Battlestar Galactica Hosted At the UN 252
TheDopp writes "The United Nations hosted the cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica Tuesday evening in New York. Clips of the show were shown as discussion points during the event, touching on the morality of Suicide Bombers in war, Abortion and the use of torture on enemies of the state. At one point during the event an attendee mentions 'the "Old Man" launched into a passionate speech about casting off the idea of race as a cultural determinant, and said we were one race, the human race. His voice echoed throughout the chamber growing louder until — I kid you not — he was yelling, "So Say We All," and the crowd answered right back. Hell, even I yelled it, I was in the fraking United Nations with Adama, the gods themselves could not have stopped this moment.' The full video of the event is located on the UN website."
Video (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Video (Score:5, Informative)
It's a stupid playlist. Try opening the file as text, copying the first line, and playing it with mplayer:
mplayer rtsp://157.150.195.57:554/ondemand/specialevents/2009/se090317pm.rm?cloakport=80,554,7070
The quality is substantially inferior to YouTube though.
YOUTUBE version (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Hmmm.. Another Hollywood Republican comes out? (Score:2, Informative)
> But I thought we just elected a POTUS almost entirely based on his biracial itentity.
Nope. The republicans managed to find themselves the perfect storm of hubris and arrogance. They managed to screw the pooch badly enough that people got over the fact that the other guy was black.
The hick fundie out-of-touch governor from the great white north was just the icing on the cake and that last push necessary for a lot of people to get over old predjudices.
Re:Bastards made piece with the Cylons (Score:3, Informative)
That goes for the mod who bumped up your post to "interesting" as well. Frakking idiots.
Re:Hmmm.. Another Hollywood Republican comes out? (Score:0, Informative)
Fact: race is a social construct, or better put, genome variation research does not support the existence of human races (races being defined as genetic subspecies' of humans). Fact: there is more genetic variation within groups thatn there is between groups. This is easily tested: If you are "white," simply go out to a public place, get a "white" person and a "black" person, and all three of you go get DNA tests. There is a high probability that you will share a closer genetic makeup with the "black" person than with the "white" person. I would personally not take offense to the theory that people with a certain amount of melanin share traits, except that it IS NOT TRUE.
For example, you take as given that theere are certain "racial groups" that are more at risk for certain type of diseases. I have to assume that you are referring to sickle-cell anemia, although you might be referrring to Tay-Sachs. Sickle-cell has been shown to correlate with trade routes in Africa, and has no higher occurrence among those with a higher skin melanin content in the regions where it has occurred more frequently.
I don't care if my science comes with a smile, but I insist that it comes with some science.
Re:/me shakes head (Score:5, Informative)
Well, it wasn't quite that. Watch the video. It's 100 students and a few members of the UN listening to a couple members of the BSG cast.
They were simply using the building, which added the illusion of authority to the event. If it had happened in any other venue, it wouldn't have been news.
It does give the impression that they were addressing the UN General Assembly, which simply wasn't true.
The event was more of a photo op.
Re:More news... (Score:4, Informative)
huh, good thing that first kiss didn't turn out to be a blow job. THAT would have been awkward later on.
Re:This is disturbing (Score:3, Informative)
Only the UN security council really does anything that involves military interventions. And this wasn't the general assembly let alone the security council.
And actually the main job of the UN is to dick around and make it look like international law and treaties aren't made in shady backroom deals.