Doing the minimum?

I agree that too few countries are doing too little, but I don’t think the U.S. can do it, especially not alone. It’s not a great situation but the Obama administration’s strategy is the only tenable role we can play IMO. Turkey especially needs to pull their shit together (seems like they finally are, but there is…

As long as we’re being pretentious twats with passive-aggressive internet bullshit like “To the English-speaking population...” to the population with basic reading comprehension, the comparison being made is to his reputation and rating as a player, i.e. “People say he’s one of the greatest, but he was never that…

Marino played fewer games than Brett Favre and Peyton Manning.

He’s saying Dan Marino has a ruddy complexion, is an asshole, and is overrated as a player.

This. Most people (straw man, I know) would probably put Dan Marino on the Mt. Rushmore of QB’s, but he doesn’t really have any signature moments. He’s a compiler. He’s great because he was around forever, and I don’t debate that he was great, but he’s overrated.

This is probably dumb, but I’ll bite.

I told you I wasn’t going to bother to try to change your mind. You’ve descended into a siege mentality where everyone has to be fought, not talked with, because your opinion is the irrefutable word of God and nobody else could possibly have a fraction of a point. I’m not playing a part in that. So stop fishing for a…

How much do they really travel in outer space? They certainly deal with threats from space (Galactus, Silver Surfer, Skrulls, Terminus) but they aren’t exactly spending that much time out there; they’re not like the X-Men with their Shi’ar buddies and the Starjammers. Many of their alien foes are encountered when they …

Nobody cares about Space Travel because we stopped doing it. Many of the same people who call space travel a waste of time and resources are the same people who keep the F-35 program going. The problem is that too many people (and maybe this is partially NASA’s fault) treated the Space race like a TV show or a…

Of course it doesn’t happen every day. I’m not an idiot. But the principle is sound, that- Oh, your mind is made up on this, why should I even bother?

“Nobody cares about SpaceX or Virgin Galactic “

GotG proved that there’s a shitload of custom for deliberately colourful, throwback space operas. FF can do that all day, every day.

There was a discussion on io9 yesterday about how lousy the movie is, and how this is yet-another swing-and-miss. A few of us in the commentariat kinda brainstormed into thinking the key isn’t to make the F4 hip and young in today’s era; it’s to go back to the hipster`50s/swingin’ 60s, Space Age-era and have the whole…

“Going into space isn’t cool.”

So why not just get Brad Bird to do the Fantastic Four?

Yeah, but nobody on Earth knows about them.

Yeah, I hear what you are saying, but going into space actually is cool, so it seems to me that the problem is that they haven’t figured out how to communicate that in a way that speaks to the general public yet. It seems like they should be able to figure that out.

But why does everybody have to be grounded in something that’s happening right now? What do the Guardians have to do with today’s world? Same would go for Thor. Ant-Man was originally a gee-whiz 60’s scientist, but for the film, they made it a heist movie related to military tech. So it’s a bit much to say that it’s…

You'd have to make it a period piece.