@ FrankN.Stein

Yes please. Neither alone would be right for either character but the chemistry between them would be perfect. Oh, and Alan Rickman as Lord Running Clam. That book was my introduction to Dick (pun sort of intended), and still one of my favorites.

There may not be a real hangover cure, but there's an excellent vaccine:

I must watch too much British television; I'm American and had no trouble following the dialogue, such as there was of it.

The article is exactly what I expected it to be based on the headline, but that's only because I already had some knowledge on the subject of organic molecules forming in space and how that kind of information ends up getting reported in the media. Others will not have this same background information.

I just don't feel like Hulu Plus offers enough benefit over free Hulu. Back catalogs of shows don't interest me when I can get most of them on Netflix, HD is nice but not worth $10 a month, and I don't feel that I should pay extra just for the privilege of watching the same content on a device that isn't a PC.

May I suggest Ed Asner? If they do CG for the characters later on, Asner could continue providing Perry's voice.

Um, these are definitely not 'our first snatches of dialogue'- there's been two trailers and an 11-minute feature before this that had lots of dialogue.

You actually liked the second and *shudder* the third seasons? I was three or four years younger than the characters were supposed to be while it was airing (I think I was thirteen when the first season started), and I hated much of the second and all of the third seasons.

The point of 120Hz TVs is for 3D; each eye gets alternating frames, 60 per second to each eye. 240Hz gives 120 frames per second to each eye. It's true the human eye can't distinguish action much faster than 30Hz or so, but faster refresh rates are healthier for your eyes. 60Hz is actually the bare minimum healthy…

Don't feel bad; a physicist would probably get what I'm talking about, but immediately point out how badly I'm abusing the terminology. Essentially, the Planck constant is the resolution of the universe; the Planck length is the smallest unit of length, not just that our current instruments can measure, but that it is…

I haven't had time to watch the short yet, can someone explain to me what was so horrifying about that poster? I just see what looks like a person floating in mid-air, and then random shots of LA.

Yes, even if it were a perfect vacuum and we ignored the virtual particles there would be those tiny effects that would slow you down over millions of years (or more). I doubt it's possible to get far enough away, even in say the Bootes void, for those to have no effect. Though I do wonder what would happen if you…

They should use something like the Pilgrim Observer design:

How could it be 2040? First, I don't think anyone's going to buy that Bamber's character is twenty. He has a son who looks about six. They've been there for ten years, and made it quite clear that his character was a respected leader from the start. I don't think he held that status as a ten-year-old. Does it actually…

Geez, I really don't get the mixed reactions here- I just watched the first episode and thought it was one of the best things I've seen on TV in quite some time. I felt like I was watching the first episode of BSG, Kings, or Lost. I thought the pacing was absolutely perfect, building up a huge amount of tension with…

Anybody capable of building radio telescopes capable of communicating over interstellar distances would have to have strong math skills, or so we assume. But yes, if there was an alien intelligence capable of sending signals to us that didn't have deep mathematical understanding, we probably wouldn't be able to…

I think even the most rabid singularitarians would have to agree that the accelerating pace of change will have to plateau eventually. That doesn't mean it's going to happen before we get AI/nanotech/immortality/etc (though it doesn't mean it won't, either, but we do have some speculation about when those limits might…

As someone writing a post-singularity novel, I can tell you that it can actually make things much harder. Most other SF- or fantasy for that matter- may require a writer to imagine a world much different from our own, but creating a post-singularity universe requires the writer to imagine humans much different than we…

'Hugely' is an adverb. I agree with your point, however; io9 writers should know better than to abuse adverbs when they've written articles on the subject. Although those were all written by Charlie, so I suppose I can cut Alasdair some slack.