I'm actually pretty psyched for this... there hasn't really been an epic space fantasy/adventure since the original Star Wars trilogy. I'm pretty optimistic the director will deliver. In a sense it'd be pretty hard to fail.

I like the show, but it gets rather carried away with it's Ameri-philia sometimes. When characters say things as narcissistic, ignorant, insulting, and downright comical as "America's elections are the envy of the entire world" with a straight face, I have to wonder which planet Aaron Sorkin is living on.

I'll take that as a "no". Both of us knows I'm not a troll. Absolutely pathetic.

Er... what? The problem is said to be 200-years old. The solving of it is implied to be in the present. The only reason you knew it wasn't, and that to us the problem is in fact 300 years old, was because you already knew about the subject of the article. Put yourself in the shoes of somebody who reads the headline…

You really think you're in a position to condescend others after the embarrassing scene you made out of yourself today? Wow.

Why is the headline erroneously written in the present tense, as if this is an exciting new discovery?

Still pretty disingenuous. It's a hypothesis. It's either true or false. We don't know. Saying that "we may know" is therefore simply false and gives a false impression. We don't know. Nobody knows. The entire concept of "maybe knowing" something is inherently, and plainly, absurd. If you "maybe know" something, you…

I've read the post you made, and despite your claim to have "read the article twice", it clearly shows a total lack of understanding of the entire point of this experiment.

I see one short clip which doesn't even capture the eclipse. Where's the "astounding footage"?

So what you're telling us is that this io9 article made a ridiculous error?

I think this probably just happened, but whatever.

I never said psychology isn't a science. What are you talking about?

Uh... you were the one who brought up why he was famous. That's what I was responded to. Now you're saying people don't know anything about him other than his 'mystery'..? Try to make a consistent point, please...

He was the guy who first noticed the pattern and stated the conjecture, wasn't he..? To me as a mathematician, as well, I think, to lay people, that's as important a piece of his story as his attempted proof.

The guy basically invented the field; give him some credit. There's really nothing wrong with Pascal's wager mathematically. It's just the real-world status of his premisses which was on shaky ground.

Just a heads up: you come across as insufferable, condescending, arrogant, pedantic, and to top it all, hypocritical, having made plenty of grammar and spelling errors yourself. My heart goes out to fiona for having to put up with you. Seriously, why do you think your behaviour is appropriate?

Be that as it may, the stereotype is true.

I don't understand this article. Different dendrites of a given neuron are connected to various different neurons. Why is it surprising that some dendrites of the neuron were firing when others were not? Surely this is what you'd expect... they're receiving different inputs. I don't see what this has to do with the…

Then you're an idiot. You think, in this day and age, that white people, and only white people, have no experience of being colonized? If you were trying to sound enlightened, you failed utterly. All you achieved was sounding like a stupid, inflammatory bigot.

I'm rarely impressed by actors, but The Hunger Games was the first I'd seen of Jennifer, and she really engaged me. She's probably the main reason I'd see this. The last two books didn't really approach the quality of the first, but they're the kind of thing that a competent writer can turn into a compelling movie, so…