Now, we have a group of people who are going to try to use this uninhabited world to bring resources back to earth. Sure they are evil corporation people but their actions will presumably end up helping the billions back in the future. And these are the bad guys?

never mind, meant to reply to another comment...ugh, why doesn't the gawker software include a "delete" option along with "edit"

Whoa, is that really from 1969? If so awesome...the guy's accent does sound kind of retro somehow, like a blue collar character from an old Twilight Zone ep. But maybe people of the future learned their accents by watching old datatapes!

If you look at the context Lederman was pretty obviously making a joke when he talked about wanting to name it the "Goddamn particle" (and even in this joke he didn't say that the publisher coined the alternate name "God particle"). His book was full of joking asides like that, and he immediately followed the comment…

It was devised by a Nobel-Prize-winning physicist, Leon Lederman, possibly just to sell his book by the same name or possibly because he thought it was funny/clever.

It's not trying to explain real physics, it's just a joke about how even a hypothetical pixellated world would contain a lot of weird mysteries. There are a few things that vaguely resemble real physics, but in the kind of silly bizarro way that the Alice in Wonderland poem You Are Old, Father William resembles the…

That was just a joke made by the physicists who came up with the name (though the name "God particle" was also something of a joke)—see my comment here.

No, that was just a joke by Leon Lederman, the physicist who came up with the name "God particle", a name which itself was coined as a sort of joking analogy to the Tower of Babel (Lederman isn't religious). Here is the part of Lederman's book The God Particle where he talks about it (and keep in mind Lederman has…

Pretty sure Lobos was aware of that and was trying to be funny.

That was just a joke by Leon Lederman, who came up with the name. But the name "God particle" itself was coined as a sort of joking analogy to the Tower of Babel (Lederman isn't religious). Here is the part of Lederman's book The God Particle where he talks about it (and keep in mind Lederman has kind of a reputation…

The accelerator isn't just to find Higgs, they expect to likely find other new particles that could clue us in to aspects of fundamental physics beyond the "Standard Model" we already have. Do you define "advancing the human race" only in terms of practical technologies, not a better understanding of how the universe…

Gotcha, I misunderstood. The writers clearly have a lot to learn about scripting a half-decent Stock Villain.

It's not very clever sarcasm, but your comment "Coming from a man who obviously doesn't really care for his father's feelings" seemed to mean you didn't recognize he was being sarcastic in the first place. It's just another cheesily-written villainous line, but not really any odder than his other other cheesy…

I don't think it's that they're putting the goal of keeping the environment unspoiled ahead of the suffering of people—rather, I think it's that they are concerned with the long-term survival of human civilization. Strip-mining the prehistoric Earth to bring back supplies to their ruined Earth would not be a…

The idea should be to rip a completely new hole in time-space.

Sarcasm, dude! His tone was contemptuous so he clearly wasn't giving her serious instructions, he might as well have said "don't tell him that, you'll hurt his pwecious widdle feelings".

(and for comparison, here's the colored pencil image on the "normal color vision" setting so they can be seen at the same scale)

That same site has a simulator here which includes a "deuteranomaly" setting—I assume there are degrees of deuteranomaly though, do you see a noticeable change when you switch from "Normal Color Vision" to "Green-Weak/Deuteranomaly"? I also uploaded the pencil image to the simulator, at left is what it was converted…

Actually looks like I was wrong, apparently the ape in the main image is Cinder the chimp, and according to this article she was hairless due to "alopecia universalis".

I'd guess it's a bonobo, not a chimp—I've seen various pictures of old Bonobos where they have very little hair, look at some of the ones in this gallery, like this one. This page suggests it can sometimes be due to overgrooming—all their hair gets pulled out! Don't know why this would often be the case with bonobos…