@Darren Boudreau: Honestly even though I think Hawking's wrong on this one, the use of his dire warning and the real fact that we did just send a message to the first star system other than our own known to have Earth-sized planets in the habitable range gives the trailer a lot more oomph.

@theblazeuk: I'd wager a few years at the longest, depending on technological advances allowing for more efficient setup and how much power you wanted to generate (you'd need to introduce more resistance to generate more power). Certainly well within a human lifetime in any case.

@theblazeuk: Well, first, neither planetary rotation or orbital revolution are perpetual. Interplanetary gas, dust, particulate matter, etc, will eventually both halt the planets' rotation and slow them enough to drop them into the sun, though neither is likely to happen before the sun itself dies.

@roughneck117: The dark-haired girl. Yes, she's drawn with a light skin-tone, but no more so than most anime characters, who are (usually) supposed to be Japanese and (usually) drawn by Japanese artists.

@palmer45: At 26, isn't he a bit old?

Since everybody liked my nomination of Thomas Dekker for Chase in the last Runaways topic, may I make another suggestion: Marieh Delfino as Gert.

@Chaoticevl: That was one of the weaker episodes.

@Dwayne Day: A miniseries called the Triangle did end up showing on SciFi in 2005. It was ok.

@akacrash: Or, y'know, stake him?

@Logan5: Well, I loved all those books (except Alvin the Whiz Kid, which I've never read) as a kid as well as Harry Potter, even though the ones you list were written well before I was born, and on the other hand I was no longer really a kid after the first few Potter books. I guess I was between generations of…

@Chip Skylark of Space: Well sure, but the point is we didn't make the discovery that Venus is a boiling hothouse instead of a lush jungle world in the last twenty years.

@evan7257: Yeah... the Venera program was 1961-1984, definitely not within the last twenty years.

Gantz is a weird, twisted, disturbing little anime (haven't read the manga). I couldn't get past a few episodes in; it just didn't sit well with me. I always felt slightly nauseous watching it.

@rsternbach: While it's true the universe, because of inflation, may be 100 billion or more lightyears across, our horizon is still the distance light can have traveled since the begining- so 12-15 billion lightyears away. We can't see anything farther than that regardless of future advances in telescope technology.

@n. alexander ligon: The original article says 5 billion, not 500, so I'm thinking typo.

@MifuneT: Must be a typo, the original article says 5 billion.

@DrGonzho: Worst thing about Public Enemies has to be the use of digital shaky-cam IN A PERIOD PIECE. Who exactly thought that was a valid artistic direction? Worst cinematography of the decade, IMO. At least there was a decent rationale for the shaky-cam in Cloverfield.

@lelandjs: Well, Panettiere isn't the WORST choice for Karolina I can imagine... not as bad as Shia Labeouf for Yorick in YtLM (fortunately Disturbia's director has left that project and taken Labeouf with him, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Jake Gyllenhaal), but yeah, even if she weren't wrong for the part,…

@33rd°: Hah, at first I interpreted that as you saying those were ALL Warren Ellis books.

How about Thomas Dekker as Chase?