Insert obvious joke about reading the article ... tomorrow.
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Ironic, when you consider that, in their normal state, cannonballs are inert. Who'd have guessed that leaving them underwater for a few hundred years would transform them from solid shot to exploding shells?
The Twitter announcement calls it "space opera's campiest movie". Is it really campier than "Barbarella"?
The text crawl is accompanied by what sounds suspiciously like a typewriter. I'm not sure who thought this would be a cool SF effect, but I'm glad to know that somewhere in the dark galaxy someone is still pounding it out on an old-fashioned Remington.
@Murray Hewitt: Coincidence? I think not ...
I'm holding out for the sequel, in which Grizzlybearantula goes head to head with his deadly rival Polarbearnaconda. Whoever wins, we're confused.
@atrus123: More likely, when our probe finally arrives at Proxima Centauri, they'll just shake their heads and go "There's a much easier way to do that, you know. Just take a shortcut through the 11th dimension. Hardly takes any energy at all. What, you didn't know about that? Zarquon's breasts, we knew you guys were…
Based on present-day technology and rates of progress, he's predicting a Centauri probe is probably about 450 years out. I wonder what someone extrapolating from the technology of 1520 would have given as the likely first date for a moon-landing? (assuming that John Wilkins' plan to visit the moon in a chariot drawn…
You'll never get me up in one of those things.
In other news, primate scientists have recently discovered what appear to be the complete works of Shakespeare, neatly-typed on banana leaves.
Which reminds me ... has anyone heard from Tom from Myspace lately? With all his friends, it'll be a miracle if he isn't dead already.
Did they use regular placebo, or new Extra-Strength?
@Zuldim: *Romantic Comedy Voice*
Distracted by his new iPorn 3D retinal projector, PC Smith never heard the micro-copter until it landed on his hat.
Will there be any sparkling?
Cue first "You see, global warming is a natural phenomenon that's entirely outside our control" statement from someone with a vested interest in doing nothing in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
I really don't want to be around when we reach Peak Air.
@Lamar Henderson: while it may not be spelled out in the theory, the risk of meeting even a microscopic piece of matter coming the other way could make high-velocity travel 'non-survivable'.
@Krakenstein: You didn't read the article carefully enough. You might attract dorm girls ... but you might also attract female rats.
"Hey, Znorl, look down there."