orcrist747

HI! Just want to say thanks for that movie. My mum, wife, and all the other women in my family loved it (I did too). We are Indian and the parallels are amazing.

Curied kale mmm... now I am hungry.

As for transcending culture, it really, really, does. I especially appreciated the depiction of Tula's father. The scene where he and the mom are talking about it and he goes off a bit saying, "why does she defy me!" and then seconds later questions, "is he good boy, from good family, does he have good job, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know!."

The love, pain and fear in the performance was tangible, but the line was PERFECT.

So often big traditional families are depicted as tyrannies ruled by misogynistic patriarchs who want to keep their women as chattel and their sons as servants; but it is not always the truth. It is about love and fear for your children and the desire to protect them. And, the knowledge that even though you have raised them strong and capable, this world is terrifyingly capable of juxtaposing nirvanic joy with biblical torment. You just don't know. As a man who is being looked at more and more as a patriarch, that moment of vulnerability was an almost painful mirror.

We have watched that movie nearly 20 times, and it is still good. It may not be hoity toity and artsy fartsy, but it is a classic.

Dude, I am not sure if you are trolling or not, but given how it has been over the last 8 years between the Pres and Congress how can you think your comment is reasonable?

Mr. Secretary, I am sorry to have missed this AMA and post in the hopes you wander back. I worked on stockpile stewardship and HS for a decade before moving over to astronomy, and one of my greatest frustrations was the lack of funds for non-proliferation and real HS. We spend so much money and time on trivially defeated devices like the stupid mm and THz imagers at airports and yet my colleagues and I had to beg for funds to apply to fundamental problems like trying to replace He3 neutron detection with a solid state solution. Despite the fact that we barely have any He3 left. Or engineering fast detection mechanisms that can be fielded at air and sea ports all over the world to help prevent the exact scenario you outline in your video. We're working on that, but the funding is an IV drip!

The lawyers and business people that make up our fine congress just don't seem to get it!?!

What can be done?