I'm aware that being an executive producer can be as simple as, "here's a
big pile of money, go and do great things, and don't forget to put my name
on top."
Still, for a guy that made a career out of making Peteh Griffin go, "HAH
HAH HAH" to get a chance to go all elder statesman on us makes me think I
invested my life in all the wrong things.
> Heheheh
>
>
>
> I was as shocked as you when I saw he was a producer months back but when
> I
> saw an interview with NdGT about it made a lot more sense.
>
>
>
> Cant find the original interview but heres one with Seth and while I
> dont
> have a ton of use for Family Guy you cant deny hes right about the lack
> of
> Science literacy in the world and if this makes people wonder and question
> things well Im all for that.
>
>
>
> http://youtu.be/Ua5xqQpZp8Q
>
>
>
> My 7 year old is kind of on and off about the program, hes the poster
> child
> for ADHD and when hes got the focus hes onboard for it but when the
> focus
> dwindles its difficult for him to concentrate long enough to connect the
> thoughts. Oddly he cheers every time Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking
> are mentioned, although he doesnt really understand what theyre about
> theyre his heros for some weird reason. Ill just go with it.
>
>
>
> It probably started when he was about 5 and I was watching something about
> the theory of relativity on the TV and after this long discussion on the
> TV
> that he really didnt seem to be following he looked at me and said. So
> theyre saying that an object in space bends and twists the fabric of
> space
> around it?
>
>
>
> From: []
> On Behalf Of
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 10:36 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] Re: TNE - Stellar failure
>
>
>
>
>
>> On a related through, I noticed in your reply to DED that Frank hated
>> the
>> high-pop hostile world. I really hate those, too, and (with the
>> horrible
>> upheaval even in the Domain of Deneb/Regency) used that as an excuse to
>> ruthlessly crush many (maybe most) of those worlds. (In fact, I
>> initially
>> went too far and ended up putting some of them back.)
>
> I remember some early pre-TNE conversations where Frank saw the Hard
> Times, post-Rebellion, eventually Collapse dynamic as an in-game "silver
> lining" way to get rid of those worlds.
>
> Not an invalid thought, but you'd still have players and RC going to them
> to scrounge vacuum-preserved goodies. And there was also the dynamic that
> star change introduced into it. In addition to the Hi-Pop airless rocks
> you also had the Hi-Pop worlds with atmospheres around stars with no
> habitable zones, which worked out almost the same way, because you still
> had to put the population under domes or underground to provide artificial
> heat. Fixing the stars would allow them to survive without technology, but
> would require the "Collapser" to remember to fix the star before applying
> "Collapsing." That is the way it ought to have been done. Maybe the
> Gelinas article Alan mentioned in Challenge 77 goes into that, as I am
> clearly leery of saying, "this is what we did, and we succeeded," where
> that dynamic is involved.
>
> By the way, I had the TV on last night and watched some of the new
> "Cosmos" series on Fox, and I realized what the root of all my problems
> is.
>
> The executive producer of the new "Cosmos" is Seth McFarlane (Family Guy,
> American Dad, Cleveland Show).
>
> Clearly, everything that I thought I knew about anything is wrong. Just
> wrong.
>
>> Ø Oh look, there's Alell. Never mind, DED, we found it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Oh look, there is a big ol screw-up on me.
>>
>>
>>
>> The physical characteristics of Alell are 467. So, yes, indeed, it
>> should
>> have had one of its stars increased to be F-K. I probably should have
>> made
>> it have stellar data of K7V M7V. I dunno why I screwed it up. Maybe I
>> thought two M7Vs in a tight formation would have produced enough heat?
>> Regardless, I should have definitely bumped it. Maybe I could have
>> swapped
>> it around with Boughene and make Boughene be an M7V, and Alell be a K7V
>> M7V
>> so as to try and keep the distribution a little more like the original.
>>
>>
>>
>> On a related through, I noticed in your reply to DED that Frank hated
>> the
>> high-pop hostile world. I really hate those, too, and (with the
>> horrible
>> upheaval even in the Domain of Deneb/Regency) used that as an excuse to
>> ruthlessly crush many (maybe most) of those worlds. (In fact, I
>> initially
>> went too far and ended up putting some of them back.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike West
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
big pile of money, go and do great things, and don't forget to put my name
on top."
Still, for a guy that made a career out of making Peteh Griffin go, "HAH
HAH HAH" to get a chance to go all elder statesman on us makes me think I
invested my life in all the wrong things.
> Heheheh
>
>
>
> I was as shocked as you when I saw he was a producer months back but when
> I
> saw an interview with NdGT about it made a lot more sense.
>
>
>
> Cant find the original interview but heres one with Seth and while I
> dont
> have a ton of use for Family Guy you cant deny hes right about the lack
> of
> Science literacy in the world and if this makes people wonder and question
> things well Im all for that.
>
>
>
> http://youtu.be/Ua5xqQpZp8Q
>
>
>
> My 7 year old is kind of on and off about the program, hes the poster
> child
> for ADHD and when hes got the focus hes onboard for it but when the
> focus
> dwindles its difficult for him to concentrate long enough to connect the
> thoughts. Oddly he cheers every time Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking
> are mentioned, although he doesnt really understand what theyre about
> theyre his heros for some weird reason. Ill just go with it.
>
>
>
> It probably started when he was about 5 and I was watching something about
> the theory of relativity on the TV and after this long discussion on the
> TV
> that he really didnt seem to be following he looked at me and said. So
> theyre saying that an object in space bends and twists the fabric of
> space
> around it?
>
>
>
> From: []
> On Behalf Of
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 10:36 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] Re: TNE - Stellar failure
>
>
>
>
>
>> On a related through, I noticed in your reply to DED that Frank hated
>> the
>> high-pop hostile world. I really hate those, too, and (with the
>> horrible
>> upheaval even in the Domain of Deneb/Regency) used that as an excuse to
>> ruthlessly crush many (maybe most) of those worlds. (In fact, I
>> initially
>> went too far and ended up putting some of them back.)
>
> I remember some early pre-TNE conversations where Frank saw the Hard
> Times, post-Rebellion, eventually Collapse dynamic as an in-game "silver
> lining" way to get rid of those worlds.
>
> Not an invalid thought, but you'd still have players and RC going to them
> to scrounge vacuum-preserved goodies. And there was also the dynamic that
> star change introduced into it. In addition to the Hi-Pop airless rocks
> you also had the Hi-Pop worlds with atmospheres around stars with no
> habitable zones, which worked out almost the same way, because you still
> had to put the population under domes or underground to provide artificial
> heat. Fixing the stars would allow them to survive without technology, but
> would require the "Collapser" to remember to fix the star before applying
> "Collapsing." That is the way it ought to have been done. Maybe the
> Gelinas article Alan mentioned in Challenge 77 goes into that, as I am
> clearly leery of saying, "this is what we did, and we succeeded," where
> that dynamic is involved.
>
> By the way, I had the TV on last night and watched some of the new
> "Cosmos" series on Fox, and I realized what the root of all my problems
> is.
>
> The executive producer of the new "Cosmos" is Seth McFarlane (Family Guy,
> American Dad, Cleveland Show).
>
> Clearly, everything that I thought I knew about anything is wrong. Just
> wrong.
>
>> Ø Oh look, there's Alell. Never mind, DED, we found it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Oh look, there is a big ol screw-up on me.
>>
>>
>>
>> The physical characteristics of Alell are 467. So, yes, indeed, it
>> should
>> have had one of its stars increased to be F-K. I probably should have
>> made
>> it have stellar data of K7V M7V. I dunno why I screwed it up. Maybe I
>> thought two M7Vs in a tight formation would have produced enough heat?
>> Regardless, I should have definitely bumped it. Maybe I could have
>> swapped
>> it around with Boughene and make Boughene be an M7V, and Alell be a K7V
>> M7V
>> so as to try and keep the distribution a little more like the original.
>>
>>
>>
>> On a related through, I noticed in your reply to DED that Frank hated
>> the
>> high-pop hostile world. I really hate those, too, and (with the
>> horrible
>> upheaval even in the Domain of Deneb/Regency) used that as an excuse to
>> ruthlessly crush many (maybe most) of those worlds. (In fact, I
>> initially
>> went too far and ended up putting some of them back.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike West
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>