Best Scifi Series ever, canceled! (OT)

[Wardad]

Dogscoff,

I think the Morman Fanatics would create their own colonies if given the chance.

[dogscoff]

Realistically, when individuals emigrate to other places they tend to do it with people they are familiar with, who tend to be from their same culture, so you will probably expect to find many ethnically restricted planets.

Personally, i think it is more likely that ethnicity will eventually cease to exist if globalisation continues at its current rate. Space colonisation would probably accelerate the process.

As more and more babies are born with parents of different races, completely white/ completely black/ completely {insert ethnic grouping here} people will become more and more of a minority compared to the growing group of mixed heritage somewhere-in-the-middles. Eventually, dozens or hundreds of generations into the future, everyone will be the same colour.

Looking at the proportions of ethnic groupings in the current world population (ie the vast majority of the human race being in China and the 3rd World), you can try to guess at what the final colour of humanity might be. All those white supremacist arseholes are in for a shock

Granted, loads of people, for whatever reason, find people of their own colour more attractive or at least more available, but eventually globalisation will change this.

This might one day spell and end to racism, which can only be a good thing, but the loss of diversity saddens me. Then again, by that time we'll have the tech to modify our bodies' colour as easily as changing our clothes. Being black or white might one day be nothing more than a fashion statement=-)

It also makes you wonder whether 200 generations ago there might have been racial Groups and genetic features which have been bred out altogether now...

[Major Tom]

I think that there is enough cultural paranioa in just about every society to keep 'the cultures separate'. Look in any society, and 'intermixing' is looked down upon, even in very liberal societies. You can force equality in law, but never force it in thought, unless some brainwashing machine is used, and that would require a lot of quarters.

(on a side note here, I never understood why different types of people are called different 'races', as you do not call a poodle to be of a different race then a schnauzer. Indeed, isn't there just one race of humans? The Human race?)

[Captain Kwok]

In Toronto, I'm glad to see a lot more inter-racial couples nowadays. It should be really interesting in about 20 years when a lot of the recent immigrant's children begin to move away from a lot of different traditions etc...

[Deathstalker]

"(on a side note here, I never understood why different types of people are called different 'races', as you do not call a poodle to be of a different race then a schnauzer. Indeed, isn't there just one race of humans? The Human race?)"

Amen. I just wish more people would realize this, eveyone is human (even lawyers....or tax collectors ). People just put too much emphasis on race (both for and against). We're people. Lets just leave it at that and get on with our lives.

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Deathstalker:
"(on a side note here, I never understood why different types of people are called different 'races', as you do not call a poodle to be of a different race then a schnauzer. Indeed, isn't there just one race of humans? The Human race?)"

There is only one human SPECIES. Race is more like nationality. Of course, some people living in different environmnents have some unique adapatations that are normally not found anywhere else.

Edit: Yes some racial Groups are "extinct". Some ethnic Groups in siberia are now gone, Native tribes were almost entirely killed off, and some of the first nations/ethnicities are gone, hauled off by a stronger power or massacred

[ October 11, 2002, 17:56: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[Wardad]

Originally posted by TerranC:

Edit: Yes some racial Groups are "extinct". Some ethnic Groups in siberia are now gone, Native tribes were almost entirely killed off, and some of the first nations/ethnicities are gone, hauled off by a stronger power or massacred [/QB]

The pure blood Hawians are few in number. The rest either intermarried or died of disease.

So there are natural forces at work besides one tribe of monkeys beating another one with sticks.

[gregebowman]

I'm living in the South (Florida in particular),and believe it or not, I see a lot of interracial couples. Sure, we got some rednecks down here who probably still have their sheets hanging in the back of their closet, but from what I've seen since I've lived here is that it's not such a big thing anymore.

[Major Tom]

Hate to beat a dead horse, but here in Ontario they just put Farscape on syndication with ANOTHER set of TV stations.

So far, that makes 3 stations showing Farscape in Ontario (all of them are at different points in the series).

We get Farscape on TV on Monday at 8:00pm, Friday at 8:00pm and 9:00pm (twice with 2 different stations showing different episodes) Saturday at 3:00pm and Sunday 2:00pm (however, one Friday, Saturday and Sunday show the same episode).

I really believe that this show is finally taking off, 'Ratings' here are fairly high (as it is given very favorable timeslots). Unfortunately I beleive it will do a 'Star Trek' and really only take off after its cancellation. However, this might lead to what happened with a few other shows.

Star Trek started to go to the movies (possibly the Farscape season finale will be finished in a movie, or made for TV movie).

A Canadian show called Nikita (based off of the French la Femme Nikita) ended after so many years, but the fan base responded with a letter campaign that had them do another 1/2 season to finish off the show right, instead of the quick ending they had before.

So, Farscape may not be saved as it is, but it could come back if it does very well in syndication in different forms (movies, a short season to end the show, or a new series).

[Rich04]

For those that are interested-

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/...farscape.shtml