"(but not lesbians)"

Let Joe Johnston have his Boba Fett movie, already.

Efficiency.

"...and yet, they won't recognize a situation where they simply have no data, one way or the other."

Yeah "thousands of generations" almost seems to old for there to have been droids. I'd love to see the flashbacks on that one...

No. The author of this piece described it as "inexplicable" so I'm trying to work it back around to "explicable."

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"As amusing as it is to imagine humans constantly doing bad impressions of each other — and let's be honest, this is humans we're talking about, the impressions will be bad — that actually might not be the best comparison."

Saint Nicholas was Greek. So.

I love the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Everything I read about it says that it is neither marsupial nor placental, but rather Meridiolestida. Nothing says what that means.

"When my sister was six years old, she was attacked, by three Muggle boys. They'd seen her practicing magic, spying through the back garden hedge: She was a kid, she couldn't control it, no witch or wizard can at that age. What they saw, scared them, I expect. They forced their way through the hedge, and when she…

It's interesting what he says about not being able to go too dark in a kid's story. I'm looking back at kids' stories I've read and about how themes and implications that struck me as a kid take on a new meeting when they're revisited, or how I've noticed when an author implies or nods to something that are horrific.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks her body looks amazing.

My favorite subtextual reading is the one where Ender is Hitler.

Warm enough to sustain Earth life, right? i.e. Warm enough to sustain life we would immediately recognize as life because it is similar to life here?

All of the other responses are absolutely right...but the really important reason no one calls them buggers anymore is because of what "bugger" means in British slang.

Ever read "Many Waters" by Madeline L'Engle? It's not exactly what you're talking about, but I think it'd be up your alley as fuck.

The top image is a short-eared elephant shrew. The adult image is a black-and-rufous elephant shrew.

As long as you unlock all the lightsaber wielding characters and only use them, Masters of Teras Kasi could look and be pretty fun.