It always strikes me as absurd that people do this: you wouldn't touch a non-pregnant woman's baby...NOR would you reach into a carriage and start touching someone else's baby (like tickling their toes or something).....so how did touching a pregnant woman's belly become acceptable?

1981 Triffids had everything - goes to show how the recent "adaptation" thought it could use bad CGI to make up for good storytelling....or, that it could use bad CGI to replace well-down practical effects.

It is very cold, in space.

It's based on an already-popular book series and Ron Moore is riding its coattails as if to say "look at me! After five years of well-deserved shutouts after the BSG finale, when no network would trust me with an original series, I can at least still make an adaptation!"

This is his stepwise return to television. No…

A major reason the ridiculous "they're actually angels" stuff on Battlestar Galactica didn't work, is because ultimately they broke their own rules with retcons and such - by the writers' own admission they didn't even think they were actual angels until season 2 (even then it was just an idea Ron was toying with) -…

Arthur C. Clarke sold his kid's birthright for a few months' rent. Now it's worth billions, with a "B".

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"In the future, we're going to have artificial man-made satellites in orbit which will allow us to transmit radio waves across the planet in real time, allowing for instantaneous telephone calls across the globe, and even live television broadcasts from other continents...........what is this "copy-right" of which you…

If you're "born" into one of the factions, how can you possibly be allowed to switch into another one? You said her friend was born a Candor but switched to Dauntless....meanwhile, she starts out as an Abnegation but because she's a Divergent manages to fake the test and take Dauntless?

"Abseiling" is the British term. The proper, star-spangled American term is "Rappelling".

That was all about the movie's theme of perception though: is he *really* walking on water? Or is the pond just very shallow at this time of year?

Ron Moore explicitly said he wasn't in the podcast for that episode.....because he later said his whole plan (yeah right) was to blindly stumble forward with improv-style writing, not knowing how it all fit together - "like jazz" he said - and then to take that whole "mosaic" of ideas and at the end of the series…

The Comic Book Death and "surprise resurrection" of Starbuck on BSG

Not in terms of concept, but in terms of execution. I am referring specifically to her unforeshadowed death in "Maelstrom" and sudden reappearance at the end of the Season 3 finale - excluding (valid) opinions that Season 4 failed to explain it well…

The Balut really takes it....eating a god-damned chick still in the egg? We eat piglets but not fetal pigs. Somehow a chick in the shell seems even worse than a fetal pig boiled in its own shell.

As for the LIVE sushi, I think there are actual Noahide biblical laws against that (it's regarded as close to…

Multiple sources claim that Hakarl is possibly one of the worst smelling and tasting foods known to mankind. Which makes you wonder why Greenland makes it (starvation option?) I might try it once to see what the fuss is about - on the one hand shark isn't that disgusting, but I don't want to encourage shark…

I've heard it said that Horseshoe Crab is technically edible...in the sense that you can choke it down without giving yourself food poisoning. It's apparently awful. Keep in mind that a Horseshoe Crab is closer to the arachnids than it is to the crustaceans. I *wouldn't* eat this, due to my great respect for this…

1Megadeath = 1,000 deaths. Used when calculating nuclear warfare scenarios.

I was being serious; not sapient life, but say, worms or fish that are ammonia-based methane breathers?

Each new morn

How plausible is Ammonia-based Methane-breathing life on Titan?

What is this called?