@houser: I'm not sure that on a physical collision course the gas giant is dense enough to rip apart a rocky planet of somewhat comparable size. The rocky planet might not have enough escape velocity to emerge from the center though, that's an interesting take. I wonder if that's a planetary phenomenon we could…

Criterion is awesome and I am bummed I missed this sale!!!!

@commentotron: I imagined that if the Earth's rotation was stopped on a dime, (somehow), then the energy transfer would be enough to throw everything on the surface into orbit, (as if gravity had stopped, because it wasn't nearly strong enough to hold everything down).

What would happen if a gas giant and a rocky planet shared an orbit, and eventually tried to collide?

@Prismatist steers with his right foot: I'd guess since their star exerts an equal gravitational force on both planets it essentially cancels out, leaving the two planets' mutual gravitational attraction, however small in comparison, to eventually draw them towards each other.

Or just wring your sponge after each use. 80-90% of the water goes, and it dries very quickly regardless of its orientation.

@Eileen Lopez: Great replies. Thanks :)

Also a great idea for those of us who output our computer video to a 32"+ flatscreen TV.

Why does #5 load Little Miss Sunshine instead of that bad-ass wallpaper of a man turned away from his desk, staring into a ginormous sun? :-(

@ZoetheBitch: Looks like a dalek prototype to me.

@ZanipoloLebron: ford revolutionized and eventually modernized assembly line manufacturing.

What these people really need is a good set of prosthetic hands, with never-seen-before fingerprints.

Yes and I still went there! Didn't change Dune's a book license, and C&C was way better.

This is more of a laser sink or capture, isn't it? I imagined an anti-laser to SHOOT beams of DARK: a highly focused photon-annihilator ray that causes dark spots where it gets pointed.

A mutation is a *change* in a genomic sequence. If Dr Emilio is correct then there was no such change; rather, it was an incredibly high selection pressure which spread an already-existing gene throughout their gene pool. The article on the other hand sounds like it's suggesting the toxins from the pollutants have…

So, gameplay-wise, is this to Civilization what Dune was to C&C?

The Sentinel looked totally gnarly, but I wish it didn't have a base so it could be repositioned.

In addition to being extended in space, the models persist through time as well.

I hope Obama doesn't plan to develop conventional HSR lines, because the future is Maglev. If the US wants to be an innovator, their goal should be operate closer to 350 mph. At that speed there will be significant cause for Americans to adopt it as the primary public mode of national transportation.