I salute Cassini, our brave discoverer, and I will always honor its memory. I don’t care that it’s a machine. I’m just as sad as the NASA people.

Ever since I graduated college i’ve had anxious dreams about not being able to finish an exam before the end of the hour, or neglecting to start work on a research paper till the night before it’s due. (I’m 67.)

there is another intelligent form of life in the universe—very smart tardigrades. They seeded this planet with the smaller-brained kind that we are familiar with, to terraform the earth, from a tardigrade’s point of view. eventually they’ll come to claim our earth. We aren’t supposed to be here. Here you go, Roland…

She’s obviously not allergic to tigers.

Can you infect a dragon with grayscale? Just brainstorming.

The Flying Glove was my fave character.

It was supposed to be “unhand” not “I hand.” Lousy autocorrect.

I hand that woman, thou knave!

For me it’s asperger’s combined with depression. I’m also a transperson. Living in my gender of choice greatly reduced my depression, but it didn’t go away.

I’m a sucker for dystopian SF, especially if there’s a revolt in it. I also like space opera. My fave space opera is Star Wars, which is also dystopian.

Well, at least they’re burning a swastika too. That I can get behind. (My tongue is lodged firmly in my cheek.)

That was my first thought. I can understand the wingspan. I can understand the extra jet engines, but why are there TWO fuselages?

We in NC like to call the 12th district the I-85 district because it wraps around I-85 for much of its length. District 1 looks like a profile of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, complete with noodly appendages.

I suppose this means the trend of naming baby girls Katniss is over?

You’re right about the creepiness factor. That’s why I don’t miss them, especially the one where you wake up in the morning to find Burger King sharing your bed. Yikes.

More like District 13, I would think.

El is one of several words that means “God” in Hebrew. Kal-El’s (Superman’s) name means “everything belonging to God.” So the House of El would be “the house of God.” You’re probably wondering what all this has to do with Krypton. Well, the co-creators of Superman were Jewish.

When I was a kid, my brother and I were assured that the absence of a chimney was no problem. We’d simply leave the door unlocked for him!

Slightly off-topic, on the subject of the hexagon shape at Saturn’s north pole: When I see a six-sided cloud formation, I think of water ice crystals.

NC is a deep valley of humility between two towering mountains of conceit (SC and VA).