Superman, as a symbol, is a projection of our idealized self. Thus, when I imagine an old superman, I imagine an elder statesman and teacher of the next generation who can still kick ass when he has to, instead of a bloated sorrowful wreck.

@whormongr: Sure. And injecting saline solution into your face or putting bone implants on your forehead also pose numerous medical and health problems, but people already do that anyway. Hell, right now people are injecting botulin into their faces to "smoothe" wrinkles via semi-paralysis.

Now let's look at this from a science-fictional point of view:

That's awful news.

And that's one of the many reasons why I love science: When data doesn't fit your hypothesis, it's not discouraging, it's exciting!

Must... resist... urge to add... terrible film... to netflix que!

@Briareosdx: Also, I gotta love the website. It's like "Yeah, this is the pinnacle of 90's web design, and yeah, those are spray painted nerf guns. Deal with it."

I have pondered it, and I have decided that I am in favor of "Spacesploitation" as a cinematic movement.

@comrade_leviathan: It's basically Straight-to-DVD Blade Runner. That's actually kind of awesome, but also kind of stupid.

@BoxOfScraps: You know, they'd make a nice couple...

@Cash907Censored: Camille was good, great even. But he wasn't the one who beat the stuffing out of Char's Sazabi, then gathered the together the combined mental power of the earth to focus it through his psycho-frame and stop an asteroid impact.

@ShinGetterPoPo: You'll thank me afterwards.

In the original Gundam series, there was actually a lot of very interesting technical progression during the 1-year war as both sides learned more about fighting under these conditions. My favorite examples are the Solar System and the RGM-79 GM.

For the folks debating space battle physics in the comments instead of getting on with the awesomeness of giant robots in space:

@Cash907Censored:

@cljohnston108: I'm not surprised. If one is going to delve into questions of the ineffibale, and ask about the limits of human understanding or capacity to understand, Lem is a good choice.

No.

Finally, the perfect double-feature with Black Dynamite!

I'd like to talk a bit about the ending of the book.

@wolvenhold: My problems were almost comedic. I felt bored by the constant hammering of just how weird I was supposed to think New Corbuzon was, and that was the first half of the book, where pretty much nothing else happened. Then my allegiances were accidentally shifted when the first group to actually DO something…