J.J. Abrams is behind the show but those reasons aren't enough for me to like the show. I think this will go down as one of J.J. Abrams first flops which is a shame because he's the guy who's done "Lost" and "Fringe". If only it focused on the world and the mythology than maybe, maybe it would of worked. Oh well...
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Originally posted by escyos View PostThe capsule was a very specific device and as we were told if you don't program it right you kill the person it is in. The DOD was their best bet to get the tech ready, all they had was a small chamber they could take the power out of, getting BILLIONS of dollars meant they could go as far as they needed.
As we saw she was with Miles during the last few years he was in the Militia. She could have learned then.
Do you mean Maggie? Georgia had communication with England but we don't know to what degree and as we have seen entering the Georgia Federation meant passing through a fence and if you were caught you would be killed. And who said Maggie even knew that ANYONE had contact. She spent years trying to get back before she gave up and then moved into a small secluded village in Wisconsin, she would not have known.
The patriots just nuked Atlanta and Philadelphia, they could have many more agents waiting for the power to come back on to move, probably best to keep it off and save lives.
Sail ships are easy to build and maintain and many people would be familiar with it.
Spoiler:I'm thinking the patriots idea is to move through the country getting individual towns to join with them promising to rebuild the US. They could say that the government knows how to get the country back up and running.
There a reason why they were took out those two, it because they were rebuilding the country, at least the parts they controlled successfully, why the patriots sat back in Cuba doing **** all, well they built a navy and planning on nuking the two powers that were rebuilding the country. Only idiots will follow the Patriots.
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Originally posted by knowles2 View PostBut you know the thing that stuck with me is that these guys invented nano machines that could repair a broken leg in a few seconds, could grow a pair of lungs, cure cancer, this technology would be worth billions of dollars, and yet they ran to DOD for funding, you would have venture capitalist, every major corporation on the planet fighting over this and they went to the DOD. Not mind the case that they apparently they were developed to provide renewable, WTF. .
They would have had venture capitalist chewing their hands of to get a piece of the pie. They would have no need for the DOD.
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Originally posted by garhkal View PostPerhaps it was cause of what they were working on (the renewable energy angle) that the DOD DID get involved so they could contain what it did. Kind of like how the CIA got involved in Keanu reeve's cold fusion project in the film Chain reaction.
Again that's even assuming the govt didn't get wind of it and had DARPA get all over it before they could line up venture capitalists for funding.Last edited by knowles2; 15 September 2013, 05:53 PM.
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Originally posted by Brother Freyr View PostDOD is surprisingly invested in renewable and alternative fuel research.
That not up for debate. What strange is that any company that capable of build microscopic machines would approach the DOD for funding when there so many other sources of funding for such technology, phara sector along, foundations such as Bill and melinda gates, the Wellcome Trust, both billion dollars charitable entities more than capable of providing funding in the scale of hundreds of millions, billions of pounds, especially for a projects that would solve all the issues that they are trying to solve, pollution fix, cancer cure, cure for HIV done, cure for Malaria done, hell they could have created a single injection that made humans immune to all diseases.
Technology companies such as IBM that pure a tonne of money in blue sky research projects.
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Originally posted by knowles2 View PostYes they are and they invest substantially in such a technology. DOD been interesting in energy research since the 40s the atomic program. ,
That not up for debate. What strange is that any company that capable of build microscopic machines would approach the DOD for funding when there so many other sources of funding for such technology, phara sector along, foundations such as Bill and melinda gates, the Wellcome Trust, both billion dollars charitable entities more than capable of providing funding in the scale of hundreds of millions, billions of pounds, especially for a projects that would solve all the issues that they are trying to solve, pollution fix, cancer cure, cure for HIV done, cure for Malaria done, hell they could have created a single injection that made humans immune to all diseases.
Technology companies such as IBM that pure a tonne of money in blue sky research projects.
For all we know the DOD found out what they had and made it so they were the only ones to turn to.I'VE GONE WIKI-MAD!!!!
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Originally posted by escyos View PostMaybe their tech wasn't as viable as you think it is. They might have needed the massive resources and near-limitless funds of the DOD in order to get it to work properly. Plus maybe other companies turned them down as they would need too much in order to get it to work on the scale they wanted. That and the fact that the nanites absorbed energy as opposed to produce it meant that it had few applications.
For all we know the DOD found out what they had and made it so they were the only ones to turn to.
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Hi all,
Just a quick note for UK based fans of Revolution. Season 2 starts to air here in the UK on Sky 1 on Sunday 20th October at 2200."What do you mean by 'Oopps'?"
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So it looks like Aaron is turning into Neo.
I'm still enjoying this show, but not as much so far this season. I feel like the "US Government" being that big and that organized is unrealistic. Cuba isn't that big of an island and even with the capital cities destroyed I think the Georgia\Monroe Republics would have some fight left in them. In a more agrarian based society cities aren't as big as they are now so the proportion of citizens killed would be much smaller and the military bases would be mostly untouched.sigpic
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Watched season 1 on Netflix streaming in the past 3 days and now trying to catch up with season 2 on Hulu.
I had intentionally avoided this show because it was on NBC (I watch nothing on this channel if I can help it.), and the premise sounded absurd along with the early commercials of people toting around muskets and swords. I love Eric Kripke's other creation, Supernatural, but his name wasn't enough to motivate me to watch this show.
Saw it on Netflix and thought "what the hell, I'll at least watch the first episode." Turned out the show was watchable and kinda addicting. Certainly not a masterpiece of writing or acting but good enough to entertain.
Last ep of season 1Spoiler:I am rather mad they killed Nora. The one strong female character and actor on the show I liked.IMO always implied.
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^^Yes what LoneStar said in the 3rd paragraph for me, too. Not my favorite SciFi show, but good enough to keep me watching. Love Neville's storyline.
I am wondering the same thing garkahl wonders, I'm wondering if they will show us some of the devastation of the two cities.
One thing they haven't addressed on the show yet that I would like to see, but- they've so far worked around-is how these societies get along in the harsh winters without modern electricity, ect. The Northern half of the US and most of Canada can have very harsh winters.
Maybe that would be too hard to film so they've stayed away from it.
Surely that would impact traveling around especially in the Plains States and Northeast.
I don't recall seeing anything about West of the Rockies-maybe in later storylines?
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