Game of Thrones

[Dave (imported)]

I remember starting to watch this when it began a few years ago.

One thing that turned me off was a great muscular leader of some rather barbarian tribes from the south (???) who had the need to have public deflowering ceremonies with his wife for the troops to salivate over. That put me off. It didn't seem realistic.

A second thing was that they killed a child rather early in the dramas for the sake of establishing a bad guy and a promiscuous and evil princess. If I wanted an evil queen type of female character, I already knew of a magnificent example in Lady Kaede from Kurosawa's RAN.

A third thing was that "give them a dog thing" that started and I didn't stick around long enough to understand. I didn't think that the great white hordes of northerners was going to be that interesting, either. They bored me.

Sorry, but my interest petered out, so to speak, did a downer, so to speak...

[Dave (imported)]

I got rumors of dragon fire on this episode of GAME OF THRONES ...

Actually what the website said was that Daenerys Targaryen (the attractive blond woman with the long braided hair) lets one of her dragons breath fire on someone and the website described how they did the stunt. They put a stunt guy in an elevated basket with a flame thrower and then flamed a stunt man on the ground. It seems Daenerys Targaryen doesn't like the slavemaster and doesn't appreciate being called the "B" word. Rhymes with itch.

Neat stunt and effect. It occurs near the end of the episode.

[Riverwind (imported)]

my son was talking about that today, he gives me a daily of what is happening as I have not watched it, He told me last week what was going to happen, then it did, yes he is that good. Anyway now she has an army of I think my son said 80K who were once slaves and are now free.

River

[moi621 (imported)]

River

Daenerys or however,,"Mother of Dragons" sets her army of slaves free and

they of course all chose to follow her as free persons.

Besides having a habit of setting slaves free she can be - - - and after completing

the deal to acquire the Slave Army yet to be set free - ordered her Slaves to

kill their former masters and the dragon to make a fiery hit on the guy in charge.

She impressed her advisers when they think her naive.

It was a good episode. Watch it and don't cop to it. Its' okay.

Moi

I like Bron, he is so

Bron is Not in this episode

[hazbalz (imported)]

Yeah, Moi, the final 10 minutes were great. The storyline for Daenerys is one of my favorites. I'm still trying to figure out who exactly has Theon as prisoner.

[Buzz1221 (imported)]

@hazbals -- Yeah - isn't everyone? My money's on his father or sister. It's certainly NOT Rob Starck. I just wish they had sense enough to know that one doesn't interrogate a prisoner -- especially one on a cross -- with his clothes on. He really ought to be naked and instead of torturing his feet they ought to be concentrating on his balls. A nice castration would be icing on the cake...

but they didn't ask me.

[moi621 (imported)]

Yeah, Moi, the final 10 minutes were great. The storyline for Daenerys is one of my favorites. I'm still trying to figure out who exactly has Theon as prisoner.

I do not know who holds Theon, prisoner.

My guess, just a guess - his father is giving him "the iron test".

We know the Stark forces did not take him.

What say Meister Slammr?

[moi621 (imported)]

From the latest issue of Science.

That's Science. Not Science News or Science Digest or Kiddy Science or Pablumized Science.

http://zippy.zapto.org/Science%20-%20Ap ... cience.pdf

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Game of Habitable Zones

In the world of

Game of Thrones, summer can last for years, winter for a generation. Fans have

long debated the reason for these unpredictable seasons—and now astronomers at Johns Hop-

kins University in Baltimore, Maryland, offer a hypothesis: The show’s setting may be a world

that orbits two stars instead of one.

On this hypothetical planet, years last 700 days, and the two sunlike stars orbit each other

every 100 days. This complicated dance results in erratic seasons, with winters that can last any-

where from 600 to 850 days. Because

the orbit is a three-body problem, pre-

dicting the length of the seasons in

advance would be impossible for the

computerless maesters of Westeros.

“With heavy hearts, we conclude that

our attempts to provide the good folks

of Westeros with a reliable weather

forecast are inconclusive,” the authors

wrote in a paper posted on the arXiv

server on 1 April.

Other earth scientists are skeptical.

The pattern of winters and summers

plotted in the paper “doesn’t quite

seem chaotic enough” to cause the tur-

moil observed in Westeros, says Stephen

Kane, an astronomer at the California

Institute of Technology in Pasadena who

has studied the habitable zones of exo-

planets in such circumbinary orbits. He

suggests injecting a bit more chaos by

introducing a third star to the system or

reimagining the planet as an exomoon

orbiting a gas giant. Still, this paper “is

on the right path to providing a purely

physical explanation” of the Westerosi

seasons, he says. “Of course, if there’s

magic involved, all bets are off.

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Wow it copy pasted.

Enjoy what the great Ivory Towerist have to say on GoT



You are all so very welcome

[Paolo]

A generation of winter? Do they import food, then, to keep from starving? Or eat each other?

[hazbalz (imported)]

@hazbals -- Yeah - isn't everyone? My money's on his father or sister. It's certainly NOT Rob Starck. I just wish they had sense enough to know that one doesn't interrogate a prisoner -- especially one on a cross -- with his clothes on. He really ought to be naked and instead of torturing his feet they ought to be concentrating on his balls. A nice castration would be icing on the cake...

but they didn't ask me.

Y'know, Buzz, the exact same thought crossed my mind.

Moi, you just may be right. It could be his father & sister giving him the iron test.

Paolo, seeing how an Army of the Dead is approaching, eating each other just may be the answer.