Umm.... sorry guys, but China has already had rocket-based casualties. Intelsat 708 destroyed an entire village when its Long March carrier rocket flipped over on takeoff in 1996.

Given how annoying he was as Connor, I'm amazed that Vincent Kartheiser has been such a solid actor in Mad Men. Although to be fair, Pete Campbell is also a really annoying character.

Wouldn't asteroid mining theoretically be a better use of space resources than lunar mining? Most rare-earth elements came from asteroids to begin with, and even a small asteroid (one mile diameter) contains about $20 trillion dollars worth of said metals. Whereas the moon doesn't necessarily have all of these…

Heh, my hat is a boomerang, your argument is invalid.

I just glitched in my pants

What's disappointing is that flapping winds up and down isn't even how birds fly. Their wings actually move in a complicated figure-eight fashion.

Alien strip-miners. Or, ya know, just regular old alien methane-breathers

My god, the man HAS NO CHIN

@Charliehorse: You, sire are MADE OF WIN

I prefer the whiteness better, frankly. The paint in some way actually distracts from the intricacy and detail of the carvings themselves.

If the virtual child simulator is great, then it is a victory for pedophiles everywhere (except in China where consoles are banned).

@Walking Eye!:The Business-Casual Gamer: Well, in all fairness, you probably don't have to worry about holding your boobs in. But the stilettos are still very impractical.

As a I reader, I will suspend my disbelief to the point where I can accept supernatural creatures, but I will never accept the cleavage-heavy combat uniform.

@Cin: I never said it was only Marvel and DC. Your fail has been refuted. Plus, RECOGNITION OF HUMOR/SARCASM FAIL. (in addition, proper capitalization fail, and also only-talking-in-terms-of-fail fail, both on my end)

Superman and the Hulk in the same panel WHAT. FICTIONAL UNIVERSE FAIL.

@Jellybish: Good thing. David Tennant = slight smell of ham.

Of course, this assumes that countries that will eventually have the power to field military and civilian infrastructure into space will also give a crap what they promised to the U.N. back when the best they could do was two guys and a flag.

Actually, this sounds a great deal like Dan Simmons's Ilium/Olympos diad. Except that the world isn't taken over by insane gods and things. But yes - the apocalypse has taken place, and it is unclear, there are replica cities, and a large conspiratorial plot. (I smell lawsuit!*)

Since when is a vampire/werewolf rivalry "classic"? When exactly did they begin to share fictional universes and have rivalries? Because yeah, that literary trope is common now, but how far does it go back?

@Inphoarius: Unless TIME TRAVEL.