Good point, and now that I go back and look at screencaps, I see they even had their helmets off while fighting on the drill platform, so it couldn't have even been too high in the upper atmosphere. I guess an alternate rationalization is that in the 23rd century they can bat away meteors and other falling objects…

Yeah, probably would have burned up in the atmosphere.

Human memory can go wrong very easily, even (or especially) in the case of memories of dramatic events, do you remember specifically who the girl was? If so I wonder if she would remember it too if you asked her about it today. And if you don't, well, that would be a reason to think you might have turned a story you…

That's definitely an old urban legend, look here and here and here for example.

Consider that there may be some connection between Frank's image and the subject of this post...

Yes, but add in Omar Sharif and a host of other characters from our universe, and yes, it is more unlikely.

And lets not forget that the Crusades were started to prevent further Islamic invasion of Europe. France and Spain already had lost battles on their own turf.

Bin Laden's existence is no more unlikely than any other fictional character the author might invent—and in a branching quantum multiverse, any possible combination of marriages/couplings should happen in some branches, including all the ones needed to lead to Osama Bin Laden in a universe whose history is otherwise…

It would probably be more feasible to do it that way, but I would actually think dream sounds, like dream visuals, are more vivid than what most people experience when just concentrating while awake.

Next step, try this out on someone dreaming (preferably one who dreams with a lot of dialogue!) and see if anything recognizable comes out...

"The Watchmen ain't no Moby Dick."

I think there's actually kind of a big difference between reinventing some existing characters and putting them in a story with a pretty different tone/setting (like Farmer's book above, or Moore's own League of Extraordinary Gentleman) and just creating a straight sequel/prequel that's meant to be as continuous as…

Watchmen may be as great a work of art as Moby Dick, but sternly declaring that to the NY Times just makes you look like an egomaniac.

I don't have the photoshop talents to do it myself, but I think this Liefeld cover could pretty easily be transformed into a good "Liefeld's Watchmen" image...get rid of the lines and bumps on the face of the upper right blue guy and you have Dr. Manhattan, put a few spots on the metal mask of the guy below and you…

I guess you missed the fact that the original story was meant to be a project for DC's then-newly acquired Charlton characters?

Yes I have read and seen full interviews with him regarding both DC titles and his other works.

But Nemo and Quatermain already had multiple stories about different and basically unrelated adventures they had. Plus the League of Extraordinary Gentleman isn't really like a straight sequel or prequel set in the same world as the original story, it's more like a strange what-if scenario imagining if all these…

Like I said in reply to a different commenter, I don't think he intended to compare Watchmen to Moby Dick in terms of depth or literary importance or whatever, but rather "I think he was just using an analogy to illustrate the stupidity of making a cash-grabbing prequel to a story that's complete on its own terms, and…

He's been nothing but a bitch his whole career.

But Nemo and Quatermain already had multiple stories about different and basically unrelated adventures they had. Plus the League of Extraordinary Gentleman isn't really like a straight sequel or prequel set in the same world as the original story, it's more like a strange what-if scenario imagining if all these…