God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs, God creates man, man creates dinosaurs, dinosaurs eat man, women inherit the earth.

That literally is a pancake. holy moley

he kinda looks like a dwarven king to me.

Thats the coolest part of this picture I think, but then again I'm a hopeless nerd :p

I wonder if birds will start learning to avoid these towers via natural selection and observing their fellow birds catching fire.

I'm replying to the 'clearly stargate needed more female villans', not specifically the 'egyptian' part.

it makes sense if you look at the plotlines.

Ok I think i understand a bit more where you're coming from. I would add though that these Iranians that I know:

Do you stargate? The Goa'ulds have no real gender, but assume the gender of their host.

Have you ever known an iranian? I doubt not. The ones that I know are planning on working in europe for a time, but many would rather not work in Iran.

I had the fortunate chance to meet an iranian who came to my university to study computer vision. I introduced her to yosemite and outdoors stuff, and found out she was incredibly smart, goal oriented, and had no love for islam or her government at all, although she did love her country. We need to remember that '…

Yeah I feel like many things in the Stargate Universe (not SGU, just the univ in general) could have been done a lot better had the team really brought in several sci-guys(or girls), some excellent writers, and more than a few historians from the outset and really hashed the storyline out from the getgo. They did a…

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wait.. why is it bad for us again?

Whipped Cream Rocket engines here we come!

To be fair, plasma shields do exist. They're just a little different than 'bubbles' portrayed in scifi

Hence why I'm commenting on io9. lol. But personally at least, the draw to physically go and explore something using your senses, muscles, and brain to make sure you don't die while cataloging unknown cultures, tasting completely unheard of foods, navigating across unknown mountain ranges with never before seen…

Java was also my first language. I learned it in the process of developing a minecraft plugin! :D

I suppose even the explorers of old met people who had inhabited the land for a long time. But, I'll never get the same experience as Lewis and Clarke did when they set off for lands they knew very little about.

Still waiting for when I can see it with my own eyes.