Elon Musk is not a human being. He's a space alien who crash landed in Africa in the early 90s. Since then he's been following a logical path to developing the technologies to get himself home.

"A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly…

Guess we can all expect a patent suit against the entire leather industry from a patent holding company working for the estate of Thag Simmons

If Prometheus has taught us anything, the thing that a Blade Runner sequel shouldn't include is Ridley Scott. That would come in second place behind not having a Blade Runner sequel at all, which would seem the most sensible thing. If Scott's all fired up to do some more Dick, the world could use some Man in the High…

Her body dimensions make a little more sense in the lower gravity. Perhaps she was Martian all along...

While we're on the subject, if you have the technology for interstellar travel, can we all admit the use of sentient "slaves" is nonsensical? If you can wield that much power of the fundamental laws of nature, having people do work is silly and a waste of the only scarce resource around. (Exceptions for sexual or…

That's a great story, but I have to think it's not totally true. NASA wanted much smaller wings, something closer to the lifting body concept you can see on the DreamChaser. The Air Force made them accept the wider wings that would've allowed the Air Force to launch safely to a polar orbit from Vandenberg.

Buran doesn't really belong there. Sure they copied the concept, but the actual spacecraft was very different, perhaps even better, than the shuttle.

Unt Lik, the sword of Oderus Urungus

Understandable why these are on io9, as they look like some alien parasite is feeding off of the women wearing the dresses.