Now that would be a show I could get behind. What could they call it? "Red Rockets" with backwards cyrillic "R"s?

Interesting to note that the Russians put a woman in space in 1963, but it wasn't until 1983 that the Americans did.

Unfortunately, it's probably going to be less "history of the space program" and more "living and loving in Mission Control", so Cocoa Beach would be evocative of that.

"Genre Show" can mean more than just Science Fiction. "Game of Thrones" is a genre show, as is "True Blood" and "Once Opon a Time", though none would be called science fiction. It's anything that's not a straight comedy, drama, procedural, etc. set in the "real world".

The Crystal Island looks like something right out of "Logan's Run".

I guess those are people who never got to play SimCity 2000.

For example, you can't fault the classic "...the shit's going to hit the fan!" joke in the original "Airplane"....

Weren't they bounty hunters?

Interesting - it's been years since I saw it so I'm going to have to revisit now. In my memory, the theme and score was appropriate a la his "Once Upon a Time in America" or "Fist Full of Dollars" or something like that, but memory is ephemeral....

Too young to remember? There were Kinko's in Los Angeles two years ago. How old IS io9's target audience?

Long gone now, but "The Caribbean Zone" in San Francisco had the Doobie Brothers' Martin 404 touring plane converted into a lounge inside, complete with video screens in the windows showing a loop of a jungle airstrip landing.

That's an Ennio Morricone score you're trashing!

Read the script last year - it was atrocious, but still better than Twilight.

Watchmen made $181 million worldwide on a $130 budget. opening weekend was $55 million. That's not the definition of tanked, that's a modest success. Americans are so narcissistic that if it's not lighting up box office fireworks in the US, it's considered a dud even though it's not.

Inversion therapy for spinal decompression has been popular since the 1960s/70s, and has roots going back to yoga poses dating to 3000BC. I don't think it's wacky 2015 science (although some do consider it wacky science in general). PS - it's Jaws 19, not 14 (clearly visible in the frame capture) and the robot gas…

Yes - my first thought was "This is a part of San Francisco history I had no idea about!"

Point Break!

Did I spot the Robots of Death standing in for the carpet pissers?

Lush's Rockstar soap smells like sweet tarts....

Now that Roscoe's is starting to sell their products in the supermarkets, there might be more than one chicken and waffles-flavored chip in your local market soon....Bliss!