As I recall, in the later (and quite awful) Dune books, did it not turn out that the Axlotl "tanks" were

Then we shall applaud their ghost writers and move along.

Precisely koorecked.

Not enough weapons. Should be bristling with knives, stars, bow&arrows, lance, and perhaps a kite (to compensate for not having a jetpack).

Check your math please:

Nothing so much as nerds craving an obscure super to obsess over so they can display their encyclopedic knowledge of his arc, argue over which Ant Man is best, how big an idiot Hank Pym is, which Pym iteration is best, and so forth.

RE: Beasts of the Southern Wild and "the emergence of once mythical beasts, the aurochs"

Agreed. The jury is still out on the ancestor of the cetacean clan, and until there is better evidence than the few bone scraps cobbled together currently serving as "proof", bald statements such as

Very good! You beat me to it. I think a cloud of nanites with an apetite for chitin would be a good solution, and one that the bugs probably could not adapt to.

Need a t-shirt that reads "DISNEY WAS RIGHT!"

And give them drugs so they are happy with their menial existence. We could call it, I dunno ... SOMA, and give it catchy slogans like, "A dram is better than a damn!"

Amazing how many of these "people and companies pushing humanity forward" are dead.

Great article. I would add the rule that, if there is a part of the character that is known outside the genre (like the APPEARANCE of the character, Mr. Reynolds), then it is very unwise to retcon the basic design of the character, setting, or what have you.

Have to wonder about the designers who came up with that one ... "let's design a helmet that makes our Judges crosseyed."

I find this works pretty well.

This is a human powered hovercraft. It is relying (to a large degree) on ground effect and fluid dynamics to achieve sufficient thrust.