Indeed. Early lexicographers traced the phrase "Oh Hellz No" to some African Studies students writing fanfic at the University of Baghdad - Babylon campus. I'm surprised Google didn't tell you that...I thought it was well known.

Scorpion tries to convince frog or some swimmy creature to give it a lift across *name of body of water*. Swimmy creature says Oh Hellz No but eventually the scorpion convinces it. Halfway across the scorpion stings swimmy and they both drown. Just before they drown swimmy asks the scorpion why he did it, knowing…

Never. I am happy about the hotspot thing though.

Spot on. Whenever I watched S3 by myself I always had to fast forward through this scene!

My 120mm refractor just shipped yesterday- its my first real telescope! I can. not. wait!

Hellz yes. In July I make my yearly pilgrimage back home (CO) to see the fam- this year my brother and I are going to thru-hike at least 3/8 of the CO Trail. And then in December we are climbing Aconcagua! Sooo much mountain time planned...sooo little available vacation. :)

I remember my dad bitching about the summertime invasion of the 'Tex-urbans' (Chevy Suburbans with TX plates). Driving 20mph over Monarch Pass, acting like they expected their vehicle to fly off the edge at any moment...friggin' flatlanders!

I dunno. I like Occam's Razor for this one...as a former (and future, hopefully) denizen of the Rockies I'd love to feel like my beloved mountains are special, but this feels like it is reaching a bit far.

You'll also need to be able to run uphill in a cramped cave at amazing speeds whilst wearing said costume. Sorry- CGI just got cut out of the budget in favor of more Edward.

I appreciate the sentiment of your comment, but Mir was nothing like the ISS. We put the Winnebago in space and now we have to use their Festivas (I prefer Yugo(s)) to get to it. How depressing.

As much as I love anything space-shuttle related, I never knew they recovered the SRBs from the ocean after each launch. I kept waiting for it to sink in the video...

I like where you and the zapan are going with this, but my thought is it would have to be one helluva powerful magnetic hotspot to bring in so many decent-sized meteors so precisely. I'm not saying it isn't possible- like you said: would be great if we could excavate and see if there is an abnormal amount of…

Wow seriously? Crimes against humanity: justified in 8 words or less? Or are you joking?

Hilarious!

As it applies to this particular movie, wouldn't the relationship be directly proportional?

That was my thought as well. If you lose gravity, not only will you lose the atmosphere (pretty quickly too) but the Earth would lose its cohesiveness, and if it were still spinning at all centripetal force would tear it apart in no time.

Because the suspension of disbelief in a Fantasy genre movie is already inherent for *anything* that might happen in the movie.

I'm not really sure that there would be much story after Object X got close enough to throw us out into space - the tidal forces involved would probably rip the Earth apart well before we even left the solar system...

And more random, hence more applicable.

Awesome. Your reference has put this book on my Kindle.