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Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« on: April 21, 2012, 12:41:28 pm »
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Here's their vid: http://youtu.be/7fYYPN0BdBw

Title says it all. James Cameron apparently decided he wants to burn him some world trees.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/google-execs-director-cameron-space-venture-005212432--sector.html
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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2012, 12:44:50 pm »
I'm caught between "This is going to go horribly wrong somehow" and "F*ck yeah!".
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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2012, 01:12:53 pm »
On the one hand.

On the other.

I dunno, we don't have Vulcan contact or Warp Travel so I'm gonna go with the first one. Plus I mean it's James Cameron....
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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2012, 01:15:30 pm »
if it works, it is going to be great.
Recently the private industry made some important steps in space exploration, maybe this is the next?
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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2012, 01:36:25 pm »
Quote from: greatorder on April 21, 2012, 01:27:41 pm
Quote from: Truean on April 21, 2012, 01:12:53 pm
On the one hand.

On the other.

I dunno, we don't have Vulcan contact or Warp Travel so I'm gonna go with the first one. Plus I mean it's James Cameron....
not to mention that planet wide, let alone inter-planetary beaurocracy is very inefficient. the smaller the beaurocracy, the better efficiency-wise.

[Shrugs] It's a balance. Needs to be tailor made. Small bureaucracy does not equal good; it equals cheap. You do have to have enough to make sure that a.) they have the capacity to do their job, and b.) the redundancy to catch corruption.
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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2012, 01:46:14 pm »
Well one reason an inter-planetary bureaucracy wouldn't work that well is communication time. It'd take something like a day to send a light speed message to Pluto if it's at the far end of its orbit from Earth. Even longer for rocks further out.
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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2012, 01:59:31 pm »
Eclipse Phase, here we come....
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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2012, 02:11:22 pm »
Oh sure, I wanted to send people in random directions to take over the universe in the name of humanity waaaaay before James even thought of this idea. You don't see the news talking about me now do you *sniffle*.

Still, looking forward to the eventual zerg rush interplanetary EXTREME DIPLOMACY.
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« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2012, 12:08:40 am »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on April 21, 2012, 02:11:22 pm
Oh sure, I wanted to send people in random directions to take over the universe in the name of humanity waaaaay before James even thought of this idea. You don't see the news talking about me now do you *sniffle*.

Still, looking forward to the eventual zerg rush interplanetary EXTREME DIPLOMACY.

You don't have the money, nor did Google listen to you.
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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2012, 12:33:59 am »
If I was a billionaire, I'd build a moonbase, with a giant railgun that shoots nukes at the earth.

There are reasons why I'm not a billionaire.
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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2012, 01:27:07 am »
Eh, the safest bureaucracies are the ones that can't get anything done.
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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2012, 01:45:52 am »
No they aren't, that's popular wisdom talking. The safest bureaucracies are the ones who have found balance between both trying to root out corruption without being so enthusiastic that they become witch hunters and following standard procedures without being so inflexible that nothing ever gets done and red tape destroys any recognizable level of usefulness.
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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2012, 06:54:25 am »
Quote from: sluissa on April 22, 2012, 12:08:40 am
Quote from: Loud Whispers on April 21, 2012, 02:11:22 pm
Oh sure, I wanted to send people in random directions to take over the universe in the name of humanity waaaaay before James even thought of this idea. You don't see the news talking about me now do you *sniffle*.

Still, looking forward to the eventual zerg rush interplanetary EXTREME DIPLOMACY.

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« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2012, 10:11:27 am »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on April 22, 2012, 06:54:25 am
Quote from: sluissa on April 22, 2012, 12:08:40 am
Quote from: Loud Whispers on April 21, 2012, 02:11:22 pm
Oh sure, I wanted to send people in random directions to take over the universe in the name of humanity waaaaay before James even thought of this idea. You don't see the news talking about me now do you *sniffle*.

Still, looking forward to the eventual zerg rush interplanetary EXTREME DIPLOMACY.

You don't have the money, nor did Google listen to you.

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Re: Director of movie about space mining corp wants to make space mining corp.
« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2012, 10:23:37 am »
Quote from: Mr. Palau on April 22, 2012, 10:11:27 am
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