Imagine the things humans might come to acheive after 400 million years of evolution. We're currently at:

Anyone keeping a chimp as a pet or, we've all seen this- a Trusted Intelligent Companion in a Tuxedo -we all know the eventual outcome. They are monstrously strong and probably not amenable to formal wear.

This will probably fall into Danny Elfman's lap so Johnny Depp can Quirk around in a velvety bathrobe and Helena Bonham carter can ruin Death and there will be xylophones.

killing off main characters is the best thing a writer can do for their creativity, forcing them to build other elements. Plus, you're posting online comments about it, which is the second best reason for doing it.

furry white cat in lap: check

So the virus is naturally occurring and now taking advantage of the lack of sanitation, etc. Just wondering if there could have be some form of polio spread through the August rocket attacks.

Bob: not much so far exeept to show how in Walker Times, our human addictions will continue to affect survival of The Group. I really hope we don't have to see his Heroic Cold Turkey sweat-it-out scene but I am rooting for Bob. "For when it gets quiet."

one design for both space and marine environments?

Here's another international organization dedicated to technical achievements enabling interstellar spaceflight. Did io9 publish this a few months back?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus_In…

in the book version of World War Z, our soldiers wore these in the doomed Battle for Yonkers, complete with uplinked comms. As situational awareness and complete tactical failure overloaded the troops, the battle was lost complete with full audio broadcast: " Hey I shot it and it's still coming! Aggghhhh" but a…

What if Max Brooks is wrong. What if the virus affected all vertebrates? Insert "game over" gif.

Was it really? They probably had a cart set up as soon as the blasting dust settled.

Just can't help but thinking that the shape is intended by its builders. Channeled walls of 1200 kph winds keeping something out... or in.

Jesse , for the entire series, was just used and abused. The whole series is a kind of torture porn, watching the protagonist degenerate into a cold survivor while dragging everyone around him down to hell. And (sometimes) rooting for him I have no what will happen next week, but it will be intense.

only if Mc G directs.

I guess this is a 'movie' but why is this on io9?

I worked a demanding rotating shift that ended 5 years ago. Impossible to adjust to, impossible to "avoid daylight" when you clock out at 8am. Even though I am a total night owl, it led to depression till I found a new daytime job. My wake pattern would love a permanent 6pm- 2am shift but having a relationship and…

the much-lauded mantis shrimp: some species see in tri-nocular vision in a spectrum of thosands of colors, some species using coloration only visible to their eyes for courtship/territorial behavior. Baddass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_sh…

Word. Loved The City and the City. The Scar could be a CG mess but if HBO got their hands on it, I'd expect good things

Dream stealers: the giant moths from Perdido St. Station