I reread Stewart's Earth Abides recently. The book starts of in the 1940's and I was amused after doing some math that the final scenes in the book take place in what would be the 1980's, but with the rusted remains of the 1940's still sitting around.

MIXING SCIFI AND VENTRILOQUISM: Achmed the Undead Terrorist uses a pair of Mars Attacks! eyes. It's true - Jeff talks about it in his autobiography All By Myselves.

Wingsuit=parachute.

I'm imagining Moonlight Sonata is being played by Saturn's rings as a record - the giant arm and needle is on the other side of the planet.

They better release this on DVD.

Indeed, if the Pacific Ocean had a massive patch as dense as it is in the canoe photo, it would actually be an easier problem to deal with. Environmental groups would be asking for donations to equip huge ships with nets to scoop up the trash and dispose of it.

Articles warned and warned about this all through the Potter craze. Unfortunately people are idiots.

Why are the aliens always the ones who have it together? It's just as likely they'll show up and say "Good heavens... you HAVEN'T nuked yourselves to oblivion... at all? Holy crap what are you doing right?"

Jackie Chan is awesome. If this is his last movie, make it a bang.

I read The Making of the Atomic Bomb a few years back. The book was a doorstopper, and incredibly boring in parts, but the interesting parts were absolutely fascinating.

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This will at least assure us electricity after it beings about the apocalypse.

It's not going to be long after we start to live on the moon that the scooping up of materials will change the look of the moon from the earth, and the big argument in the UN will be "preservation of the face of the moon".

I only watched the trailer. Looks interesting, I'll watch it. When does it premiere?

Agreed.

Bullshit science does not a bad series make. LOST's science was wonky, but it was very popular. I'll give this one a shot.

Sometimes my Android phone won't allow me to scroll down the mobile pages from io9. this was one of them - I'm assuming it's due to the multiple videos.

A very valid point.

*sulking*

I used to wish I had an overlay in my glasses when I was in school, back in the late 80's.