This doesn't really back up global warming predictions either, does it? This is far beyond the predicted temperature increases. If we draw an increasing line based on this, we'll all be boiling in a couple of generations, not that we should without knowing what caused it.

Maybe they were afraid the kids would drink it.

There's nothing wrong with pointing out that our actions are harming the environment and we should stop as quickly as possible. The predictions used to frighten people into action have been very specific quite often, and have done nothing really besides create even more skepticism. People previously thought of as…

0.o We must have watched two different films. There was nothing really different about the Hong Kong jaunt. Characterless generic henchmen, and the same sorts of action sequences as anywhere else. There was also nothing different about Batman. He uses fancy gear, beats up the bad guys, and disappears foiling the…

Most places seem to be that way, if not at first then in a knee-jerk way after a bajillion people move in from Whereveria. Granted, Japan perhaps more so, but heck, in the end a declining birthrate fixes that too. Eventually even nations like Saudi Arabia have a hard time keeping foreign workers in their place.

If anything is going to drive me away from this site it is seeing the word "Fat" over and over and over and over.

I wouldn't mention that in global warming conversations...

As the population declines in a reasonably prosperous nation openings are created for immigrants. You can't look at it like a closed system, Japan exports, and the more exports the more profits, and you need people on the low end of the totem pole making the stuff to export. So, in the long term it's a self…

As far as the "broader canvas" in the Dark Knight Rises blurb, I kinda hate that. I remember when the previous movie shifted to Hong Kong, I let out a sigh, I wanted to be back where the story was taking place. It displaced the audience without the journey actually meaning anything beyond fixing some artificial…

This is one of the main functions of UT Knoxville's corpse farm as well. [fac.utk.edu]

There's no such thing as numbers.

This is beyond optimistic. We need to be focusing on the various parts of space travel that we don't understand and addressing the health issues of long term space flight. I highly doubt we'll have this kind of stuff in a hundred years.

Before we can build anything of the sort we have to invent the materials to do so. At this point we have nothing that will do this. People point to all sorts of carbon nanotube blather but no one has yet made anything close to functional, even on the scale model scale that works in the real atmospheric environment.

When will all the snooty girls-only schools "adapt with the times"?

I hope that Kellogg's feels really bad about not pulling their advertising, and as penance sends us all a free supply their delicious Corn Flakes... their oh so delicious Corn Flakes...

Pretty good movie, too.