It is necessary to wear a white lab coat because a black T-Shirt fails to evoke "I am a scientist".

Ridley Scott, one look at the visuals of Prometheus and you can tell why.

I think I have a can of Artichoke Hearts that are older.

You have to balance that with the highly inflated costs quoted in the first place. Google "Hollywood Accounting".

You can't be serious? It's the other way around. The real chemistry was between Harry and Hermione, she is smart and intellectual, therefore not a good match with Ron.

How hard can it be? Take said stinkbug, a little superglue, some paint, et voila! Alien bug.

That was a really clumsy attempt to sound technical! They tend to overlook the obvious, once you have the technology it is the technology that takes care of all the details, your main concern is now maintaining the hardware.

It not that much of an ask, science fiction isn't limited to our existing science, so there's plenty of scope for imagination. What is required is to make the imagined seem plausible and consistent.

So what do you think of Robert Pirsig's variation. (Pirsigian freewill?). There is no such thing as 'causality' as such, it is a convenient expression, not a definition of the process connecting two events.

This discussion should have included mention of Raymond Tallis book "Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity" where he directly refutes the same issue.

Can we have Katy Perry as Wonder Woman?