Lockheed and Raytheon are the contractors for the U.S. winterover operations. Though the bulk of the research is done via funding agencies like NSF who gives grants to universities, you're made a contractor so things like detailed physicals can be done. Since you'll be stuck for a winter down there, you really don't…

Grey's Anatomy: Yes

Well it is Charlottesville, the place that seems to think continuing discussions of security of the Downtown Mall that are just veiled bitching that there are black people who hang out on the Mall are okay and the racial segregations of Johnson vs Jackson-Via elementary schools are just fracking spiffy. So I'm not…

But if it happened once, I doubt the words out of your mouth would be "I'll pay if only you don't call animal control" like the other dog's owner in this story. You sound like one of the decent people who would do an "OMG, I can't believe this happened" then offer to pay the vet bills.

Make the complaint to animal control, that he's pulling that crap means he's already had a complaint against him and the dog :-(

Nope he was calling the spacecraft a she. This has actually been a problem in the greater community, there's a certain group that refers to all the spacecraft as "She" including the space shuttles using the argument that "Ships are always female!" Of course it's telling that the use of she and her always seems to pop…

Unfortunately he was recently picked to be project scientist which is the science head of the mission. I'm aware that it caused some issues- his background is in planetary auroras and not comets at all, which isn't really what you want as the mouthpiece of the mission to accurately convey the science to the public.

So I'm actually a comet scientist who was up at a planetary science meeting at 1am to see this shit. He bought the shirt custom and got it about a week ago as per his Twitter. ESA's Twitter had a message of support for this horrible shirt on Twitter, but the deleted it when the flames got too hot. Unfortunately the…

Eww Fitz, please stop talking. And Olivia if you were there in person I could only wish you'd punch him in the face. Ick.

That damned Benedict Cumberbatch interview today has been pure torture. Again like what I could Jake doing on this show.

You have just described my marriage. Except the sex didn't result in orgasms and that's why I haven't had it for 5ish years. Hence me saying that Jake is so much better- think of the all night screaming in pleasure.

Olivia, stop seeing Fitz in sex dreams. Jake is so much better.

Oh KWGN, you always were the amateur station in the Denver area.

They totally undermined our superintendent such that she retired early (http://www.denverpost.com/portal/news/ci…) and then they hired this new guy who had already run another school district into the crazy.

Well, so that's actually the problem! The superintendent from DougCo got moved over to Jeffco last year after the new school board got voted in. They pissed off our old superintendent so much with their undermining behavior that she retired early and they immediately turned around and hired the dude who was running…

At least you didn't say Wheat Ridge :-)

And though you didn't ask, but did mention it: Sadie Hawkins is normally around Valentine's day, but unlike Homecoming or Prom, it's traditional for the girls to ask the guys out.

Actually, I was thinking that having Olivia in the same black and white as the men was a subtle nod to a lack of power differential between her a the men in politics etc.

Yeah, the end of the last episode of the season teased a new African American woman who it appears was the daughter of Richard & Ellis that was given up for adoption.

OMG yes. Actually it's worse - at an outreach event this summer that was just DC area NASA center employees & their families, I had a woman go off on me about the Moon landings being faked, and how MRO had taken pictures of alien habitats on Mars complete with apartments blocks etc and put them out on the web, and…