As far as the Predators go, I've always assumed that what we're seeing in all of the movies is essentially sport, right? And they tend to be sportsmanlike. Thus lack of armor, certain weapons, rules on who is a fair target, etc...

I was going to chime on Niven's Kzinti. Personally I preferred Lisa A. Free's illustrations of them from Chaosium's long out of print Ringworld tabletop RPG. I think she drew them the most accurately.

I'd so love a Man-Kzin Wars tv show.

Remember, the entire Klingon race evolved for the purpose of being easily defeated to prove the severity of a given situation. It's an odd evolutionary niche, but they've really managed to find some long term successes.

Problem with this premise from #2: "same matter can't occupy the same space."

Silicate is more likely cause of a red flash from I've read since I first posted. Iron tends to make a yellow color. The one I saw was probably nickel not copper which makes more sense since its a common meteorite mineral.

Hmm growing up in ohio early in the morning waiting for the school bus I saw meteorite end in a green flash. Copper or barium makes green. Im guess there are more copper or iron meteors. What would make a red one?

Not gonna lie...I kinda hate you a little bit right now. :P

I was at a dark sky site in central Ohio owned by our local astronomy club, and all of us were set up facing the direction of the fireball. The only person facing away saw the glow on our faces and had time enough to turn around and observe most of the duration of the event.

It was amazing. Greenish yellow elements in…

Just musing on how we approve some forms of risky, expensive, self-harming behavior and condemn others.

Implied no such thing. Saying that how we frame stories about people spending money to harm themselves influences our judgement of those stories.

Bit whiney, to be honest. Don't get me wrong, the prequels are not that great, but nothing grates on my nerves like that indignant "Wah! Star Wars should be just like this!" attitude of fans in their late thirties and early forties.

You'd think more people would have gotten it, but unfortunately I think my faked level of ignorance about "I Am Legend" is probably too close to the normal level of ignorance. *Le sigh*

Don't forget the film adaptation of Starship Troopers. It's really subtle, but the film points out that humans are the aggressors and essentially the bad guys (especially at the end, with the brain bug captured, and everyone in their Nazi SS uniforms cheering that it's afraid).

Throughout the film, humans:
1) Build a…

Who would the bigger monsters be...the Reavers, or the people who made them...?

I've got the Original Trilogy bonus Discs that were packed in with the "Special Edition" a while back. I've ripped them to my hard drive, put them on a USB stick, and hidden it inside of an outlet box in my house. They will continue to exist. Lucas will never be able to find them because I'll never reveal the location…

I have the VHS tapes!

I greatly appreciate the opening point explaining the differences between poisonous and venomous.

Every time I hear the phrase "poisonous snake" my eye involuntarily twitches.

If you bite it and you die; it's poisonous.
If it bites you and you die; it's venomous.

It sounds nit-picky but there really is a big difference in…

No more battery farmed stedi-cams!