Don’t get me wrong, this type of thing was creeping in even in the TNG films. Nemesis had a Jeep and First Contact, as good as it was, really is just a dumb action movie with no depth.

It’s painful to watch the Trek movies sacrifice everything that makes Star Trek great to become another generic action franchise.

You’re looking at it the wrong way. Television isn’t eating that talent. Most of said talent are people who were squeezed out of the film industry by the mega blockbuster trend (which has pretty much killed the mid budget genre that most critically acclaimed classics, especially in the 90s, came from). Television was…

What the actual fuck? That's... Just awful. :(

I think it’s been as established as it could be without being explicit the type of relationship Pearl and Rose had:

It’s one reason I’m super disappointed with most all of the skeptic, atheist, and other non-religious movements out there. They’re so singularly focused on religion and woo as the root of all problems that they rarely (if ever) look deeper at both the psychological and sociological processes which empower and sustain…

I (obviously) can only speak for myself. For my part, though, it’s meant as a reassurance that I’m still ‘there’ and haven’t just checked out, emotionally, after... Everything.

The article actually says that. The only good answer is just that workers need to suck it up and not complain when covering for sick coworkers. You can't shame the sick into working and bringing in temps just spreads the infection further.

You know the article actually said that the best strategy isn’t making sick people come to work (it explicitly says NOT to do that), it’s making do with your existing staff and foregoing replacements, which, to me seems utterly logical, especially if you're trying to limit disease vectors.

That showed up unannounced in my mailbox. Damndest thing is that it’s not a paper catalog. It's like some kind of metal...

It’d be hard to go wrong with iZombie. I’ve had zombie fatigue for a while, now, but I find I generally enjoy iZombie. It’s an interesting take on the genre and actually uses its central conceit in cool ways, both good and shockingly evil (that’s about as spoiler free as I can make that summary)

While there are some omissions here i find curious (seriously, no Nancy Kress?!?) a truly comprehensive volume would have easily topped a million words and just been unwieldy as an actual book.

I wasn't arguing that as the case. Only that greater pressure differentials increase the rate of potential out gassing. That's trivial to demonstrate (order a Diet Coke on your next plane ride). That's basic pressure physics, no space time magic required.

I feel I should mention, though, that you are neglecting one aspect of vacuum which makes all of these examples unrealistic: The pressure differential will cause rapid outgassing (primarily through the lungs). Yes, holding our breath is bad because stuff will rupture, but even if we tried to ‘pregame’ by…

Forgive me if someone mentioned this already, but there was a ‘real’ example in Farscape played far more straight: “Look at the Princess: Part II”, John does the Vacuum Jump from a Transport pod, and, while they do overplay the ‘space is cold’ thing a bit, it wasn’t debilitating, and he was able to pull it together to…

Because the Universe is expanding, and one of the main ways one can cool off a material is to expand it (conversely, one can heat matter by compressing it, hence why the core of the Earth is thousands of degrees.

Sadly, there’s no happy ending for this.

“Neither of these reasons for their clash seems quite as compelling, on the face of it, as the setup in The Dark Knight Returns, where Superman is kind of a government stooge and Batman is kind of off the rails. (That way, both of these men are a little compromised.)“

While this is definitely true, it seems hard to…

I’m honestly a little disappointed if it turns out to be true that this is the actual inventor of BitCoin. I rather liked the mystique of a Japanese-sounding academic as opposed to a right-wing Libertarian crank who desperately wants to show off how clever they are to the Internet while pretending not to care.

That…

People aren’t seriously still mining Bitcoin, are they? I thought that had passed the point of viability a couple of years ago and that you would spend more money in electricity than you would ever generate in Bitcoin (even with a specialty rig) unless it massively appreciated again?