I happened to watch the episode for the first time this week. I thought it a terrible episode. Apart from anything else, they didn't attempt to address the question of whether hydrogen would be a safe agent if you didn't paint it with thermite, which for me is the main issue. They did show that the hydrogen made the…

I still haven't forgiven Amazon for buying Mobipocket and then killing it, offering me no means of converting the eBooks I've paid for to their format. Now I've upgraded my phone, I have several hundred pounds worth of eBooks I can't legally read on it. I hesitate to by further eBooks from Amazon, partly because I am…

Sayid wasn't planning to come back, and didn't expect to survive alone.

Sayid doesn't just torture Others. In the first series he and Jack torture Sawyer to get medical supplies out of him (which he doesn't have). I think they are clearly wrong, as shown by them going off in secret to do it, and Sayid going off on his own after to commit suicide out of remorse (he forgets about suicide…

My view is the opposite: I think Moffat planned the whole River story arc when he was about 12, and has been refining it ever since. Certainly in her first episode she mentions the Pandorica, the Byzantium, and the episode title mentions the Silence. It fits together as well as one could hope. He's not making it up as…

I agree with you. Although I do want to pick up on the word "enhanced". There seems to be an assumption that having more sensitive, or discriminating, sensors is a good thing. It seems to me that in the context of finding a mate, it's a bad thing. The more sensitive fish are failing to recognise potential mates as…

Although I agree, for me the point of the article is that reproductive isolation can happen without geographical isolation, if individuals fail to recognise each other's signals.

Vesta is a failed planet. Simples.

The early Hellraiser films were good. So was the first Candyman.

The first one is good. The second one expands the story and for that reason is my favourite, because I prefer SF to horror. People who prefer it the other way about, and don't want the mystery explored, don't like it so much. (Those people also prefer the first Alien film to the second.)

"Helping us digest food" - is it fair to say that they digest the food, and we digest them? Or do we consume their waste products, or their leavings? How does it work?

Did I miss something? I just finished the second book and I don't recall anyone important dying in it. (There are deaths that are hinted at and not seen, but at least some of those don't actually die.)

Game of Thrones for me. Unfortunately I'm in the UK and my cable company doesn't carry the relevant channel, so I won't be able to watch it unless it comes out on DVD.

Try Silent Hill. In that he's a devoted husband and father, who mostly serves for exposition. No swords.

Thanks. That gives me all the small images on a single page, and saves one click per image. Is there an easy way to get to all the full size images? With at most one click per image?

Alias has the same problem. Great first couple of series, but by the end it was clear they had no idea what it was all about.

Is there a more convenient way to view them all in full size than clicking Next, clicking Expand, clicking Close? 3 clicks per image is a bit clumsy.

The article used the phrase, "technologically advanced species", and gives several examples. It doesn't use the word "sentient". Humans match two of the examples: we build cities and beam messages into space.

Dolphins and whales aren't technically advanced. They don't mine asteroids like the article said.

There doesn't need to be competition for resources (which is problematic anyway). If it is merely possible for species from a different star system to destroy us, there is an argument for us to destroy them first, out of self-defence. Especially as they could be thinking the same way.