Late the party, bunky, and it's "Calculus."

Duh.

It's a beautiful thing, isn't it?

And if the word "Public" is used anywhere in the story, check it once more for good measure.

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You, sir or madam, are a literalist.
There is little or nothing from which a literalist cannot suck the joy. Conversation become riductio ad absurdem quibbling over the placement of punctuation, the validity of fonts and the defense of the indefensible through circular logic.
In short, you are precisely the kind of…

Absolutely. No problem there. The first bird to lay a chicken egg was not a chicken.

Indeed, yes. But to assert that recognizing a flaw in our methods of description (or perhaps perception) can transcend reality is sophistry.
I would suggest, as a test of my assertion, that anyone believing the Arrow paradox is a worthwhile demonstration of physics should step off a very tall building and furiously…

Esther, It is stuff like this that falls into the category you asked about a little earlier: Science that annoys the crap out of me.
We know that arrows do fly through space. The inability to "define an instant" does not mean that an instant doesn't exist, it means that our method of defining is flawed.
Upper level…

Yeah, I suppose it would be a lot easier to control a bunch of teens with sex and pretty clothes.
The movie upped the deadline for audience identification purposes, I suspect.

Re: Logan's Run retread:

Agreed, and doubled.

"because Superman became a told of the man"

Sid & Marty Krofft want a word with you.

Really, I think the winner is Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, what with the Muckers and all, but there are elements of Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons" in the world of today, as well.

I agree. I think it was two-thirds of a good movie. If they had just dropped it after Wolverine snikts Shingen, it would have been a very good movie. They could have dropped the idiotic Viper character (who added zip-all to the movie), and left old man Yashida well and truly dead.
If they needed more run-time, they…

How much NASA money was involved in that italicization of the word "did"?

He has "abilities."

He also wants to create a girlfriend "for Cylon."

Cities of the Red Dawn, William S. Burroughs' other WTF novel.