I bet it very much is. Blue pigment was notoriously rare up until the industrial age (I think the Chinese, The Inca, and the Egyptians each had an expensive variant) and they didn't drop in price until pretty recently.

I would be interested in seeing a chart of the cost of various pigments over this same time period. Is it possible the prominence of orange in paintings may be related to its cost compared to blue as much as any artistic reason?

Physics man, learn them.

Physics doesn't work that way.

There isn't enough fuel to put NH in orbit around Pluto, it's traveling too fast. I don't think there was a powerful enough rocket that could reach Pluto so quickly and carry enough fuel to put a spacecraft in orbit.

Does Ash/Evil Ash count from Evil Dead? Sort of parasitic twin, but then they separated...

I wonder wonder wonder...

And no, the peacekeeper wars don't count. The show had just been blown wide open and had AT LEAST a couple more seasons to go...

Or just THE ENTIRE DAMN STATION:

Aaaaaah! Nature is terrible. The more I know about it, the more terrible it is.

So, what I gather from this is that science has proved Platypuses are made when ducks and beavers mate.

Maybe the most egregious example is when the GCPD Internal Affairs department rules the witness' death — remember, he was stabbed in the back multiples times with a giant ice pick — a suicide. I know the GCPD is supposed to be corrupt, but that's a disbelief-shattering level of absurdity that is too astonishing to…

Funny how when stuff like this happens, what ever person or company seem to always get away with slap on the wrist. It would be nice to see some stricter and more punitive reactions. Like liquidating the responsible parties assests to pay for the clean up, animal care and recovery, and the fines for letting this…

You forgot the biggest one: if the ship should lose power for any reason, we're told that the ship will within hours plummet into the atmosphere and burn up, and sometimes this comes close to happening. Unlike any other known spacecraft, the Enterprise requires active power to remain in orbit. Perhaps "standard…

That is not at all what Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions actually says. Risk and incidence are two different things. From Are Two Thirds of Cancers Really Due to Bad Luck?:

Just gonna leave this here:

"The more time and effort that people put into anything - no matter how useless, dysfunctional, or downright stupid it may be - the harder it is for them to walk away... We all justify the time, effort, suffering, and years and years that we devote to something by telling ourselves and others that there must be…

You got it man, he played Bruce like a stunted rich boy, a man stuck at the age his parent's were killed, just a big 'boy' really. He played Batman like it was a psychosis given form. It was perfect, even if Burton's movies were not