We are definitely very guilty of assuming, even unconsciously, that the last 100 years or so are the ONLY time in history that something important might have happened.

I'm guessing Europa myself, but you never know, it could be hidden beneath the sands of Mars, right between Dejah Thoris' castle and the Prothean ruins... =)

From what I understand, there is still a bit of mystery surrounding the Sumerians though... =)

Yeah, I know. Not the best choice for an example... but it's the principle of the thing.

Okay, okay... so that wasn't the greatest example. I blame a lack of coffee. =)

Or, for that matter, it could have crashed into the ocean anytime between about 200,000 BCE and 1940 CE and, assuming it was not colossally huge, just about no one would have noticed. Or it could have gotten here, taken some snapshots and continued on its way pretty much anytime ever. Or, for that matter, it could…

That's how I understand it, yeah. It's pretty cool at first, but as time marches on, it gets somewhat more... depressing. =)

I would say, in that scenario, if you survive, this theory wins. The likelihood of anyone else living through that into your universe is infinitesimally small, so... yeah. If you're still alive after that, you can consider quantum immortality a reality.

Right, technically speaking the odds of any one of us seeing it are simultaneously 1 and 1 in a quadrillion. Because in a universe of infinite possibilities, one of those possibilities must be that everyone who read this article (indeed, everyone alive as of this moment) exists at the same time as the person who…

The way I see it, the problem with the quantum immortality test is this:

Totally agree. I think we'd see a lot higher quality if the baseline assumption for American TV stopped being "we'll run this until we get cancelled" and started along the lines of "let's tell a story from beginning to end."

No problem! =)

Yes. Most BBC seasons (or 'series') are somewhere between 5 and 10 hours in length, maximum. I think there are a few exceptions that might run to 12, but as far as I know you never see anything like the 20-24 episode things we get here.

Did you miss the "smartphones and tablets" part? That's like the opposite of grand. More like "we're hoping this will make a few grand".

A lot of these social games are, in fact, worse than nothing. Admittedly we don't have a lot of information about this title at this point, but looking at what kind of games are currently available on the smartphone/tablet, I don't really expect this to be anything but a Farmville/Mafia Wars-type money sink with a…

You're a member of a secret society, too, aren't you? I'm going to tell the Computer! (If only to distract from the fact that I am also a mutant and a member of a secret—wait, what? No, let go of me, I don't—)

This is not shiny. This is a gorram waste of a perfectly good IP license.

"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"

How about "just say 'no' to N2O"? That way it rhymes, and everyone knows that PSA slogans have to rhyme!

I may know where they got some inspiration for this. Just a theory, mind you.