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I don't understand the premise. Given that video games and CGI render at 60fps, surely filming live action at 48fps would give a more uniform look that filming at 24fps?

Do you think they shot it twice, with two cameras, one running at 48fps and the other at 24fps? Really?

Our radio transmissions are switching to compressed digital, which is hard to distinguish from noise, and increasingly going to cable or being directed downwards rather than outwards. Almost anything we broadcast into space is wastage because there are no paying subscribers out there. A rational society will seek to…

It's two filters. The first step is from single-celled prokaryotes to eukaryotes. (The latter are still single-celled, but have more complex structure, eg a nucleus.) That took 1.8 billion years. Going from eukaryotes to multi-cellular life is a second step, that took another 0.7 billion years.

The Avengers Assemble.

"Unlikely" doesn't really work, because we have a biased sample.

"Given the intense timeframes involved" - Really? Are you sure you don't mean "immense"? #corrections

I gather in this particular incident the weapons were "borrowed" from the chap's parent. I doubt evaluating the parent's mental state would have helped.

It's fun.

It's as real as gravity. Both are sometimes called pseudo-forces, because they are proportional to inertial mass, which suggests they are manifestations of inertia.

The way I read Tolkien, Faramir was tempted, but he overcame it within moments. ( (When the ring is revealed at the end of chapter V, he stands up, and I don't think he knows what he is going to do until he sits down again.) He wasn't unique in this: Aragorn resisted too, for example, and I have no problem saying they…

In the UK it was widely opened to the general public in 1992. Dial-up access cost £10 a month. See, for example, http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/even-a-millionaire-has-his-demons-1324127.html.

I've recently become interested in Intermittent Fasting, which claims numerous health benefits. I suspect a lot of those benefits actually come from the weight loss - that being even a little bit overweight is surprisingly bad for long-term health. I suspect much of the remaining benefits come from abstinence. The…

The Internet is older than that. 1992 is when Demon Internet started in the UK, and it was being used by ordinary nerds before that. (Mostly for porn, as I recall.)

Me, too. And that in turn was based on Skinner rats dying from self-neglect in the 1950's, which was a real thing.

It's a suspension of disbelief thing. The same character is played by different actors, and strict continuity is not the highest priority of the makers.

One of the things I like about Quantum was the chilling way the bad guys treat women. Especially the receptionist in the hotel at the end. It had a darkness and affect that the other films lacked.

Primer does a good job of depicting science at the other end. It has 4 friends working more or less on their kitchen tables, trying to raise money by building some commercial circuit boards, in order to fund development of some kind of lifting device that exploits an obscure quantum effect. And what they actually…

I found him an annoying interviewer, because he usually made a point of showing that he knew about the subject too. He wasn't content to just let the interviewee shine.