True, the combination of abilities Batman has probably wouldn't be achievable...sometimes prodigies who start young can excel in multiple fields, but mastering multiple martial arts *and* becoming a brilliant scientist *and* the greatest detective in the world is pretty hard to imagine any human doing by age 40, even…

Yeah, Batman's abilities are "beyond the normal".

But the line isn't so clear, since you have "superheroes" like Batman whose abilities are supposed to just be on the high end of the human range. If Batman is a superhero, couldn't you make a case for Sherlock Holmes or Dr. House? I think it has more to do with the degree to which the story draws on the qualities of…

Well, would you define "hero" just in terms of the nobility of motives and self-sacrifice involved, or does it also involve some degree of special abilities (whether fantastic like superheroes or just unusual-for-humans like Lisbeth or Sherlock Holmes?) If it's just a question of motives I think a crime scene…

I'm probably misremembering the silver surfer, I read some collections a while ago and I had thought most of his early adventures were about fighting beings that were standing in the way of his getting back to his wife and home planet, but looking at plot summaries I think I'm wrong. And I've only read a few things…

I wouldn't expect a journalist to protect the U.S.'s image. I would expect them to protect its iterests...especially if lives are on the line. Manning did not do that.

I don't think that's necessarily true of all traditional comic book superheroes. Some are motivated more by vengeance or anger like Ghost Rider or The Spectre or The Hulk, and there are also those who fight against "villains" but for reasons that don't have much to do with helping humanity, like The Silver Surfer or Sw…

I don't think it's normal practice to do that with British spellings in U.S. news sources though. Wikipedia says:

Just a spelling thing, but there's no need for that "[sic]" after "scepticism"—that's the right British spelling, and presumably it's right in New Zealand too.

Would go nicely with some finger tentacles on the other hand, and perhaps even a tentacle mustache.

I would expect a journalist to be responsible and carefully separate the embarrassing information from the info that would cause harm to U.S. interests.

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Where'd you get the info about it taking place in an alternate universe where the asteroid never hit? It doesn't seem to say that in either of the articles in the links.

Where are you getting that? 6 looked older than 5, 7 looked older than 6, and 9 looked older than 8.

So, you think a journalist who found out about this kind of stuff through legal means would deserve the death penalty for treason too? Notice that the section on treason in the Constitution only talks about the effects of actions, not whether someone abused their position in order to perform the actions—Manning…

Treason: noun \trē-zen\

Maybe it's just me but that picture makes me think Reznor is flying his own TARDIS

I'm not talking about another set of humans evolving naturally on that planet millions of years in the future, I'm talking about the human society already there, i.e. Terra Nova. As long as the environment isn't strip mined by evil guys from the original Earth they came from, there's a chance Terra Nova will develop…

The link to "The Spittoon" at the bottom of the post itself contains a link to the page at 23andMe, but you have to sign up with a username first

Wait, are you sure enough of the geography of Terra Nova to be sure the crater was exactly at the location of the probe? Both the probe and its rock column were totally disintegrated or did you see some wreckage?