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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday January 02 2020, @03:12PM (4 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 02 2020, @03:12PM (#938629) Journal

    Babylon 5: you don't have to live in the giant space tube. You could live on a nice planet somewhere. Like Minbar, where everything is peaceful, plentiful, and there could be no possible conflict or differing opinions.

    Missing option: The world of Soylent Green.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday January 06 2020, @05:35PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday January 06 2020, @05:35PM (#940273)

    You could live on a nice planet somewhere. Like Minbar, where everything is peaceful, plentiful, and there could be no possible conflict or differing opinions.

    Oh, great, so now I'm likely to be murdered by Centauri, Shadows, or Vorlons as part of some intergalactic war I had nothing to do with really, or driven from my home and killed walking to the next city by the Minbari warrior caste in a civil war.

    In general, I think the question assumes that the future will be better than the present, when a lot of good sci-fi does not make that assumption.

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 06 2020, @06:46PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 06 2020, @06:46PM (#940297) Journal

      Notice that my sentence about Minbar did NOT have any <no-sarcasm> tags.

      Like Minbar, where everything is peaceful, plentiful, and there could be no possible conflict or differing opinions.

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  • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday January 10 2020, @05:58PM (1 child)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Friday January 10 2020, @05:58PM (#941973)

    I voted B5 because of the cool little star-fighter things. Imagine a world rendered by a cluster of Amigas!

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday January 10 2020, @08:05PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 10 2020, @08:05PM (#942010) Journal

      Babylon 5 space is way more colorful than other Sci Fi space.

      Of course, if you were close enough to see all that colored visible light, you would probably be dead from radiation.

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