" Your original comment seemed not to be objecting to the rudeness but seemed to have sort of a sexist suggestion of "that's something a girl would say, you need to be more of man""

No, hmm is okay, Um... is snarky.

"the slightly rude "you just said something stupid and I am expressing mock-disbelief" meaning "

"What I believe is that it may be possible to create a *copy* of a human mind that runs in a computer. "

I just think, if a person is putting a reasonable mount of effort into their written words, that it might bear some similarity to their spoken words. And I think, generally speaking, that a woman can get away with sounding younger and cuter than a man can, without sounding as silly. But specifically I'm talking about…

"No-one visited the Moon until the Apollo landings, but that doesn't mean that the engineers designing the Saturn V were engaging in silly mysticism, or that the thought of men walking on the moon was just baseless wishful thinking up until the very moment when Neil Armstrong did his thing."

I believe that you believe you've seen a ghost and experienced paranormal stuff, but it's my opinion that you are mistaken, and believe these things largely because you want to believe in them, and that's not a great reason to believe in something. I think the world of facts is way more interesting than the world of…

Yes, that was nice. She's a very very pretty girl. But I'm on team Joan.

The iPhone 7 will have a SIRI that's indistinguishable from a human, but that phone will not be a human.

"I think most sci-fi fans would understand "uploading" as the process of basically creating a copy of one's mind in the form of a computer program, rather than some mystical process wherein your soul possesses a computer."

It would not have to be common in order for there to be millions of civilizations that do it. BIG Universe.

I criticize grown up men for typing "Um," at the beginning of posts. Do you really talk like a snotty high school girl?

"...an advanced civilization would use all the power produced by their sun to fuel their massive computational projects, which could include uploading all of their consciousness into a digital substrate..."

There's no assumption about ALL alien life, and a civilization wouldn't have to have much in common with us at all to want to use all the light energy of their star.

They wouldn't all be. Some would be less advanced, some more, some the same. It's a big, old Universe, REALLY big, so there would be lots of each of those categories. Lots of possibilities.

This is a really intriguing article, but I think the author could have condensed the parts about who is ignorant of real sword-fighting techniques and why they're ignorant, and spent more time talking about the real techniques, which look way more interesting. Great subject though, I'd love to see some production,…

It's a great quote.

But age-wise he can't come back, because Cap will be frozen when he's that age.

The Mad Men guy (John Slattery) is so much fun. In Iron Man he was doing an industrial promo video, and I think he was trying to seem vintage classroom newsreel, a little stiff. It was very short. The guy in Captain America did not look or sound the least bit interesting to me. For a cameo of a guy who's Robert Downey…

Just caught it last night. My girlfriend said, "Wow." Not sure how she meant it. I said, "guess that's it for the nudity they warned us about." Because I was disappointed it wasn't Joan, even though I know it will never happen- partly because a lot of that awesome figure is padding these days.