I do hope that at least a few Bothans died to bring us this information.

You're missing some implied quantifiers: in our reality, _some_ women are irresistible to _most_ men; what makes this science fiction is that it posits a world in which _all_ women are irresistible to _all_ men.

Those poor whales are going to be so disappointed when they get to wherever they're going and discover that it's not full of hawt skinnydipping scientists.

I'm no expert on fighting aliens, but standing around in a big huddle waiting to see if the dying critter has any famous last words looks like poor policy to me. If Tall-Dark-n-Handsome there happened to have some kind of communications device or even a fragmentation grenade on his/her/its person, the human resistance…

Top ten things not to say while at the Jurassic Park love hotel with your date:

Flowers for Algernon?

They stipulate photographs because the last time they ran this competition, someone sent them a dead sasquatch that had been kept in an unventilated warehouse over the summer. For not unconnected reasons, UPS no longer delivers to the io9 offices.

The books are blatantly racist ... except that every one of the various races of Mars has at least one virtuous character (where 'virtuous' is to be understood as "willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with John Carter/Carthorius/whoever and help him rescue one or more of his women from whoever has abducted them this…

The new technology looked like a winner, until an accidental bacterial spillage led to the formation of the Sahara Brick.

See: [on-the-cusp.blogspot.com]

Actually, it's a message from the Mars explorer robot "Spirit". If we had higher-resolution imagery you'd see that it reads "Want to go home now. Freezing my wheels off. Please arrange pickup." in letters several kilometers long.

(whistles, shifts nervously, looks around)

Young males are apparently the same no matter what species they belong to. Young male African elephants have reportedly been observed raping and killing rhinos (there's some debate about the raping part, but the killing has been confirmed).

This looks like an exact clone of '[downforeveryoneorjustme.com'] (also available at '[isup.me'),] which has been around since 2008.

"Brace yourself, Wolverine - we're about to get retconned again!"

There's two things going on here. Some camouflage aims at making things harder to detect by making them blend into their surroundings (think of ghillie suits, or battledress that mimics leaf patterns); dazzle patterns used on warships were intended to break up their outlines to make it harder to target them (the…

Contrary to what the "Law of Attraction" people will tell you.

The day that Brian Croucher replaced Stephen Greif as Space Commander Travis in "Blake's Seven" something beautiful died.

Religious thinkers who try to produce logical 'proofs' for the existence of God always slip in the undeclared axiom that the God whose existence they've just 'proved' is _their_ God. They leap straight from "See, there's a Greatest Being, logic says so" to "Oh, and by the way, that Greatest Being wants you to stop…

"My experts tell me it's a pyramid." — Charles Bishop Weyland