@Ruler of Eden: I think that's more a result of spotty servers, actually. They're getting hit pretty hard since this article.

If anything, I could totally buy this as Doc being a tragic villain. I mean, clearly he means well. It's just that his good intentions result in disaster! :D

@REDante: If you're saying "dude, it's just a movie" then I don't think you actually DO understand the logic :p

@Apollinarius: But test has become artificial ever since it was codified in the 90s, with nuanced rules and specifications on the human element. Which defeats the purpose. The original Turing Test was derived from a note-passing party game, where the object was to figure out if person A or B was a man/woman, with…

@PistachioWildebeest: I don't know...it could be that she's pulling a Groucho routine on you.

Again and again, these 'fake-out' AI chatbots fail the most basic attempts to hold their attention beyond one line of questioning at a time. I feel like these programs are increasingly being made to defeat the test itself rather than actual humans. Which just goes to show that the Turing test is not actually a good…

@Norseness: "This is Bowie to Bowie, are you really far out there?"

@LordTwinkie: Because the alien promised him a turn with Walter, obviously.

The headline image sold me; the info about Dan Cook handed my money back. Also, assuming slasher movies are misogynistic was the mistake "Jennifer's Body" made.

@RenRen: There's also the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy argument, which says that Space is so mindbogglingly large, everything that exists inside of it basically counts as nothing. So even we don't technically exist, in the grand scheme of things.

@cc: +1 for noticing a Rosencrantz & Guildenstern reference.

@stereobot: re: what wdef said. the Big Bang was an explosion of spacetime itself, not the stuff inside spacetime that makes up the observable universe.

@a_blackpanther: The fish are the potential spectra of light, the trawlers are the pumpkinseed oil, the fish left behind are the reflected spectra, and the fisherman was dead the whole time.

@Elak Swindell: details.

I keep saying this, but these guys need to just give it up and turn this thing into a movie. Starkiller is cool, but not in a "I want to platform as him" kind of way; he's cool in a "I want to sit back and watch him kill people" sort of way.

@Elak Swindell: Dude. Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars. The Mace Windu 2-parter. He blew up a fucking army. With his mind.

@Eddard: lol

@Brian McDonald: I'm usually not surprised by how a corrected sentence reads, but I really had my money on the word "avoid" sitting between "like to" and "the sequel".

@Lorcan McGrane: No space prison is complete without Christopher Lambert.

Right, so either Zarmina doesn't exist at all, or there's a bunch of them. One of the two.