I remember reading an article back in a science magazine in the late ‘70s or so (I think it was the magazine called Science followed by the year, e.g. Science ‘78, Science ‘79, etc.) about how the US space shuttle was basically built by the lowest bidder, stripped to the bare minimum of functionality by one…

Both #1 and #5 (and possibly #2) can be averted if the cars have a manual-driving mode as an option. A drunk driver with impaired judgment could insist on driving manually, for the same reason drunk drivers today resist turning over their keys or taking a cab.

Can we please get past the myth that the dinosaurs were a failure? They thrived and dominated the planet for over 150 million years, fully a third of the entire history of life on land, and more than twice as long as mammals have been in ascendance. They weren't just one species, but thousands of species in many…

Now if only Marvel would follow suit with comics based on the Bill Bixby Hulk and the Nicholas Hammond Spider-Man...

Okay, but then how do you get down? Or survive if you miss the roof? Could a parachute deploy in only 20 stories?

I wondered after seeing this episode why airlines don't use the WilMA method, but it was pointed out that families seated together would have to board separately, and that would be problematical if parents were traveling with children. But maybe there's some compromise for seating families first, then individuals?

Reminds me of Persis Khambatta's reaction when her head was shaved for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, only with not quite so much crying.

Honestly, the part of that scene that bugged me was Vastra's line "I can store oxygen in my lungs," as if it were some special superpower of Silurians. Umm, isn't that what lungs are for?

I've really disliked the DCU movies that have come out since Bruce Timm stepped down as their producer, which seem to have embraced a very dark and violent and rather mindless direction. Son of Batman had some merits, but was way too bloody for me and was ruined by an ending that completely neutered the moral message…

A slightly weird classmate of mine in high school once opined that "elemenopy" (LMNOP) should be a word, but she didn't know what it might mean. I later decided it could mean the state of being in the middle of a sequence or process, analogously to how the actual word "abecedarian" means a beginner.

A bit of advice: We're geeks. If you're going to use an abbreviation like "WR," please take the time to specify that it means a football wide receiver, or a lot of us aren't going to know what you're talking about without a Google search. Just in general, an abbreviation should always be spelled out the first time.

Being "accurate" to things that were created in less racially and sexually egalitarian times is a misguided standard. Should a Tintin adaptation be "accurate" in recreating the horrible racism of that one infamous story? Those works were created in times when society as a whole didn't know better. Today, we should, so…

But why is it good marketing to give a movie a completely generic, forgettable title that says nothing about it? That's the point.

Why is Hollywood these days so insistent on replacing interesting, distinctive titles like "I'm.mortal," "All You Need is Kill," and "The True Meaning of Smekday" with dreadfully bland, generic, nondescriptive ones like (respectively) "In Time," "Edge of Tomorrow," and "Home"?

Surely Metropolis is as much a New York City surrogate as Gotham, so how could you leave off the most gratuitously excessive superhero-battle cataclysm in cinema history, MAN OF STEEL?

I don't recall "Darknight Damsel," but I know that back in the '60s they called her "the Dominoed Daredoll." I think we can safely say that she should avoid alliteration.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. The crime happened several days ago... and the police just left the bodies at the scene????? They didn't even cut down the corpse hanging from the chandelier?

That's not every live-action Batman, just every one who's appeared in color in a live-action feature film. Not included are Lewis Wilson from the '43 serial, Robert Lowery from the '49 serial, and Bruce Thomas, who played Batman in a series of OnStar commercials and in cameos on the Birds of Prey TV series.

Not to mention all the "programs" in the original TRON... odd that Kosinski forgot that one, when it was his choice to change that film's white costumes to black in the sequel.

John Carter wasn't ripping off Star Wars. It was adapting the novels that Star Wars imitated.