Holy shit - this is just a straight forward informative post explaining the answer to an interesting question. Well done.

I come for the epic space opera, I stay for the Anaander Mianaai jokes:

I’m surprised nobody (hasn’t appeared to in the comments, as far as I can tell) has mentioned the other “striking familiarity of the title”: That if you add up the years, months and nights, you get “One Thousand and One Nights,” aka “Arabian Nights” to some. (This is of course assuming that 3 out of 8 of the months…

This is so historically inaccurate. Everyone knows the Ancient Romans spoke with British accents.

Yes, but H. G. Wells was the original Social Justice Warrior in SF, and was looked on with much suspicion by the Sad Puppy Jules Verne. Why can’t we have realistic stories about shooting manned artillery shells at the moon, instead of all this class warfare stuff?

But H.G. Wells was a socialist who worked for human rights, so this is clearly the work of the secret SJW cabal to reward authors whose political views they agree with!

Seriously, you have to be a moustache-twirling Saturday morning cartoon villain to be against any form of justice.

I’m really not getting this new Grindr promo campaign.

“The literary quality of the cyberpunk genre is marginal at best, and its pretensions and tropes are quite ugly.

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I'll throw my hat in for the Campbell: 38 stories (including two domestic reprints and one Polish and one French reprint) and four poems published or accepted for publication since my first publication in magazines such as Lightspeed (cross-posted here on io9!), Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Also run an…

An untrainable, randomly violent Dachshund. So, a Dachshund?

A friend of mine has this Pitbull-Dachshund mix who is far less scary!

Everyone will want to adopt this dog once they realize that every time he opens his mouth a Pez candy comes out.

OK so perhaps this is a silly question but...wouldn't a bear vault be just fine if, instead of a tab, it had a combination lock built in? I mean, I know the bears are smart and all but instead of having a physical release, make it some kind of logical one. Wouldn't that keep the bears out and the people in (Assuming…

There is an obvious answer that no one is addressing.

Tony Stark has a whole company working for him, as does Batman. Stark may be a genius, but he still needs help in making it happen.

Gold coins, please. GOLD COINS. Not this fiat money.