Seriously? It is so, so much easier to believe that this was, say, the result of test audiences reacting negatively to women dying in exploding space-ships or something, as others have suggested, rather than to argue that it's a total coincidence that every scene that featured a female pilot just happened to also get…

... 77 years. Sounds about right, but after reading all the other replies here, I am feeling sorely left out!

You put far too much faith into vitamins and supplements. They do not have nearly the health benefit that people used to think they did years ago. In fact, taking too much can be harmful.

I think you mean "improv", not "improve."

On a moderately serious note, I'm sure this wonderful hypothetical future of interchangeable car bodies would also come with a wide variety of bases, including very small "city car" sorts.

It's like you two are talking past each other. :P Torchinsky is talking about the technology's future potential, and Vash is talking about present-day limitations.

IT'S EVERYWHERE! It's at the top of the article! It's in the side-bar! For a while it was in the links at the bottom of the article, too! NO ESCAPE!

What this really reminds me of is cell phone cases. That's an industry where 3D printers are already making a difference — you can already have a pretty custom case for your cell phone 3D-printed to order.

Do you have any idea how many muscles it takes to smile? Ugh, so much effort...

I'd say this is actually worse than what it was before. At least in the past they were honest about the "LFL" being all about sex appeal and a cheap gimmick. Now they're pretending that it's all about serious athletics. It's just that, you know, the players just HAPPEN to all be conventionally sexy women wearing next…

... The heck? I'm thinking that this article needs to be fully re-written in a heavily sarcastic tone. Nothing is changing at all. "One of the most significant victories in the modern war on sexism" indeed, lawl. Call me when NFL players start running around in briefs, shoulder pads, and nothing else...

I used to use Proactiv years ago. Though I don't remember having this much trouble with the company (maybe they were better about customer service back then?) I stopped using their product when I realised I could just buy benzoyl peroxide soap in any drug store that will do the exact same job for a fraction of the…

Thank you, this is an awesome article. :) I love the Soyuz, and it's nice to see it get the praise it deserves, and all the replacement ideas are very interesting to read about.

The name is spelled correctly in the third paragraph of the article, indicating that this was just a case of an innocent typo.

It would take just one civilization willing to bear with the inconvenience of travelling between stars at slower-than-light speed to potentially invalidate that, though. And if there are huge numbers of alien civilizations out there, you'd expect that sooner or later, one like this would come along. If there aren't…

For the last parts of your argument — that we can't assume aliens would have any interest in visiting Earth — I think we run into that non-exclusivity problem again. It would only take *one* alien civilization deciding to visit us for any reason at all (anything from wanting to contact us directly, to simply sending…

I think you still need an earlier Great Filters for this explanation to work. If there are no Great Filters, and intelligent life is fairly common throughout our galaxy, it'd mean there would have to be a fair number of really, really old technological civilizations out there — a large enough number that at least some…

Well, no, the whole argument is that for chance to explain the Paradox, you'd need Great Filters to game the odds. If intelligent life arises fairly frequently throughout the cosmos, the odds are in favour of alien contact. It only becomes unlikely if technologically advanced alien life is rare to begin with, and…

I think a lot of this is covered by the "non-exclusivity problem" bit, though. It'd take just *one* technologically advanced civilization to decide that space colonization *is* worth it for whatever reason, and poof, there goes the whole argument. If intelligent life is fairly common, you'd expect that sooner or later…

The article addresses this — it'd take just one alien civilization that *does* want to explore and see the universe to break this argument. And the galaxy is ancient enough that it's not unreasonable to suppose that many different civilizations have already had time to appear — if only a few appeared so far, some…