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We have been recycling this illustration since the nineteen fucking seventies. Even in a post specifically about the latest new and interesting design proposals for a space colony, you just have to dig up the old O'Neil Colony painting.

When I was a child, the local newspaper printed a double page spread "In Case Of An Emergency." It was full of useful advice, and for years it was taped to the inside of the kitchen cabinet, with my fathers added comment under the headline: "rush over and read this."

The only reason capitalism is "always efficient" is that its greatest inefficiency, profit taking, has been redefined as part of the plan.

No no no no no, it's not the lens flare. It must be your des-tun-eeeee!

How much of a blinkered techno-fetishist does a person have to be to even ask this question?

Mickey Mouse is the creepy mascot of a corporate behemoth that aspires to turn as much of our culture as possible into copyrighted, trademarked properties. On his better days, he's just plain dated. He hasn't been "cool" for at least 70 years, with or without a light saber.

This! This! A thousand times this! It actually annoyed me most when I was young enough to be the primary target of these things. I've been hardening myself to this ongoing insult since the early 70's.

worse than joyless, the script was totally predictable: throw popcorn at the screen and shout out the next plot twist levels of formulaic. they needed to bring the weird.

The problem with C&A was the painfully generic script. They could have gone serious, silly or camp and it would have worked. What they couldn't do was use a surreal genre mashup to tell a story with no surprises, but they did. I'll bet you there were retarded ten year olds in the audience rolling their eyes and…

Shae has been bucking so hard for a Darwin Award, I'm actually looking forward to her demise more than anyone's.

a rail gun shoots an aluminum slug accelerated between two electrified rails. current runs up one rail, through the slug, and down the other rail, propelling an electromagnet bullet down an electromagnet barrel.

well, not the gospels anyway. i'm pretty sure they know revelations backwards and forwards and can recite every unkind thing paul ever said about women...

you obviously don't remember the '70s. we were one step short of standardized labia sizes on women's pants before the fashions changed.

she didn't get any fake nipples because her real nipples were showing through so nicely

Yes, but has Jeremy Renner learned to use a bow yet?

The funny part is how this came up on io9's front page right next to a "sponsored" article from someone selling "Singularity" snake oil. The suggestion that people can enhance their intelligence by stimulating their nerve endings is at least a vaguely plausible hypothesis.

Didn't stop me from liking pretty much anything of his I've read. I just like this bit of trivia for context on Starship Troopers.

"Antitrust"? How early 20th century of you.

Heinlein was on track to be a career officer in the 1930's when he had to leave the service for medical reasons, just in time to miss out on all the action. He then went on to become an outspoken armchair warrior.