There is somewhere on the internet an AMAZING gag real of Nathan Filion committing basically all of the pranks, centering around one line - "I'm Bill Pardy". Please someone find this.

More discussion of the SF writing processsss! More book club, definitely, and I would love, LOVE for io9 to try to rope in some kind of small stable of new authors to publish original short fiction.

Its not in jest at all. I freaked out so hard that I literally needed to calm down and take deep breaths.

OH MY FUCKING FUCK-GOD. IT LOOKS LIKE EVERYTHING I EVER DREAMED ABOUT AND DOODLED IN THE MARGINS OF MY NOTEBOOKS. ITS SO AWESOME I BASICALLY JUST HAD A STROKE.

So, its ANOTHER game that is basically art + game mechanics and NO STORY. Arg.

Don't you mean co-founded? Remember Jark!

Isn't this essentially google glass? Except cool?

I love how the mean center of population is also really close to the geographic center. I wonder if its going to stay there, or just keep going. Seems like Manifest Destiny playing out long after that particular myth has ended.

Nope. Nope that sounds awful. I literally cannot believe it. In fact I refuse. More to the point, I CANNOT believe that this much information has leaked this early in the filming process. Its a FALSE FLAAAAAG GODDAMMIT.

*Is secretly glad MA isn't on the map*

Larry Niven was the first author I remember reading on my own - specifically the Neutron Star collection - and as I got into it, I realized how intricately the author had planned out the future of humanity. We start out in generation ships with fusion drives, and end up with a Multi-planet empire held together by FTL.…

"We were doing this for giggles and pizza money, and we overshot."

First of all, let me say I much I absolutely love the conceit of changing the setting of your series from one that is bound to the solar systems into one that allows FTL travel. That seems to be a decision that authors in SF make very rarely (the one example I can think of is Niven's Known Space series of books and…

Alternative formulations of pykrete can use recycled newspaper and other post-consumer paper products. Also, I'm aware that resurfacing the pole wouldn't solve the issue, but I feel strongly as though some kind of geoengineering is going to be required as a stopgap before we can finally reduce our carbon emissions and…

we can grow new trees.... making new icecaps is a bit more of a pressing issue.

If this stuff is so awesome at resisting the melting, what would be the viability of essentially using pykrete to resurface the North Pole using artificial icebergs, thus solving climate change?

I mean, if we're going to start that argument, apparently the "Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir" comic is also New Canon, because its based on an un-produced Clone Wars episode.

Master of disguise, check.

io9 commenters: Anyone want to put together an Ocean's 11 style team of sympathetic criminals* so we can steal that poor creature? IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM. (A real museum)

I volunteer to die gruesomely by being dismembered by a Sith Lord. There would be a Wilhelm Scream involved.