That's a total misuse of Occam's razor—reality doesn't have preset goals like "make life on Earth" so it doesn't necessarily pursue them in the most "efficient" way (you might as well say "I don't believe dolphins had land-based ancestors, since it's a useless extra step to go from ocean to land back to the ocean").…

Correlation does not equal causation. This could as easily be interpreted that conditions during the late heavy bombardment were prohibitive to the formation of life.

This seems like it's just a question of one's choice of word-definitions, not a claim about reality that one can argue for or against in an objective way. Unless you're talking about some pre-existing definition of "human" that leaves some room for ambiguity about whether Neanderthals meet the definition (like a…

They weren't squidlings, they were spermatophores, structures in the male which hold sperm, and spurt them out once implanted in the female. So they need the female eggs to fertilize and create squidlings.

"We found sediment layers that are conducive to the chemical evolution from simple molecules to complex amino acids and it looks like cells came into being through the new molecules accumulating around mere bubbles, forming the first cell membranes."

Check wikipedia, he's alive, 72 yrs. old. He did some work on the murals in Prometheus apparently.

The study discussed here actually involved psilocybin mushrooms rather than LSD, but it sounds like it may be what you're thinking of. I wouldn't make the claims you're making though—it may show that the particular brain regions whose activity decreases are involved in our sense of self, but whether the "self" is or…

How come I can't reply to mr_kaizen's comment? Anyway, I just wanted to point out that imdb pages have info put in by fans as well, they are often inaccurate for upcoming movies (for example, there was a period of time when the Prometheus imdb page had Lance Henriksen listed in the cast, which was later confirmed to…

Like I said, the issue is probably price—I would imagine doing it with CG, though not cheap, is still cheaper than renting one of these planes for enough time to train the actors in zero-G stunt work and then shoot all the action sequences.

It's connected by the earlier sentence "This has always been the spiritual link between Anderson's work and that of, say, Dave Eggers." (Dave Eggers wrote the Where the Wild Things Are script, and as mentioned, the novelization)

Why is this under "Star Trek"? I realize it gets a brief mention, but shouldn't the main tag on a post be the main subject ("Threequels" in this case) rather than something that gets a peripheral mention?

I thought of that too, but the fight scenes do take place in fairly large sets that wouldn't fit on board an airplane, maybe you could shoot different individual bits on board the plane and then composite them together in a convincing way though...might end up being more expensive than just using CG, I dunno.

It got a pretty good review on Deadspin, so that's a hopeful sign...

In 2001 the characters moved pretty slowly and methodically in their suits though, it'd probably be a lot harder to compensate for the natural effects of gravity dragging on limbs with fast movements in fight scenes.

On the subject of villainous Disney characters appearing in Axis propaganda cartoons, here's a short cartoon made in Vichy France, featuring bootleg versions of Mickey, Donald and also Popeye...

According to this review at tor.com, it's not the same universe.

Well, what happens when robotics reaches the point where pretty much every step in the production of physical goods (except the original design plans) can be automated, and the manufacture of manufacturing robots is automated too? (so given the necessary materials and energy, one automated factory can build a copy of…

What do you mean "this"? The gallery doesn't show any monsters...was your post supposed to have an attached image?

Apparently Ron Miller's wife invented the Captain Judhika character in the 70s or earlier, the name rang a bell from the io9 post on 1970s cosplay (NSFW), and Ron Miller mentioned here that the first photo was Captain Judhika in costume.

Probably the fact that our brain has to fill in a lot of detail has something to do with it, but that doesn't fully explain why the effect only happens if the images are presented quickly. Maybe it has something to do with different parts of the process of seeing and recognizing a face happening at different speeds in…