@ZZZYZZZ: There's something about starlines that will always, always trump a rainbow/lensflare combo. But to nitpick - in star wars they go into Hyperspace, which is akin to going through a wormhole I suppose. Star Trek ships are the ones moving at near the speed of light.

@GusF: Actually it seems like the rainbow effect only happens in the several movies after the first. In the first, that was totally a Red-White-and-Blue patriotic warp jump

@Jeyl: I'm suddenly reminded of the insufferable star trek nerds from one of the earlier South Park seasons, where they spend the entire episode arguing over whether a 2-part Star Trek episode counted as one or two episodes.

@Cory Gross: And people whine these days when they see a "2" at the end of a title. Yeesh!

@midgarddragon1: Because 1) he actually knows what he's talking about and 2) he pissed you off, which amuses me :D

So this isn't a joke, then? Because I totally joke about how someone should do this all the time.

@MisterFoo: I seem to recall a list on this site regarding "movies that would actually be better, had they gotten the science right"

@Pittsburghmuggle: Yes, what's Discovery's ETA on getting this online for the slowpokes and busybodies of the world? I can't believe it aired already!

@thebluepill: well how exactly *do* you fight back against politicized junk science without getting political? I mean...in a way that's actually effective.

@Captain_Midnight: "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

@markcanwrite: Dust doesn't need to actively emit radiation to be visible, it just needs to reflect it. That's the trouble - a sufficiently large cloud of dust surrounding a galaxy would necessarily reflect tons of radiation from the billions of stars inside said galaxy.

And Vegans are forced to get one step closer to becoming Breatharians :p

@mrradon: Thinking about it...you could probably combine every Shayamalan twist into a single parody using the assumed plot of Devil. It's like the perfect staging ground to make fun of him with!

@kalaeth: Where they get you is the alcohol prices. Why do you think it's never Happy Hour there?

@kalaeth: Those are much too expensive. But we've got a bunch of very affordable alien sex-slaves from Probablydeseasedia 12.

@Stephen Fronda: That's really great to hear! At that rate, Clark may actually start thinking about becoming superman by around his late 60s :p

@odinbearded: I've heard that magnets naturally lose their magnetism over time, even the so-called "permanent magnets", which is one of the reasons why you can't create perpetual motion with them. I suppose the same would apply to monopoles? Or do they avoid this somehow?

@Feasle: That would be really cool. Or at least an "ask an Astronomer" section. Too bad Phil Plait has his hands full with his new show

So, if you had enough of this to make a monopole bar magnet...what kind of cool stuff could you do with it?

@DrMathochist: You know, it never occurred to me to ever ask "what's the purpose of a photon?" If I had, I never wouldn't expected that answer, yet it makes perfect sense.