Now I see why what the doctor did to stop it wasn't mentioned

So... what did the doctor do? that'd be a more interesting solution, wouldn't it?

The episode was awful, but it had the best one-liners in the season.

Yes, me too. I'd have been happier if they cut Betty Draper, or one of the gazillion generic publicists in the agency. OTOH they probably cut a couple of those too and I don't even remember them

I might be wrong again, but I think a slingshot is only good for turning around, not for acceleration

I was thinking it was far enough that you can't get there in any realistic time without FTL, but it's raechable at half c, which would mean only 1.25 times more weight. Still, we're talking about insane amounts of any kind of fuel

We're saying the same, I don't know who started it but there are a lot of comments saying "keeping it at LOWER pressure doesn't make sense, it should be higher"

There's a more likely conspiracy for you: the SETI people knew this was coming and turned the hype machine to max so that it looked like they were finding something important so they wouldn't get shut down. Not that I believe that's what happening, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were

says who? we're as likely to be sappy, small, weak and defenseless as to be top dog. And size doesn't really matter, it's not like after we find a way to travel light years away (if that's even allowed by Phyics, which it's not according to our current knowledge) we're going to be experiencing hand to hand combat by…

You mean in funding basic Physics research so that somebody in a couple generations can come up with something basic that maybe can send a probe there in another couple generations

how exactly is being less likely to have offspring a fitness advantage? BTW I know tons of animals are bi-sexual, but I don't know that there are exclusively homosexual individuals (it'd be an interesting point to raise when arguing with someone who is in the "it's antinatural!" field, and I find odd that I haven't…

Closeted characters can be interesting (I can't think of any in the books, but I can think of David (Dexter) in Six Feet Under, or Salvatore in Mad Men.

So if you throw, say, a rocket with some chemical, the rocket will break the glass and the building will just suck the chemical. That sounds really smart.

too bad they weren't in common use until recently, it'd be fun to have imperial units for those things:

Yeah, and waste oil like it's 1968

I loved Firefly, but the pilot (the one in the DVDs) left me cold

great list, I'd pick like 10 or 15 of those as "must have"

this one too

Well, something stuck. You wouldn't be so classy if they have told you you had to paint yourself and show as much leg as possible as soon as you were twelve, because "go get them!"

Ah, you have a concept of decency. Were you born with it? or did your education have something to do with it?