Yeah, if it had been him sitting there talking to the camera his delivery would have been pretty dry and uninteresting. Make him a muppet and everything is perfect.

Nah, you can still go to mythology for the furry fetish. Have a look at Egyptian, Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, and Native American traditions. Nothing is really new, though we do like to flatter ourselves.

You could do a video on proper tempura... Nothing quite like tempura broccoli and tempura sweet potato (in good ways)!

I had never felt any kind of entitlement toward the body of a woman until a few years ago. It was equal parts terrifying and exhilarating. Before that, I’d have agreed with most of what you’re saying. After that, I realize that just because you’ve never felt some way before doesn’t mean you never WILL. I’ve certainly…

There’s also no reason to believe that reactor-based fusion power will be as scalable, efficient, or cost effective as a solar collection aray.

No, that red shelf is definitely not on the real wall. The real wall is the thing with the Grecian pillars, and it’s several feet back from the wall the shelf is mounted on.

Seems pretty clear that if any of that is part of the youtuber’s setpiece, all of it is.

I’ve never seen anyone make that argument before. Mind elaborating on your base assumptions and reasoning?

Interesting that nobody is mentioning a certain hunk of junk Corellian YT-class freighter...

Seems like a two-stage craft with an orbiter and a lander is likely. Depending on where they put down (likely relatively close to the terminator, like the Apollo missions), a standard orbit would give them a good amount of time every orbit to communicate via the orbiter because it would have a pretty generous window…

Yes, but it’s adding onto an already dire situation and it gets us that much closer to the massive and rapid release of all that methane in the arctic permafrost. Which absolutely WILL have a massive effect on climate change.

“With one eye on the past, I walk backward into the future.”

Yeah, methane doesn’t stay in the atmosphere as long as CO2. But it’s much more powerful in the short term, and one of the real dangers is methane trapped by permafrost being released. There is a LOT of sequestered carbon under all that frozen terrain, and it’s already starting to be released (those mysterious…

Well damn, I was reading the EDF’s counter as being in pounds of CO2. Thanks for pointing that out.

It’s a pretty standard way of dealing with leaking methane. There was even an article about it somewhere on the Gawker sites recently.

Perhaps the fact that methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide? That it’s leaked an equivalent of 15,432,358,000 pounds of C02 in just three months? To be clear, globally we put around 10 billion (10,000,000) pounds of C02 into the air each year. So this three month leak has already done the…

Yeah, Brandon Sanderson is an organized literary demon. Pretty sure the slope on any one of his series would rival anything on this chart.

If they put Brandon Sanderson on that chart, he’d probably have a 50 or 60 degree grade. It’d basically be vertical if you composited all his publications...

Most of the answers to your questions involve her working with Simon Pegg, probably doing maintenance on his ships (including the one they were trying to get to before it blew up).

No, they had a real, remote controlled BB-8. Certain shots would need to be CGI, though— anything involving him navigating with his anchor wires, for example.