Ah, now I see what you mean. Apocryphal in the sense of "not canonical" rather than "untrue". My bad.

No they came in around the second season or so.

Dunno, you used the wrong word so I honestly don't know what you meant. Abominable? Apocalyptic? Anticlimactic? Apoplectic? Avuncular?

Peter was replying to SecretBastard, not to me. Either that or he's a time traveler.

However, Ansari and Stevens both acknowledge today that the part should have gone to an Indian actor

So… doesn't that mean he actually did a great job, and was not an insulting stereotype

public domain movies

I guarantee you that someone on the internet will pay you money for that, but you really don't want to think about who.

Probably would anyway, but it's good to feel useful, eh?

MST3K fans: while you're backing their kickstarter, why not take some of that cash and make a donation to Public Knowledge, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or another organization that supports copyright reform? Because if DBoonsGhost is right, it's your congressman's fault that MST3K is off the air.

I would pay good money for Rifftrax Jurassic World.

Is there a Geneva Convention for online discussions? Because I'm pretty sure a forum bomb like this qualifies as a war crime.

Basic problem is there's just too many of us: there's no way all of us can do something without it inevitably causing massive consequences, whether it's "looking at orcas" or "driving to work" or "eating".

The radiation doesn't come from inside Jupiter, it comes from high-energy particles spiraling around in Jupiter's magnetic field. Some areas of the moons do get more radiation than others, but nowhere is completely safe unless you find a canyon or something to hide in. And you're right that Jupiter's super-thick…

I'd go with "in".

No shortage of know-how, we're just short on cash.

You'd think, but Jupiter's radiation is *really* nasty. Recent designs for missions to Europa have all concluded that it's easy to design a spacecraft that will survive the 3-6 year trip out to Jupiter, but even with radiation hardening it's going to get cooked in a couple of months once it gets to Europa. So the…

Serious science answers to your idle daydreaming questions:

Yeah, I know. And I'm not trying to say that Venus cloud cities wouldn't be awesome, I was just nitpicking on "almost breathable": having the right pressure and temperature is just the start. Car exhaust has a pressure and temperature similar to Earth's atmosphere, on the Venus scale of things, and it's mostly CO2,…

Shit, Dubya announced we were going back to the moon, and nobody took him seriously even for the duration of his press conference.