there are empty newly developed city blocks, not cities. that's the image journalists you read are trying to project. that abandoned fake eiffel tower town, is about the size of 4-5 city blocks, same goes for the "German town" near Hongqiao station in Shanghai. what they don't say is that surrounding those areas…

Humanity never had an overpopulation problem.

The good news is that this map shows that the US can handle plenty of population growth. The better news is that thanks to decades of anti-urban policy, most of our cities are very underpopulated, and can be redeveloped to handle growth.

Hold on, let me put on my tin foil hat.

I've always been baffled by people complaining about overcrowding. Step outside of the major metropolises and the nation is practically empty. Almost any roadtrip will show you hour after hour of small towns, farmland, and empty fields and forests. You're only feeling crowded by your neighbors because you want to live…

Wow it's almost as if America and Australia have only existed as nations for a couple of hundred years whereas China has been around for several thousand.

You mean like there is no chance in hell to be run over by US tanks in Panama or Irak, or burried alive in the desert? Or Afghani people getting crushed by russian tanks? Or all the warsaw pact uprisings crushed by tanks in the street? In what kind of world are you living in? This was China, after the Cultural…

ive always felt that photo shows more of the humanity of the soldiers in the tanks than anything else. because to be honest, they guy was taking NO risk, there was never a chance in hell he'd be run over.

surprisingly low according to what standards? lets assume you're talking about China here and not like those other people who wants to compare China with USA... are you talking about Beijing or Shanghai? or even secondary cities like Hangzhou or Tianjin? maybe even industrial cities like Dongguan or Shijiazhuang?

so as long as US costs of living is high, every other country should be just as expensive otherwise it's human rights abuse?

Yiwu, where low-paid workers in 600 factories manufacture 60-percent of the world's Christmas decorations. Many of them work for about $1 a day.

Spider-Man is popular enough of a character that I'm sure it would work, but it seems like the sort of thing that is made for confusing mainstream audiences.

I honestly have to disagree with you on Garfield, I personally never thought he was a good Spider-Man (though this comes from seeing the first ASM) coming off as bit too stalkery and smarmy for my tastes.

Cos Stark programmed him with a fabulous subroutine.

There are a couple of light saber resistant materials in the SW universe... Not many, but they were necessary to make some opponents without lightsabers a bit more worthy...

Nobody credibly lauds Blizzard for its innovation or originality. It's their characteristic polish that has made them great, and this is no exception.

Everyone knows what a "scientist" is, but I agree I don't think I've ever seen a job title that included it. Something like "Senior researcher for exobiology emeritus" would have been better. Or "Lead archivist for propulsion and metallurgy, Ret."

Tell a lie long enough and you start to forget it was a lie.

If you tell the same story long enough, even you start to believe it.

So this guy's entire story hinges on blurry pictures of sci-fi paintings and Walmart aliens. Seems legit.