I didn't watch it, and doubt I will, but I'm still intrigued.
Fleshy, nutritious fruits didn't really get going until just after the dinosaurs died. Forests closed up, cutting off wind, meaning fruits needed a new way to scatter their seeds. At the same time, fruit-eating animals started to get bigger (dinosaurs didn't really eat fruit). So the nutritious, fleshy fruits we know today developed along with the birds and mammals that came to prominence after the dinosaurs died. At least, I think that's how it went.
It's funny that they apparently sidestepped all the issues we talked about yesterday (why go back 85 million years? What about effects on the future?) by just saying, "By complete coincidence, none of those things matter."
Fleshy, nutritious fruits didn't really get going until just after the dinosaurs died. Forests closed up, cutting off wind, meaning fruits needed a new way to scatter their seeds. At the same time, fruit-eating animals started to get bigger (dinosaurs didn't really eat fruit). So the nutritious, fleshy fruits we know today developed along with the birds and mammals that came to prominence after the dinosaurs died. At least, I think that's how it went.
It's funny that they apparently sidestepped all the issues we talked about yesterday (why go back 85 million years? What about effects on the future?) by just saying, "By complete coincidence, none of those things matter."
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Terra Nova. Pilot. Sigh.
- 27/09/2011 01:52:46 PM
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Did they bring the fancy fruits with them?
- 27/09/2011 03:54:20 PM
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Re: Did they bring the fancy fruits with them?
- 27/09/2011 05:26:06 PM
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Were you really expecting philisophical hard science fiction?
- 27/09/2011 07:08:43 PM
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Only hoping...
- 27/09/2011 07:41:28 PM
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Re: Only hoping...
- 27/09/2011 09:59:19 PM
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Re: Roads and weapons.
- 28/09/2011 11:24:06 AM
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I was pleasantly surprised by how they handled the time travel thing.
- 28/09/2011 09:55:22 PM
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If the time gate thing is only one way,,
- 29/09/2011 12:49:00 PM
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I wouldn't entirely rule out TN being able to reach the future somehow.
- 29/09/2011 01:15:49 PM
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The eldest daughter seemed to have some pre-existing knowledge of TN
- 29/09/2011 01:51:12 PM
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A Spielberg project that features a strained relationship between father and teen son, I'm shocked
- 29/09/2011 02:10:08 PM
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