The first one seemed tough at first, but then as soon as I thought of it, it seemed very simple. I realized you would need a 0 and a 6 to get the 1 and 12. But then I started to think, 6+5=11, 6+4=10, etc. So that covers 7-12. And the 0 covers 1-6. To make sure it’s evenly distributed, you have one die choose 1-6, and…

It’s the Nexus, everyone blow up stars to redirect it, so we can all escape into bliss

1. That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.

The Spore Drive project was something Stametz was working on last season, but Book blew it up. The issue was getting someone else who could control it like Stametz does with his Tardigrade DNA, without forcing people to become mutants to do it.

Percy Hynes White, who played Xavier is not returning for season 2.

She was often depicted as a woman with stars all over her body as she arches over her brother, the Earth god Geb.

Ook.

Shows tend to get better in a second season because most of the first season is being written before any actors are cast, let alone before the way an actor plays a character is set. They are written based on the ideas of the show runner(s). Once you see how the actors play off each other, you can write to capitalize…

The DS9/Babylon 5 thing is a lot murkier than people seem to acknowledge or understand.

The Horsehead Nebula has long been my favorite nebula. Glad to see Webb taking a glance its way.

My 7 year old daughter was straight up crying when they started moving out. Maybe they thought moving the characters would be too traumatizing for, let’s face it, the actual target demographic.

My wife and I were flying to Vegas last year. The plane we were supposed to fly on was stuck in Minneapolis due to bad weather. Because the weather was out of the airline’s control, it was not something they had to do anything for us for. AS we watched the day drain away, and our connecting flight took off without us…

My local theater already did this. They’ve been showing classic movies for a while now, and they did LOTR, with each movie showed for one day, but they repeated the cycle for two weeks. I tried to get my 11 year old daughter to get interested in watching them with me, but I was unsuccessful.

And after that small, little Affair business.

While it is easy to laugh at the overly ambitious designs, this is a sign that MBS recognizes that oil will not prop up his country (and family) forever, and so they need to diversify. Making Saudi Arabia a destination for tourism and even getting more people to move there is his attempt at doing that.

This may be the last great land-based telescope we get. From here on out, it probably makes more sense to build telescopes on the moon or have them in orbit of Earth or the moony. Musk ain’t gonna slow down with the Starlinks, and Amazon is right behind him.

An Urban Archipelago is precisely how I think it would play out. Neal Stephenson actually includes this in one of his books, where cities are where liberals tend to live, and as long as they stay on interstate highways, they are fine, but if they leave the highways, they need escorts to get them through a world full…

Mars has a 24.62 hour day or 24 hours and 37 minutes. In the Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson had a “slip time” at midnight to cover this gap. To my mind, it just makes more sense to use a “24 hour clock” that just goes to 24:37 before getting to 0:00.

For humans, it would make no difference, but for computers trying to communicate, even small amounts can cause issues.

How does it know the right place to go? GPS? If you type my address into GPS, it takes you to the house three up from mine. I’d hate to have my drone delivery dropping on my neighbors’ lawns.