a "fire torpedos" pushbutton and skip all that shitty modern UI design work.
Its definitely a "guilty pleasure" class of TV show. Its really, really dumb, yet somewhat entertaining. I'm not sure if the writers were aiming for lowest common denominator intentionally, or were just dumb and uncreative. If you ignore that, maybe put it on "mute" and watch anyway, the special effects are pretty good and its moderately entertaining. Its one of those things where investing the cost of one martial arts / dancing fight scene or one special effects scene into the writing would have dramatically improved the show. Then again (spoiler alert) didn't the high rave chick crewwoman become the soul of a star (insert eye rolls here) ?
Its fun to watch the show and tick of the parodies of other shows. Oh she's their Deanna Troi. Once again James Kirk bangs the chick with green skin. Come on Scotty stop BSing the captain about it taking 3 days and just do it in 10 seconds. Thank god someone finally shot jar jar binks. Help me obi one you're my only hope. I suppose there's a drinking game buried in there. Hey I lost my crew, but luckily the Village People were playing a set in the local star system so we gots us a new crew of crazy country bumpkins. Y M C A let me tell you bout the Y M C A...
Or in summary, its cool inside the Andromeda, at least cool enough to visit. Not sure if I'd want to join the crew, at least not permanently.